Reviewed MSC Billet Phone Cover

[GregMember]

Product review of the MSC phone cover

My open and honest opinion take it as you want just there to help others make and informed purchase

As the title says it is a Billet I phone cover from MSC. I had one recommended to me by Lefty (Although I found out later his was new to him and well he has changed his mind as well ) I looked at the YouTube video that they have on the their site and well it’s an impressive bit of kit. Check it out, they run over it with cars, throw it down the road at 80kph all good live video and it protects it real good. They actually run over it with a car screen side up and no problems.

When I ordered it the woman advised me I may lose 1 to 1 and a half bars of reception. At home where service is ok I have 4 bars of 3G so I figured that would be ok. I wanted the case for when I am bike riding, face it when you need a phone bike riding it’s normally an emergency and you need two things. You need it to still be working and reception. It was obviously going to help with the still working part but would the reception part be a problem. 1 and a half bars should be ok and I hadn’t heard anyone with one say different and it would still be 3G. I was sure I saw a warning mentioned on their site but can’t see it mentioned now or can’t find it, it maybe there.

When I got the cover which by the way is $99 bucks so it isn’t cheap although I figured heaps cheaper than a new phone I thought the quality was great. Well made in a CNC machine, looked bling and would be awesome accessory. I fitted the cover and found I had gone from 4 bars of 3G reception at home to 2 bars of non 3G and couldn’t make a call at home. This meant although now an awesomely looking bling phone it was now as handy as a wheel chock. Actually it would make a good wheel chock because the phone would be well protected. I checked with Lefty who had its seems discovered the same thing and stopped using his (in fairness to the Left one we hadn’t discussed the covers between him showing me his when he first got it and me buying mine)
I have contacted MSC and was told by ol mate that if I suffered more loss of reception than they warned it must be my phone. Back to back testing with the same model phone on the same network at the same location shows my phone works fine.

To sum it up, if you lived in the city where range was always 5bars it would be ok. It looks great, nice and slim very bling. Support and customer service are ordinary at MSC it seems (always has with their dampers from experience)

Link to the phone cover well worth a look the youtube video

TB

[Jeffrey SmithMember]

Is it hard to remove from the cover?
It’s not ideal but I guess you could leave it on for protection while riding then take it off when you want to use it if it isn’t too much of a hassle.

[GregMember]

Jeffro wrote:

Is it hard to remove from the cover?
It’s not ideal but I guess you could leave it on for protection while riding then take it off when you want to use it if it isn’t too much of a hassle.

It would mean carrying an allen key with you everywhere, not ideal for a 100 dollar investment

TB

[RoyMember]

TB, what protects the screen from point load impacts (ie if you fall on a sharp rock). I guess they can’t put anything there other than those stick on films otherwise the touch screen part won’t work.

[Jeffrey SmithMember]

Trailboss wrote:

Jeffro wrote:

Is it hard to remove from the cover?
It’s not ideal but I guess you could leave it on for protection while riding then take it off when you want to use it if it isn’t too much of a hassle.

It would mean carrying an allen key with you everywhere, not ideal for a 100 dollar investment

TB

That’s what I said

It is just an option so you haven’t completely wasted your money.

[GregMember]

Jeffro wrote:

Trailboss wrote:

Jeffro wrote:

Is it hard to remove from the cover?
It’s not ideal but I guess you could leave it on for protection while riding then take it off when you want to use it if it isn’t too much of a hassle.

It would mean carrying an allen key with you everywhere, not ideal for a 100 dollar investment

TB

That’s what I said

It is just an option so you haven’t completely wasted your money.

And thats what I am saying :laugh: Look I am left with a bling case that when I go to Brisbane or Melbourne for work for a week and wont be leaving the city I may use it. But I will still need to carry an allen key with me for those times when you want to use in yit our motel room (Surrounded be concrete) maybe where it has only 3 bars normally and with the cover nothing! SO THATS LESS THAN IDEAL :laugh: :laugh:

Like I said I wrote so others are more informed before they make a purchase Tactful eh :whistle:

TB

[GregMember]

Bundyroy wrote:

TB, what protects the screen from point load impacts (ie if you fall on a sharp rock). I guess they can’t put anything there other than those stick on films otherwise the touch screen part won’t work.

The video shows it Roy, your right it doesnt cover the screen but they ran it over screen up at speed and it didnt mark the screen

TB

[Mick DMember]

Is this the same mob of clowns that dicked you around with Mal’s steering dampener a while back?

[Scott SouthwellMember]

I had a similar experience with a bling carbon fibre cover. Lost 3G at home, some places at work were SOS only and I couldn’t even hook up to my home Wifi.

[GregMember]

micknmeld wrote:

Is this the same mob of clowns that dicked you around with Mal’s steering dampener a while back?

Yeah same organisation

TB

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