Radioguy - banned trader

[murphyv310]

Originally Posted by Jamiewelch

Sean is a non uk seller , he lives in Canada? He's definitely not based in the UK himself

Absolutely Jamie.
This is of course where some of the problems can rear their heads.
You have little safety when buying from a seller outwith the EU, any issues and you have to keep praying it will be resolved. Since Jeff has a new career I do believe there is support from another person/business but is it well known or am I wrong?
I firmly believe there is an opening for a UK based company to do this but bear in mind it is like my trade dying, there are less and less cars of the type you can fit these head units to around. All car manufacturers have their own designs of headunits now and they get upgrades on every face lift they do, the after-market stuff is dying due to the umpteen variations needed now and older cars reducing in numbers.

[murphyv310]

Originally Posted by coab

I just bought a unit from ebay for my Focus. It was £170 and a perfect fit. Sat nav voice is quiet on max level and the radio reception can jump. Been onto the seller and they have given me a few things to try. Because I have purchased it through ebay and Paypal if this fix does not work i will return the unit via ebay.
These units are by in large cheap nasty units and no way would I buy one away from a site like ebay after reading all the faults and problems on here over the last few years.
No real comeback is there to be honest that can sort it quickly.

Agreed.
The thing is too folk don't understand the word repair. When I was employed in the "trade" I fixed countless Ford & Vauxhall car stereos, parts were easy as were manuals. In my 5 years in Sony again no issues with parts and service info. Today its dreadful, no doubt by our obsession with cheapness. We can do it here and 100 times better than any Chinese manufacturer. We give the back up and will supply parts and service for at least 7 years after a model is out of production.

I still have new parts for 60 and 70 year old radios and believe it or not It is easier to find bit for a 1960 Murphy TV than a 2 year old car headunit. Tells a tale doesn't it

[7T5]

Originally Posted by murphyv310

Agreed.
The thing is too folk don't understand the word repair. When I was employed in the "trade" I fixed countless Ford & Vauxhall car stereos, parts were easy as were manuals. In my 5 years in Sony again no issues with parts and service info. Today its dreadful, no doubt by our obsession with cheapness. We can do it here and 100 times better than any Chinese manufacturer. We give the back up and will supply parts and service for at least 7 years after a model is out of production.

I still have new parts for 60 and 70 year old radios and believe it or not It is easier to find bit for a 1960 Murphy TV than a 2 year old car headunit. Tells a tale doesn't it

A chap in Fife still fixes old car radios. Mate is getting his one sorted from his SD3 as soon as he can get it to him. I love getting stuff fixed, sick of this throw away culture now.

[murphyv310]

Originally Posted by 7T5

A chap in Fife still fixes old car radios. Mate is getting his one sorted from his SD3 as soon as he can get it to him. I love getting stuff fixed, sick of this throw away culture now.

Norman Raeburn from Leven. He is a very good friend of mine. Like Norman I'll look at older stuff as at least you have half a chance of repairing the item whereas the modern stuff has no service info or readily available parts. It's all board replacement now and no component level repairs that the likes of myself and Norman were trained to do, we diagnosed faults, a child can swap swap boards!!!

[7T5]

Originally Posted by murphyv310

Norman Raeburn from Leven. He is a very good friend of mine. Like Norman I'll look at older stuff as at least you have half a chance of repairing the item whereas the modern stuff has no service info or readily available parts. It's all board replacement now and no component level repairs that the likes of myself and Norman were trained to do, we diagnosed faults, a child can swap swap boards!!!

I'm sure that's the chap. My mate works for a dealership and they got him to fix something before. He mentioned an issued with the tape deck in his SD3 and Norman knew what the fault would be straight away.

[murphyv310]

Originally Posted by 7T5

I'm sure that's the chap. My mate works for a dealership and they got him to fix something before. He mentioned an issued with the tape deck in his SD3 and Norman knew what the fault would be straight away.

Hi.
Norman is a good bloke, one of the very few left doing any repairs in the trade, he is having a clearout and I'll be taking a couple of 50's Console 405 line TV's off him after Anne and myself are fixed sometime in the summertime.
Why not point some here with older sets to him, he still has a proper functional workshop unlike myself with my shed, although well enough equipped it is only a hobby now since I closed my own service department in 2006.
I would doubt he would be interested in the Chinese sets, like myself he has had so many problems with obtaining spares and info. The other place that did work again a good friend Bob Baird in Sorn Ayrshire is also closed, the main reason is Bob is his wife's carer who had a stroke and is now registered blind. It was also a good going business but latterly there was little work, Bob though was very much a man who would be insistent with importers who had no back up with spares and info, often though it was like hitting your head off a brick wall.

[Bogbrush82]

Bump.

Has anybody heard anything else about this? Did anybody ever get the parts that they ordered? Only asking because my MG7 lights still haven't arrived yet.

[gazcaz]

Where is he i have emailed him with issues with my unit playing up and nothing not happy !!!!!!!!!!

[Walter]

From when first joined this club looked at these Chinese sets but opted for well known brand at same costs, still don't know why Canadian/Chinese ever was popular onsite

[Ravinder]

Originally Posted by murphyv310

Norman Raeburn from Leven. He is a very good friend of mine. Like Norman I'll look at older stuff as at least you have half a chance of repairing the item whereas the modern stuff has no service info or readily available parts. It's all board replacement now and no component level repairs that the likes of myself and Norman were trained to do, we diagnosed faults, a child can swap swap boards!!!

I think I’ve heard of him. Leven is only 15-20 min from me so If you need anything collected etc let me know. Id be happy to help.