TLicense Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 My dad has just bought a '03 Toyota Celica (the 140bhp job) He's never had any decent cars, so this is a real first for him, and he's well chuffed with it. As a fathers day present I thought I would get him something for the car, after some thought I came up with the idea of getting the cd multichanger fitted for the factory head unit. The cost was £250, with over £100 fitting. Quite expensive, but he's a good dad so I thought sod it, and ordered it all up, and it was fitted yesterday by Toyota. Now bearing in mind this is a part supplied (although manufactured by Sony) and fitted by Inchcape Toyota in Kidlington, the fitting kit consisted of the necessary leads to hook it up to the headunit, and wait for it... 2 strips of velcro to hold it in place. FFS. You've got to be having a laugh surely? I mean, which engineer thought, OK so we've got to hold this thing in place, errmm, I've got an idea.....velcro. This has massively shocked me. I can't believe that there's a single bolt or bracket used to fix this. It's simply velcro'ed to the bottom of the boot. Toyota -----> :thumbdown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragal Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 No way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Sounds like my RLTC install -Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sakura Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 So - they charged you £100 to stick the autochanger down with two strips of velcro, and to plug it in to the back of the head unit? No wonder most people complain about main dealer rip-offs. How long can that have taken? Perhaps they have a new charge for "thinking" time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARTIN R Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Thats bloody awfull :thumbdown . In terms of installation how can they justify a cost like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLicense Posted June 23, 2005 Author Share Posted June 23, 2005 I think the labour may have been more, not sure, my dad insisted that he pay for that. But yes, that's what they did. My dad thought he was taking the piss, but then he showed him the part number for the "Toyota fixing kit". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 yeah but shirely they've had to pull up the carpet and what not to get the cable from the headunit into the boot? Velcro sounds okay to me.. it's the running of that cable that must be a ballache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLicense Posted June 23, 2005 Author Share Posted June 23, 2005 Velcro, is IMHO, not an engineered solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syed Shah Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 Going the way of the Germans perhaps. Get a name for build quality, then spunge off it for the coming years. (Anyone who has had a new merc knows what I mean) Jap cars definately had better build quality in the 90s, all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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