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| - This review's a bit late. I had service done a while back. I had a Pioneer CarPlay system put in, as well as having my windows tinted.
I first want to say it pains me to leave a bad review. I sat there for hours talking with the owner, who seems like a good guy. I will be fair in the review.
The CarPlay system: I brought in my own head unit I picked up from Amazon. I called ahead to make sure they could handle it, and they said it wouldn't be a problem. It was a problem.
First, I guess they are not a "Pioneer shop". This means they don't work with a lot of Pioneer products, so some of this stuff is somewhat foreign to them. Also, the CarPlay system itself really seemed to confuse the installer, who ended up admitting he had never installed one before.
The end results was me sitting there for about 5 hours over the course of two days. There were times they tried to get me to leave with the system, but I'd point out a problem and they'd go back in.
To their credit, they did keep working and never once made mention to charging more. So bonus points for the work ethic. But in the end, it never did work right. And now almost nothing works. The XM antenna has come off in the back of the unit, the rear camera is no longer connected either. They mentioned it was tight fit in the back, so I'm guessing they crammed everything in and stuff started to come apart over time.
The CarPlay system works well, but I am also very unhappy they put an unrepairable hole in my center console. That wasn't cool.
The tint: I'd give that more starts. It looks good and functions well. It looks like a small area towards the top may be a little off, but it's so slight I sometimes feel I'm imagining it. So, good job on the tinting.
I'm disappointed and not looking forward to the added expense of taking my car elsewhere so I can pay to get fixed what wasn't done well the first time.
Update: I guess the owner feels I'm a bit at fault for waiting 8 months to post a review. But to be clear, just about everything connected my radio (Sirius, CarPlay, rear camera, etc...) stopped working about 2 months ago. So it had been about 6 months since everything stopped working. I simply haven't had the time to post. But I think 6 months is a fair time to expect everything to have kept working. And from the messages I'm getting on the unit, it looks like the cords have just come undone in the back of the box.
As for the specific issues on CarPlay; I never said CarPlay was a product from Pioneer. It's just iOS apps for car stereos and plenty of cars have it. What I said was that the installer had never hooked on up before, and that caused some delays in installing and required me to come back a couple times because he hadn't done it right.
As I said in the above review, the owner was nice enough, and I'm sure they have done good work for people in the past. My window tinting came out fine. But 6 months after they installed my head unit, everything went haywire. Two stars seems like a fair review.
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