I got the hook up spot in downtown, What head unit model should i get for my car....

last weekend i bought a headunit for my girl (in crutchfield it costs $299) i got it with the mounting unit for $200 straight up

 

come on give me some tips!

 

alpines are good, if ur willing to spend the money for the good ones...

 

yea the one i got for my girl was an alpine, i'm thinkin that, but anything SPECIFIC?

 

Alpine CDA-9856 I have that HU and like it a lot. Real easy to use and has just about everything you need for a decent price. Ipod control, sat radio, cd, am, fm. The Ipod control is what did it for me. Hope that helps.

 

crutchfield has a handy car specific search feature, check that out...

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-TegQAsH...sp?g=300&avf=N

 

QUICK figure out where this was really supposed to be posted.


And when you do figure that part out you might want to put a little more information in your thread... But since you didnt specify anything you want I would pick the Eclipse AVN5495

 

ended up with this unit... it measures ur cars G-Force, turning etc... lol!!
crutchfield has it for $299 i got it for 200

 

eclipse AVN5495

 

seems like you didn't do bad at all!

 

ya, now my base wont thump every time i turn the car off

 

so um, does anyone have the helms and can tell me do i need to remove the entire lower dash area or is there some way of popping out just the stock head unit?!

if i had the money id def get the eclipse avn

 

could you fit the kenwood double-sized cd/mp3 player? DPX-301 or DPX-701

 

YO... having troubles here....

wired the harness (the shop gave me a 98' and up Acura/Honda harness) wired it as diagram shows, no grounding issues, power IS being supplied to stereo, screen comes on, plays everything, JUST NO SOUND... hooked up a boom box stereo to wires to make sure H.U. was fine, guess what, it is it played thru the cheapie speaker, but i cant get any sound in my car stereo speakers

HELP

 

THANKS for all the help.... ASSHOLES!!!!!!! got it figured out, the shop gave me a defective harness that was missing the blue cable

 

If that was the only thing that made you buy a new headunit then you could have just bought a 2 dollar cap from Radio Shack and put it inline with your remote wire. It would have solved the problem.

 

that was only part of the reason, the aftermarket head unit has a awesome eq, and also outputs twice as much as the stock unit, so the speakers are louder, I have the base adjusted so it only comes from the sub, and the stock speakers outputting twice as much as before are simply for hi's and mid's

 

i am also a fan of eclipse...

 

Alpine IWA-W200

 

Quick question guys...does Crutchfield give you the harness/bracket thing to fit a aftermarket head unit..or will i have to buy this seperatly?

 

if you buy a headunit from crutchfield, you will get a harness, and mounting bracket for free... it is basically included into the price...

 

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