Originally posted by cjamie
If honda is willing to ship alpine with their car; they are willing to represent themselves with an alpine cd player. Material selection is just as important as overall design. I do not think it is fair to blame Alpine completely for the faulty player. After all, no body forced Honda to use that particular changer; Honda is to blame for poor material selection and sloppy testing job.
That's very harsh. Clearly it's a fluke thing, as few people have had problems. If it was widespread, I'd agree with you. You can't test all 350,000 Accords they're gonna sell for CD player integrity...you test tens or them, not hundreds or thousands.