Best Looking Stereo for the 944 ?

[kevinshally]

Hi,
I've just spent many K on teh car with timing belt, water pumb (480 euro !!), ful service, brakes all round and plenty of small little things.
As a result my car is off the market for a while so I've been asked what to get from Santa.
I'm thinking of a new stereo to plug my i-pod into so I can listen to Christy Moore while driving the car.
My issue is that I don't want a bright shiny out of place stereo. I'ld like something which matches the all black interior, black leather etc and which will nto have graphic equalisers flashing all over the gaff.
I guess you know what I'm saying.
I also see (form old posts) that I can get new speakers put in and that while 9x6 might fight at a squeeze in can get 6x4s front and rear in my cab.
Seeing as I've got to drive from Dublin to Clare to Donegal, to Clare to Dublin in a few days over Santa season I might as well have some nice Music.
As for the car itself, it's running better than ever. Mechanics are like Doctors I rekcon.

 

[poprock]

I guess it's going to be a matter of personal taste, but I went for a Becker Grand Prix head unit in mine. The iPod adapters for them are a little hard to find (they tend to sell out quickly), but work really, really well. My iPod lives in the armrest (where the old cassette holders used to be) and is controlled through the two dials on the head unit.

Becker website

Here's a (really bad) photo, so you can see how well it fits in with the existing dash etc:

 

[kevinshally]

Deadly. That fits in really well. I don't want a big rainbow stereo.
Also, do I see that you're hazard light/clock is a bit busted? If so, we are in the same boat.
Broken for 4 years but it seems that my wife is correct when she says that if there is something I can fix for 100 euro I won't bother, but if it costs over 6or 7 hundred then I have no problem getting it done.
She has a point I guess. I'll just have to ignore it and explain that the cat costs more than the car and I can't ride the cat down to Clare at christmas (don't go there).

 

[poprock]

Heh"”aye, the clock was busted. I've fixed it since taking that photo though. One of the advantages to not managing to sell my 944 Lux yet: I swapped the clocks over on a bored Sunday afternoon. If only it had been that simple though "¦ what I actually did was dismantle the two clocks and cobble together the best bits from both to put in the Turbo dash (the working clock turned out to have a smashed housing and third-party light bulb held in with electrical tape!)

The little black "˜lump' you can see in the storage cubby beneath the stereo is actually the microphone for the Becker head unit's Bluetooth phone system. I wasn't expecting that to be included when I ordered the unit, but it works a treat"”nice bonus.

The head units are about £350 and the iPod kit to match goes for around a hundred. Bit on the expensive side, but the sound quality is amazing.

 

[Black_JPN]

I fitted a VR3 something or other to my OH's car recently, it has all the functionality I want - bluetooth, SD card reader etc. But.. it has a blue display and dukebox lights. I want an sublte amber display, bluetooth and an SD card reader. Surely not too much to ask is it? I can't find one though!