Technicar

The real test for any company is when things don’t go the way you had hoped. My husband and I wanted to install a Bluetooth upgrade to a 2006 E350 Mercedes. Mercedes dealers will no longer perform the upgrade and referred us to Technicar, who have a very good reputation. To make a very long story short, the end result was unsatisfactory to us. Technicar did everything they could to solve the problem but sometimes the gremlins cannot be defeated. The important thing is that Raymond and Robert are willing to bear the responsibility when they are unable to satisfy a customer. That quality, along with their technical expertise, qualifies them to do your work. We highly recommend them to anyone.

The positives:
1) Technicar sets a high standard for car electronics shops. They do A+ custom installations.
2) I have gone to them for three things — Passport 9500ci, Laser Interceptor, and a Navigation System motion override. They did a superb job. I would say it is by far the nicest installation I have ever seen.
3) They placed the radar display inside the rear-​view mirror so it is only visible to the driver, they created custom switches in my dashboard for the radar, laser interceptor and navigation override buttons. It looks like the car was made that way by the factory.
4) They do the wiring the hard way — directly into the fusebox rather than tapping other circuits. This takes more time but keeps your warranty clean. It is the highest quality work.
The negatives:
1) I found the laser jammer didn’t work properly because they hadn’t aligned it correctly. I had to go back and have them re do it. If you pay top dollar it should be first time right.
2) When I bought a BMW M5 they all of a sudden wanted to charge much more for the install than they did on the Lexus. It was the same product being installed. I found another guy who did it for a third of the price and who did the work just as well. That guy is Steve at Total Auto Protection in Kendall and I recommend you go there instead.