No one wants to fit Lidl sat dish (they want to use other dish), any idea why?

silversurfer

Hi,
I recently got one of the Lidl Sat units for my in-laws, as they had only free to air arial (and only about 5 channels & most of those very poor reception).
They're in Cork

They've been phoning around to get it fitted and none of the people they phoned would touch the lidl dish, they'd use everything else but not the dish.
If they fit the satellite they want to use another dish and I don't know why.

From boards.ie I've seen numerous people using the Lidl dish with only a few issues, which seem to be solved by tweaks of one sort or another.
I saw another Lidl unit working in a friends house, he'd put it up himself and it looked pretty good.

Can you advise why my in-laws are having so much hassle with this?

Thanks in sdvance
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miju

more than likely it's because the local installers are simply trying to sell you their product stock and make more cash out of the one call .

simple really

Compton

because the lidl dish isn't good... is the honest answer and is really badly designed.

ring satworld, i'm sure they'll do it for ya.

redout

I thought satworld are in Dublin ? This guy is in Cork !!!!!!!!!

mjsmyth

the dish is fine, the problem is with the weak, correction, the very very weak bracket.

I changed the bracket and and my dish has been up almost 4 years now with out issue.

mj

steveon

The Lidl dishes are extremly weak and badly designed, and are very easily moved in the wind, the combination of plastic parts and cheaply made bolts mean they easily rust and break after time.

I hate putting them up personally and usually advise people to upgrade to a Sky dish, seldom listen and then complain when they experience problems later on.

Rippy

If they rang round they probably called me. I have refused a couple this week.
Do you not know that there is a cartel operating in Cork amongst the satellite installers and at our secret meetings we have agreed not to touch these perfectly sound dishes and all members insist on supplying there own overpriced dishes?:eek:

OR...... it could be exactly as Stevon says. Put up a crap dish , come the first strong wind they are on the phone moaning that they have no signal and can you come out this evening before Coronation St please?

Rippy

miju wrote: »

more than likely it's because the local installers are simply trying to sell you their product stock and make more cash out of the one call .

simple really

I see you are a mod for conspiracy theories

jhegarty

shblob wrote: »

because the lidl dish isn't good... is the honest answer and is really badly designed.

ring satworld, i'm sure they'll do it for ya.

have you ever even made a satellite post that isn't pimping satworld ?

silversurfer

All,
Thanks for the replies.

It basically looks like the sat dish is of a poorer quality to others you can buy, with poor fittings and is more likely to move with weather and have problems, etc...
I'll let the in-laws know, think they're getting it fitted tomorrow (sat), only found this all out today.

and Yes, they are in cork, I figgured 'shblob' hadn't read the post or was advertising

thanks,
s

watty

Get a good quality 80cm dish. The lidl is itself is marginal (arm too flimsey) and bracket terrible.

A proper dish also is strong enough for more than one LNB to get multiple satellites.



Though the vertical adjustment on the triax is a pig to set.

TheDriver

I wonder how many lidl sets actually get put up, i know a few people who bought them and still have them in the box from over the years, pure waste of money. I got a cheap dish once and broke my heart, triax all the way, never looked at it since and its a sturdy as the eiffel tower

Compton

try national cable & satellite, they're in cork AFAIK.

Although I would recommend getting a better dish, triax or similar as suggested already.

if the above fails... install it yourself?

St Senan

This thread should be merged with the main thread about Lidl satellite{dustbin lid} dishes.

byte

scaller wrote: »

This thread should be merged with the main thread about Lidl satellite{dustbin lid} dishes.

Yeah, but posts get mixed up with the other thread then. I think I'll just let this one run it's course.

PaulieBoy

Rippy wrote: »

OR...... it could be exactly as Stevon says. Put up a crap dish , come the first strong wind they are on the phone moaning that they have no signal and can you come out this evening before Coronation St please?

It's worse than that!
They will expect you to do it for free, and they will blame you for everything that goes wrong with it, for ever, because you fitted it!!

They will blame the fitter for all that is wrong with the system, and never for one second consider that the system is rubbish.

People buy cheap crap, then want it fitted on the cheap, and blame the fitter on every wow that happens thereafter, hence why the OP can't get a fitter.
Simple really !!!!!

I fix a leak on a broken down in dire need of replacement flat roof, a while later it leaks in a different place, I get a call to fix it. The customer is under the mistaken illusion that it's my problem, that I "fixed" it and now it leaks again, so it's my fault!!!
I do not fix flat roofs anymore, for anybody, once you fix it, your married to it.
People are funny, they buy rubbish on the cheap, ask for it to be fitted on the cheap, and then blame the fitter when it all goes wrong, yup, people are funny, in an unfunny kind of way !!