Originally Posted by
windowtinter
so heres the deal, i work for a car stereo company we had a customer come in with an 04 coupe. we installed hid low beam kit with the 4700 caps in place to eliminate flicker, we also installe da single din radio with the correct harness all clean and professionally done. a few days after the install the customer calls and says that his locks stopped working the gas door is locked up and wouldnt open and of course the spoiler was acting crazy. we offered to look at the vehicle which we did. #7 fuse was blown and keept blowing after we put a new one in. we informed the customer (after some google search) that the bcm was probably toast. he had the car towed to two different shops the latter being the dealer. they diagnosed the problem as a bad bcm replaced it and all was good. the problem is that now the customer is expecting for us to pay for his tow bills and for the bcm and labor. there were no problems found in our work but the customer insists that it was our fault and took it to small claims court. So the question for you guys is how common are BCM problems with these cars and what is the most common source of the problem? Thanks in advance for any info that might just keep us from paying a almost $4000 lawsuit.
It's great that you are trying to do as much research as you can to prove that your shop didn't mess anything up, but reading your post it seems like it is coincidental that the BCM failed after the upgrades. You state that "a few days later" he started having problems and once that problem started, the fuse would blow immediately when the key was turned. Wouldn't it be safe to say that if your "mods" affected the car in a negative way, that the fuse would have blown as soon as he picked the car up from your shop, or at least within 24 hours? If he had it for a few days before it started acting up, who's to say HE didn't try to do something and messed it up or that is was just time for the BCM to fail? Sounds a little suspect to me. I'm all for the adage of "The Customer is Always Right" when you are in the service industry, but there is a limit to how far that goes once the customer takes possession of his property.
Just my take on the situation - hope it all works out for the best.
RL