Best place to buy reasonably priced car cd/radios??

kiwa

I bought a bootiful VW Golf during the week, dash lights are all red and blue so I wanted a nice CD player to match. They have one or 2 in Argos but none in stock so decided to go further afield....any suggestions? I've looked in a few specialist shops but oh my holy bob, ridiculous prices!!

Alun

Maybe if you defined "reasonably priced" a little more precisely, you'd get more help.

One word of warning though ... there's blue and there's blue What I mean is that many radios with blue backlighting emit a slightly different shade of blue to the VW dash lights. It doesn't take much difference for it to become slightly annoying.

Stephen

Try here: www.incarexpress.co.uk

m_stan

I bought mine off these guys (www.mcs-direct.co.uk ) - much cheaper than anywhere in Ireland. Got a steering wheel remote also and still cheaper including shipping.

Here's the head unit I bought, which I love - plays mp3's off cd-r's which means I can load a cd up with maybe 7 to 10 albums, and the boot changer controls on the remote control the navigation between folders. Love it. And looks good on the red dash of my beamer.

Thumper Long

this STEREO very closely matches the golf interior display with the blue lights and red buttons and is mp3 compatible aswell, it is an exclusively german model but also has the english menu it is the best match for the golf and at €165 delivered its about €100 cheaper than the equivilent model here

old boy

autozone/pr reilly have a jvc head unit + a 10 cd changer for 250 yo yos check em out

viking

Pixmania are good too.

unklerosco

Pioneer do headunits that are matched to the golf interior colours...

kinkstr

www.dabs.co.uk

Bluetonic

kiwa wrote:

I bought a bootiful VW Golf during the week, dash lights are all red and blue so I wanted a nice CD player to match. They have one or 2 in Argos but none in stock so decided to go further afield....any suggestions? I've looked in a few specialist shops but oh my holy bob, ridiculous prices!!

One word - Jonesborough

MikeHunt

this is classs... http://www.pixmania.com/ie/uk/114326/art/h-b/ca-5555-cd-mp3-usb-car-ra.html

head unit with a SD card slot and a USB port for €116

Some unheard-of make, but it probably wont be long before the bigger brands start churning them out. JVC have one for 400 quid or something rediculous

kiwa

Alun wrote:

Maybe if you defined "reasonably priced" a little more precisely, you'd get more help.

One word of warning though ... there's blue and there's blue What I mean is that many radios with blue backlighting emit a slightly different shade of blue to the VW dash lights. It doesn't take much difference for it to become slightly annoying.

Thanks a million for all the help people! I'll let ya know which one I go for....

One shop I went into had a plain cd player for about e400 and the next one up was e2000! Couldn't believe it...so I guess by reasonable I meant not ridiculous

Cheers again!

kiwa

MikeHunt wrote:

this is classs... http://www.pixmania.com/ie/uk/114326/art/h-b/ca-5555-cd-mp3-usb-car-ra.html

head unit with a SD card slot and a USB port for €116

Some unheard-of make, but it probably wont be long before the bigger brands start churning them out. JVC have one for 400 quid or something rediculous

Nice!!

KO

This one might fit in with the black interior
http://www.pixmania.com/ie/uk/93887/art/sony/cdx-s2250-cd-mp3-car-radi.html#

WizZard

Bluetonic wrote:

One word - Jonesborough

*snigger*

Zascar

www.caraudiosecurity.com is excellent, as is incarexpress.co.uk (www.caraudio.ie)