Double Din Head Unit And Screen

[samwilko]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

Has anyone seen or bought one of these? It looks too cheap to be any good but may just be a bargain?!

[Jimlad]

The screen isn't motorised, you probably press a button and it pops out, then you move it into position etc. That's prob one reason why it's so cheap.

I've looked at that a few times and think it's ok. I would buy one if it had front pre-outs, rear pre-outs and a sub pre-out also.

I think it's good for the money tbh.

checking out his other auctions, he also has similar ones but with different screens etc. Good price I think... think I'll be looking at getting one sometime soonish.

you can get a motorised version for $209!!! CHEAPNESS

lookie

btw $209 is only £109 !!!!!

[samwilko]

I ve got a 1990 mk2 with standard double din cd/radio, would this unit just plug straight in do you think?

the motorised one looks excellent for £209-£254 with postage, didn t see that one before. I m just a bit concerned about the build quality, the actual CD/DVD player looks like a cheapo cd player, but I guess it is a cheap in car DVD player!

[shaf2000]

i had one of these jobbies before and they werent too bad at all. they wired up to my existing am and speaker set up and sounded very good.

it played, dvd's, mp3's, vcd's etc for the price, you cant go wrong :)

[samwilko]

I think Im gonna go for one, probably the motorised one, seems like a lot of stereo fro the money. Did yours play copies with no problem? DVDs and CDs

[mr2mk1g]

I'm very tempted by them myself. Don't have any issues with the screen portion of it but I'm worried about the DVD/CD/tuner portion. No idea about how well it's put together. Plus remember postage - that's about 50% of the purchase price on top!

So far I've been holding off for a more mainstream double din style head unit to come up. Anyone else have one of these as I'm currently without a stereo and desperate for either a nice Double Din or something a bit different like this.

[shaf2000]

I think Im gonna go for one, probably  the motorised one, seems like a lot of stereo fro the money. Did yours play copies with no problem? DVDs and CDs

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yeah i had the motorised one, altho i would prefer the manual one as the motorised kept going back in when you turned off the power.

yep, it played copies of all dvd's and cd's no problems at all. the picture quality of the screen was good too.

[samwilko]

the price is in pounds mate not dollars, still a bargain i reckon.

Why was it a problem the screen going back in when you turned it off?

[shaf2000]

Why was it a problem the screen going back in when you turned it off?

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well at shows, sometimes it was nice to show off the fact you had a tv screen in there but if the keys werent in the ignition, you couldnt show off your tv screen

[JappyBeast]

Had this site bookmarked for a while,

http://www.tgincar.co.uk/fos7inch.htm

[sewelly]

alrite shaf2000 mate.....just wondering were you got yours from looks well tidy...cheers

[shaf2000]

eBay, came in from hong kong, i asked them to mark the value as £30 and gift to clear customs without charges :)

[sewelly]

ebay, came in from hong kong, i asked them to mark the value as £30 and gift to clear customs without charges :)

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cheers mate...was there any problems with the build quality? not sure about getting one from a brand which i dont know.....

[Jimlad]

Had this site bookmarked for a while,

http://www.tgincar.co.uk/fos7inch.htm

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they look like they are only screens mate... ie not capable of playing anything on their own.

[JappyBeast]

Thought thats what we were looking at.

[Jimlad]

nah.. what we are looking it is a screen unit which comes with a seperate player unit also. The whole thing fits in the doule din space... much cheapness too.

[JappyBeast]

Hope they play more stuff than your last double din screen Jim!

[Jimlad]

yeah.. they play everything.. my last one was just a fancy japanese cd player... lol.

[JappyBeast]

So laughed when u told me you sat for 10 mins pressing on japanese writing not knowing what you were doing and then it started to bleep!

Just looked at the eBay item and the screen section looks WELL chunky..

[Jimlad]

So laughed when u told me you sat for 10 mins pressing on japanese writing not knowing what you were doing and then it started to bleep!

Just looked at the eBay item and the screen section looks WELL chunky..

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it was only after months of owning it that I started to suss out things!!! Never did manage to get the beeping to go away tho... couldn't suss it out... lol.

For the price of those eBay ones you can't complain mate.. you get a complete working audio/visual system for pennies!

[JappyBeast]

Cant be good quality tho.. really,

You can only just get a good brand MP3 player for that price. Bet there are loads of dead pixels on the screen the the DVD's play backwards only!

[Jimlad]

lmao... shut up.. read the guys feedback.

Are you telling me you wouldn't buy a stereo which is unbranded or something, but is the exact same as a sony/alpine branded one? Simply without the brand?

The sooner someone buys one of these things the sooner we'll know what it's like.

[JappyBeast]

Buy it then James!

[Jimlad]

I'm gonna....!!!...

need to find out if it has sub pre-outs tho ... if it doesn't.. not that interested.

[JappyBeast]

And if it beeps after pressing random buttons for 10 mins!...

Buy it James!