Thread: New Owner

Still love the car

Another Brother from a different mother.

Ahh I see the bug has bitten. I will be upgrading my headunit and removing my CD player in approx 1 months time. If you are still in need of these parts then for a small fee they are all yours my friend.

Oh and yes its an Alpine head unit

May I suggest you upgrade to a new alpine unit with inbuilt Bluetooth etc.
They are more reliable and the cd changer will bite the dust soon anyhow if it hasn't already.
Try TRS in SA if you are after original parts. They have plenty in stock.
If you do upgrade, they charge only a small install fee for wiring up radio/cd players.

I did mine in a Disco and they did great job and sounds so much better.
Even consider changing speakers as standard Land Rover ones are crap unless you have the H/K upgrade fitted.

The guys at the audio shops know exactly what goes where and do it in half the time we could ever do it.

Hi Rob, welcome to the club.

I'd definitely be fitting a new head unit rather than pursuing any of the original ones, they're pretty dated now... and as BigGuy said if the cd player goes at all it'll be on its last legs.

I fitted a new Alpine digital only unit to mine - meaning it has no cd/dvd input, only mp3, ipod and radio. Which I love as I can throw all my music on a memory stick and just plug the stick into the stereos USB.

If you need any adapters to make an after market head unit work then Range Rover Car Stereo Fitting Kits - Nexxia has a good selection.

Here's my Alpine - I got some little wood finish inserts to fit either side of it too to match the rest of the dash.

Hey mate,

many happy years driving...

now on to the Radio, I recently had mine die on me, after a quick visit to my local stereo guy he said that i can fit any head unit, All i needed was an inverter/converter, thingy ( if you tell them each door has its own amplifier they will know what to provide) and then in an afternoon, i fitted it myself, the instructions were pretty easy and like the other guys say, just get a head unit with features your likely to use, bluetooth etc... this was only a temp fix but works really well.



Ill be posting new pictures of mine soon, I have got the factory sat nav which is getting replaced with an Alpine Sat nav/dvd/radio head unit and a UHF in the radio slot.

Hope that helps a little bit
RAz

I really don't understand why people want to stick with the original head unit... they weren't that good. I have this Kenwood unit in mine which I'm pretty happy with and it was fairly simple to install myself... and when the screen is retracted it doesn't look out of place at all. You'll pay around $2k including the GPS and bluetooth modules.



Beware the $500 eBay specials like the one below. Performs poorly and looks pretty average too. iPod integration is very clumsy.


Predecessor to the eBay and Kenwood units was this JVC unit. Arguably still the best (hidden) iPod control but no bluetooth or GPS. Tilt screen was handy for glare.


Cheers, Paul.

Hi Guys

Many thanks for the posts and PMs with adivce and suggestions. I have just installed an after market Sony HU into the existing speaker set up - works like a charm.

I have a 10 stacker Sony that I removed. Don't know what condition it's in, but it's free to a good home.

Cheers
Rob

Originally Posted by PaulP38a

I really don't understand why people want to stick with the original head unit... they weren't that good. .

Plenty good enough for me.

Originally Posted by PaulP38a

I have this Kenwood unit in mine which I'm pretty happy with and it was fairly simple to install myself... and when the screen is retracted it doesn't look out of place at all. You'll pay around $2k including the GPS and bluetooth modules.

Another good reason to stay original!