OT: Double Din Headunits.

I'd go a flip out. Keep the sunglasses cubby.

Fraser

I've only seen 4 double din units at the moment 2 are hideous silver grey units ( Pioneer FH-P4100R / Clarion ADZ628R)and the other 2 are from Kenwood. One of the Kenwood units is a full screen unit and not exactly cheap to go with it (about £800 when I asked DDX-8027) and the other is brand new quite dull to look at but dose MP3 Bluetooth and has a usb connection (DPX501U). There are others but I haven't actually seen them.

Clueless question here : can't you get single din with a non-motorised screen? What would be wrong with that?

cheers, clive

By the time you've thrown in space for a CD, it would be a small screen.

Yesss - but what information do you actually display on the screen?

Obviously having a big motorised screen gets gadget points - but how much does it actually help?

cheers, clive

It would be handy, I find when I'm trying to watch a film on my laptop it slides off the passenger seat, so I have to hold it. Obviously this means sometimes I spill my beer as well...

Speed, direction, G forces, GPS map, Working Lunch.

But Carl appeared to be asking about a normal audio headunit - do any single DIN headunits display this stuff?

cheers, clive

Yes, the AVIX-1 from Pioneer

You got me. I had a single DIN with a motorised screen. It looked pretty. It was annoying at night!

For an "ordinary" system it serves no purpose. Once you start adding the ability to play MP3s, add a GPS sensor for navigation, or OBD-II connection, then it becomes more use.

For me? My hearing isn't great, almost all of the time a 64 kbs MP3 sounds like a 128 kbs MP3 and I just want something I can make loud or run quiet... :)

Single din screen would just be a screen. So I would need a headunit and lose the sunglass cubby. A single din motorised screen is usually a touch screen headunit. Just can't decide the between the single and double.

I have tinted glasses (reactive), so I don't carry my specs anymore. I just fill it up with gum wrappers, and the glove box is big enough for everything else.

Still confused. Headunit is amp + cd player + radio + gubbins, right? You can get those in single din without a motorised screen.

cheers, clive

Do they work ok (I'm guessing they do)? I tried them about 12 years ago and they wouldn't go dark in the car...

Yes, but I fancy a screen based one, rather than a normal one. never really treated myself to a decent one before. I deserve a little pampering.

They don't really in the car, but with factory tint on the side windows, and the pop down visor they aren't too bad.

Ah, toys. All becomes clear now.

cheers, clive

Oh yes, purely toys. Car is very poorly equiped standard audio wise, so it will be getting a full refit.

I'm wearing a black ben sherman, with a black T shirt, with black brushed cotton jeans, with black short cowboy boots, and hair spiked up with Dax spiking gel and I have a beard that is white from the adam's apple down. So what about the glasses would make me look weird?