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Before I go into details and bore you, I'm looking for:
-help removing radio screen trim piece in '05 CC
- any pics, details, diagrams of what's behind that screen and how much room there is
I need a reliable and easy to program navigation system and I'm not interested in a stand alone unit, I want it built in and flush. Goodmans has told me it would be cheaper to trade my car in on a GS and replace the single DIN unit.
Harware wise I've found at least one acceptable solution. Alpine has a remote touchscreen that will control the nav unit through their vehicle hub pro. Can also plug in the ipod, BT, rearview camera, DVD/CD, etc. I hear their nav system isn't the best, but will work, the BT is minimal and won't access many of the nicer functions of my phone (Nokia 9300i). I spend the majority of my day on the road in the car so those features are important to me. Pioneer has a superior system, but not one with a remote screen like the Alpine (which meets the space issue). I don't care about the HVAC or trip computer display info, I'm fine with just turning the knobs below and looking at their markings to determine where the settings are.
Goodmans (PA) gave me an initial estimate of $2000-$10,000 for install only. I've done some pretty trick installs in previous cars myself (up to fiberglassing custom molded speaker enclosured and rewiring the entire car with power and speaker wires). I can't imagine this being $10k in labor for just the head unit install, we never even talked about speaker and amp upgrades!
Anyone out there do anything different with your CC radio? I was thinking a flip out/up screen could easily fit where the CD changer was in the center console if I could hook up a slave monitor in the dash to read off of while driving, but no one seems to have a system that will do nav on a slave screen.
I'll of course post what I find out and end up with. I'm going to get an expert friends opinion later today (former IASCA national champion), but I think the easiest will be the apline with the center unit fiberglassed smooth to just fit the screen (cover up phone buttons and other unused ones) and then cover the upper and lower piece in leather . Just need to figure out how to get the top part of the unit out now w/o breaking anything...
-help removing radio screen trim piece in '05 CC
- any pics, details, diagrams of what's behind that screen and how much room there is
I need a reliable and easy to program navigation system and I'm not interested in a stand alone unit, I want it built in and flush. Goodmans has told me it would be cheaper to trade my car in on a GS and replace the single DIN unit.
Harware wise I've found at least one acceptable solution. Alpine has a remote touchscreen that will control the nav unit through their vehicle hub pro. Can also plug in the ipod, BT, rearview camera, DVD/CD, etc. I hear their nav system isn't the best, but will work, the BT is minimal and won't access many of the nicer functions of my phone (Nokia 9300i). I spend the majority of my day on the road in the car so those features are important to me. Pioneer has a superior system, but not one with a remote screen like the Alpine (which meets the space issue). I don't care about the HVAC or trip computer display info, I'm fine with just turning the knobs below and looking at their markings to determine where the settings are.
Goodmans (PA) gave me an initial estimate of $2000-$10,000 for install only. I've done some pretty trick installs in previous cars myself (up to fiberglassing custom molded speaker enclosured and rewiring the entire car with power and speaker wires). I can't imagine this being $10k in labor for just the head unit install, we never even talked about speaker and amp upgrades!
Anyone out there do anything different with your CC radio? I was thinking a flip out/up screen could easily fit where the CD changer was in the center console if I could hook up a slave monitor in the dash to read off of while driving, but no one seems to have a system that will do nav on a slave screen.
I'll of course post what I find out and end up with. I'm going to get an expert friends opinion later today (former IASCA national champion), but I think the easiest will be the apline with the center unit fiberglassed smooth to just fit the screen (cover up phone buttons and other unused ones) and then cover the upper and lower piece in leather . Just need to figure out how to get the top part of the unit out now w/o breaking anything...