Change head unit - Wellington

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Peter7068

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#317839 20-Nov-2024 12:52

Anyone had their 2DIN head unit swapped out in Wellington? With microphone and steering wheel controls still working. If so (a) Who did you use, and would you recommend them? and (b) some rough indicator of cost to swap, recognising the actual unit being swapped could be worth a lot or a comparative little.

I've had enough of translating japanese writing, with not great sound quality and no navigation.

rp1790

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#3310951 20-Nov-2024 13:56

If thats too expensive, consider one of the portable Apple Carplay/Android Auto units. They cheap, bug screens and work better (wireless etc) than most of the third party replacement units.

BlakJak

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#3310966 20-Nov-2024 14:28

I bought a suitable stereo off Trademe and then paid Abtec in Petone to do the install for me. They did a pretty good job.

The stereo I bought is Android based and not the bet quality, to be honest - Philips brand, but it's a chinese architecture under the hood that suffers from what you'd expect , but it's doing the job and Abtec were quite accomodating about the install. My Prius needed an unusual size and bezel so there weren't a lot of options, my only alternative was to keep the OEM Japanese unit.... after 12+ years of Japanese i'm quite glad to have one that actually uses English now.

Major downer is that the USB connection for Android Auto is intermittent so I basically don't use it now, just bluetooth.

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