Thread: The best Car Audio/Media in a Range Rover Classic

Originally Posted by FisherX

I upgraded my stereo in my soft dash a few months ago and it was pretty easy.

I fitted a Pioneer flip out head unit, replace the front and rear speakers with some reasonably priced Kicker speakers, replaced the 8" sub woofer speaker (still in the original enclosure) and fitted an amp to drive the woofer.

The soft dash is ISO compliant so all you need is the ISO adaptor for the head unit and just plug it in. It woun't drive the CD stacker or Sub though. That's why I needed a amp to drive the sub and I don't use the CD stacker anymore.

Sounds pretty good to me and all for under a grand.

And the head unit takes pioneer radio apps as well so you can have navigation and a bunch of other suff driven from your phone.

This is my head unit. Got it on ebay from the US for $400AUD delivered, speakers, amp, ISO leads and Amp wiring kit from Autobarn for about $350 and the sub from ebay for $60


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How does this flip out unit fit in the Soft dash? I was looking at this unit for my 91 RRC but i thought the screen would hit the Air controllers - does it mount somewhere differently in a Softdash?

Originally Posted by Tomhumming

How does this flip out unit fit in the Soft dash? I was looking at this unit for my 91 RRC but i thought the screen would hit the Air controllers - does it mount somewhere differently in a Softdash?

softdash and hard dash mounting locations are completely different. This information is on the first page of this thread, in case you missed it.

no point in wasting your time with a flip-out in a hard dash unless you have a gauge pod or similar console to mount it on the dash above the centre vents, where it is easily accessible. The standard locations (early and late) leave a LOT to be desired from a safe-use-whilst-driving perspective.

This is one area where the interior designers should have been tied to a post and the firing squad deployed