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MESF Members and Technicians may be involved with one or more of the following types of vehicle:
Cars - Vans - Trucks - Motorcycles - Scooters - Heavy Goods Vehicles -
Recreational Vehicles - Agricultural Vehicles - Plant
MESF Members and Technicians may offer one or more
of the following types of products and services:
Security including electronic and mechanical devices -
Mobile media including audio and in car entertainment -
Telematics including fleet management and tracking - Communications including
cellular and mobile radio - Aftermarket equipment including safety aids, van lining and
racking, air conditioning and towing equipment -Auto Electrical including electronic repairs and servicing.
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CONSUMER ADVICE LINE 0870 8635210
Contact us: PO Box 3750 Braintree Essex CM77 8ZE
Email: advice@mesf.org.uk
Successful equipment installation relies to a great extent on the skill, craftsmanship and common sense of the installation technician. There are, however, certain guidelines that will help achieve the ultimate aim of:
A SATISFIED CUSTOMER WITH A SAFE, EFFICIENT AND RELIABLE INSTALLATION.
The MESF Code of Practice provides a minimum standard for the safe and effective installation of mobile electronics and security and safety products into motor vehicles.
All MESF Approved Specialist Installers are bound by the MESF Installation Code of Practice.
ENJOY PEACE OF MIND
TO ENSURE THE INSTALLER IS QUALIFIED IN MOBILE ELECTRONICS - ASK TO SEE THEIR CURRENT MESF TRAINING CERTIFICATE
FIND YOUR NEAREST MESF APPROVED SPECIALIST INSTALLER HERE
FIND AN ENHANCED SVA SECURITY INSTALLER FOR IMPORTED VEHICLES HERE
 SUPPORT THE AFTERMARKET RIGHT TO REPAIR CAMPAIGN. TO LEARN ABOUT R2RC AND FIGHT FOR CONSUMER CHOICE AND THIS INDUSTRY'S FUTURE –
CLICK HERE
INSURANCE APPROVED VEHICLE SECURITY DEVICES
 SOLD SECURE vehicle security device listing recommended by the MESF
SOLD SECURE is a test house that provides test and assessment services of effective security products to commercial customers, the insurance industry, the Home Office, police forces and the public.
To consult the comprehensive list of vehicle security devices, tested and evaluated for insurance approval by SOLD SECURE: CLICK HERE
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TRAINING and QUALIFICATIONS
The MESF, as part of the Vehicle Enhancement Certification Programme, has motor industry approved installation training courses and technician qualifications that provide an industry relevant career path.
If you are ALREADY EXPERIENCED and want a recognised qualification or you WANT TO JOIN THE INDUSTRY and start out with the advantage of the MESF Certificate 1 Basic Installation qualification
ENTER HERE
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TRAINING NEWS
NEW INSTALLATION ACCREDITATION TO BENEFIT VEHICLE USERS
Nationally recognised accreditation for installation technicians is set to become a reality.
The Mobile Electronics and Security Federation announces that work on Automotive Technician Accreditation for installers of audio, security, communications and similar equipment is set begin on April 21 2008, as part of The Institute of the Motor Industry’s ATA programme for motor industry technicians.
Although already offering installation technicians a full range of industry specific qualifications and training for many years as an IMI Approved Centre, the MESF saw that to gain full motor industry acceptance of the aftermarket sector that installs audio, security, communications and similar equipment to motor vehicles, a dedicated ATA would be needed.
The MESF successfully presented to the IMI evidence of market size, worker numbers, complexity of work undertaken and industry sector support before gaining approval for development of its own ATA to begin.
A Working Group of industry experts comprising installation technicians, business owners and representatives from industry organisations is being assembled to steer the development of the ATA.
If any readers with an interest in the installation of aftermarket electronic, electrical and security devices would like to join the working group or be kept up to date with developments please contact the MESF.
MESF General Secretary, Jeff Marshall MIMI says,
“Our industry sector has for too long been the poor relation of the motor industry. As independent retailers and installers we have suffered from the negative attitude of the motor manufacturers and their dealer networks to equipment not included as standard on their vehicles. In reality our installation technicians are exceptionally skilled; they treat as normal the successful and safe integration of complex electronic devices into equally complex motor vehicles many years before the motor manufacturers list the devices as options or standard equipment.
By having the same accreditation for technicians through the IMI and ATA, our industry sector will have the status it deserves as a significant part of the motor industry.
Vehicle owners, fleet operators and other vehicle users will have the confidence to use the independent aftermarket and ignore any more negative statements from the motor manufacturers and their dealer networks.”
MESF ANNOUNCES CAREER PATH FOR INSTALLATION TECHNICIANS
To find out more click HERE
 IMI AWARDS - NEW BRANDING FOR INDUSTRY QUALIFICATIONS AWARDING BODY
In a bold and innovative move which will ensure a singularly representative voice in raising skill levels and standards of professionalism across the whole the retail motor industry, The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) and Automotive Skills combined forces in July 2007. Of major significance is the separation of the IMI's qualifications awarding and quality assurance activity into a new and wholly owned subsidiary of the IMI group of companies, IMI Awards, for which a new brand has been introduced. 
This will appear on all certificates awarded from 9 July 2007. This development, welcomed by the Sector Skills Development Agency, has been supported by the automotive industry and stakeholders across the nations in having real benefits for the sector and its employees.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
2008 – THE YEAR OF THE INSTALLER
The Federation of Communication Services invites you to their Installers Convention
Comms Installer 08
14 May 2008
Daventry
The FCS Mobile Equipment Installers Group invites installers, manufacturers of vehicles, suppliers of mobile phones, radios, telemetry, satnav and accessories to the single event focussing on the installation sector.
Comms Installer 08
14th May is the single day of the year for installers, their suppliers and customers to meet learn and have their say on the development of their profession
Comms Installer 08 will keep you informed about new opportunities and new developments on the horizon- keeping you ahead of the game
The marketplace for new products and opportunities
Debate burning issues
Attend a range of workshops including training
Find out about changes to the industry code of practice and accreditation scheme
FCS invites MESF members to join the event free of charge
Contact the MESF for more details
DRIVERS USING SAT-NAV - PLEASE READ
Sat-Nav users – Earn £25 (approx $50) for about 1 hour’s work by participating in an online navigation system user study conducted by the University of Nottingham.
Please note this study is completely non-commercial in nature, and a summary of the results will be posted back here as soon as they are available.
To find out more visit www.freewebs.com/participant-information
Nick Forbes Principal researcher University of Nottingham (UK)
‘STING’ CHANGES HANDS
Locks4Vans Ltd, is now the UK’s largest independent supplementary lock provider for vans and other commercial vehicles, since adding ‘sting’ to its products by acquiring the mechanical locking division of Scorpion Automotive Ltd.
Appreciating the need to continually develop product and introduce technical advances for increasingly complex new vehicles, Scorpion Automotive Ltd sees Locks4Vans Ltd as being best placed to undertake that task for mechanical locking. This move allows Scorpion to devote resources to its core business areas.
Locks4Vans Ltd Managing Director, Chris Batterbee MIMI is no stranger to the Scorpion lock range as he set up their Lock Division and developed the products in the mid-to-late 1990s. He welcomes the addition of Scorpion to the Locks4Vans offering as a major benefit to the trade now that product and service for the two highest quality ranges of after-fit locks are available from a single dedicated source.
Locks4Vans designs, manufactures and distributes supplementary locking systems to the trade only. An ISO 9001-2 registered Company, Locks4Vans Ltd is a Corporate Sponsor of the Mobile Electronic and Security Federation, a member of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and an affiliate of the Master Locksmiths Association.
Based in Gravesend Kent, Locks4Vans has an internal staff of eight plus two external sales managers (North & South). Additional internal staff will further strengthen the Design/Development and Customer Service teams for the extended product range which adds the familiar and popular Scorpion Kaba-Grundmann locks and the BodyGuard shutter security systems to their own T and S Series products. Scorpion B Series keys will now be cut and supplied for the next working day on Locks4Vans computer controlled key machines, using original manufacturers’ blanks.
Locks4Vans Ltd
Tel: +44 (0) 1474 560077
Fax: +44 (0) 1474 561112
E-mail: sales@locks4vans.co.uk
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CAR MAKERS PLAN TO KILL CD PLAYERS BY 2012
In another example of car makers taking away car owners freedom of choice and further restricting the aftermarket, at the Auto Interiors Show in Detroit a leading dashboard electronics developer stated that as early as 2012 the CD player will disappear from car interiors.
Despite the solid millions of CDs owned and played in car by drivers, the car makers intend to force us into buying and using the music storage devices they wish to promote. Gone will be the universality of knowing you can have your favourite music playing in any CD player equipped vehicle. Instead there will be a variety of incompatible technologies varying by car maker dependent on which ever player manufacturer they happened to have done a deal with for a particular car. Options and upgrades will be limited to whatever is compatible with the car and its existing equipment. Even worse, there will be no dashboard space for an owner to install the entertainment equipment of their choice. In a backward step harking back to the days before even DIN slots with blanking plates were dashboard features, audio and navigation head units will become add-ons not add-ins. The car makers plan to provide electrical sockets for drivers to connect music players, phones and laptops. This will inevitably increase distractions for drivers and provide an unsightly and hazardous clutter of wiring and portable devices around the driver. Not a good idea.
Even if the car makers want to save a few pounds of production costs or earn a few pence in licensing fees on the vehicles they sell they should not impose a proprietary music device on their customers or deny them the opportunity to fit what they want, safely and securely, in the dashboard as before.
The car owner must be free to choose to keep up with the latest technologies if they want but also to keep the tried and tested for as long as they want as well.
Support the Mobile Electronics and Security Federation in ensuring the future of the vehicle aftermarket and upholding the principle of customer choice.
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 Whether you use your vehicle for pleasure, commuting or business, the mobile electronic vehicle enhancement industry has products and services that will make your journeys more enjoyable, less stressful and more productive - as well as safer and more secure.
Best of all they can cost less, be more advanced and suit you better than similar looking products from the maker of your vehicle.
Contact an MESF Approved Specialist for your in-vehicle entertainment, security, communications, navigation and other vehicle enhancement products and services needs.
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