G.C. Mobile Auto Electrics - www.gcautoelectrics.co.uk
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G.c. Mobile Auto Electrics Cost Me £55 In Just 22 Minutes
G.C. MOBILE AUTO ELECTRICS
DO NOT USE THIS PERSON AS I LOST £55 IN 22 MINUTES
I was very disappointing with this service as I had asked for a permanent live from fusebox for stereo head unit (yellow cable) as stereo was not holding memory which should really be a simply job for a professional charging £55 per hour, a feed was taken from car harness which took 22 minutes to complete at a cost of £55, I complained that after 30 minutes stereo was still losing its memory so i was no further forward but £55 down, I was told that the (brand new) stereo must be faulty but if i wanted to run a cable to the fusebox it would cost me an additional extra 1 hours work - another £55 to complete the job I had originally asked for. There was no way I was going to pay £110 to have one wire fitted. I will now contact Visa to inform them.
Hi
The unit won't be faulty, the connection the electrician has used for the permanent wire won't have been a correct permanent. It will be a wire that is temporarily permanent then turns itself off after a certain time as most cars now have as a prevention to running the battery flat. Most times these cables are run to the battery so as stereo memory is held .
Demand to get your money back.
The problem you are experiencing is a very common one on all post 2005 BMW cars. The vehicles can bus network shuts down all non essential circuits after 20-30 minutes. The permanent live that your electrician has connected to is wrong. We use only two places for this yellow memory wire,
The fuse box (trial and error) or the battery (guaranteed).
WRONG as 2 different AV professionals both said that he had wired it up wrong - to a live feed which cuts off after 30 mins which most modern cars now have and he should have known this if he was good as he is suppose to be the professional, and so I had to do the job myself and I wired the permanent cable to the battery and all is working perfectly including stereo holding it's memory. It's funny cause the electrician also wrongly said that it could be the new stereo which was faulty, again WRONG.
this tells me that the guy did what you asked of him , its the stereo thats the problem.
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