Scott Long
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The deck I had in my car (90 SC auto) recently quit working and I have been driving around for about a week now with the wires hanging out of my dash board since I got fed up with it and removed it completely. The previous owner of my car thought it would be good to chop off the factory harness, so I had to go through and put female bullet connectors on the wires in the dash and then crimp the male bullets onto the harness for my new cd player. After stripping the wires and crimping the connectors it only took about 2 minutes to hook it all up and slide it into the dash and lock into the sleeve.
I bought a Pioneer DEH-P4700MP flip face CD/MP3/WMA player w/ remote. I was going to get the more expensive 6700 but the only differences I could find was the electric organic display which for about another $40.00 I figured I could live without. Overall I'm happy with it although I haven't really driven the car anywhere yet to enjoy it. But it will be nice to have music again in the SC. I did notice this only has 2.2v pre-outs where as the other deck I just removed had 5v outputs. So now subwoofer isn't as loud. I might be able to turn the gain up on my amp to make up for it, but the amp was having a problem with cutting out when I had the gain set higher so I will have to experiment and see. I'd like to buy a better amplifier next but I would rather get the car painted first. I was hoping to not have to buy the new CD deck but I tried a few other decks I had laying around and they are all dead so I had no choice. Plus I had my eye on this unit since the beginning of summer as an "I want" item so I guess now I can finally cross that off my list. I ended up getting it at Best Buy since I had a $3 Best Buy buck from McDonalds monopoly game in my wallet and everyone had about the same price on the unit. Still cost me $186.xx all said and done. I could have gotten it off ebay for a lot less but I was getting fed up not having any music.
Here's a couple of pics I snapped about 10 minutes ago.
So now my system consists of the Pioneer DEH-P4700MP head unit, Kicker Impulse 5x7 2 way's up front, Pioneer 5x7 3-way's in the rear, MTX Thunder 2200x amplifier, and a 12" Alpine Type-E subwoofer in a ported q-logic box.
I'm kind of disappointed that it doesn't have RCA inputs on it since it says it has Auxillary but it is for a cd-changer and requires a special plug. I was hoping to be able to run the audio in from my PS2 that I want to put in the glovebox and then run the video out to my legacy LCD monitor that I'm going to put at the front of the console once I get the ashtray fiberglassed smooth. I also have an XM satellite radio that I need to install but I don't know where I'm going to mount it, might have to use the vent mounts and mount it on my heater vents, but as you can see in the first photo my two center vents are broken (previous owner). I can probably get some cheap to replace it with though.
I bought a Pioneer DEH-P4700MP flip face CD/MP3/WMA player w/ remote. I was going to get the more expensive 6700 but the only differences I could find was the electric organic display which for about another $40.00 I figured I could live without. Overall I'm happy with it although I haven't really driven the car anywhere yet to enjoy it. But it will be nice to have music again in the SC. I did notice this only has 2.2v pre-outs where as the other deck I just removed had 5v outputs. So now subwoofer isn't as loud. I might be able to turn the gain up on my amp to make up for it, but the amp was having a problem with cutting out when I had the gain set higher so I will have to experiment and see. I'd like to buy a better amplifier next but I would rather get the car painted first. I was hoping to not have to buy the new CD deck but I tried a few other decks I had laying around and they are all dead so I had no choice. Plus I had my eye on this unit since the beginning of summer as an "I want" item so I guess now I can finally cross that off my list. I ended up getting it at Best Buy since I had a $3 Best Buy buck from McDonalds monopoly game in my wallet and everyone had about the same price on the unit. Still cost me $186.xx all said and done. I could have gotten it off ebay for a lot less but I was getting fed up not having any music.
Here's a couple of pics I snapped about 10 minutes ago.
So now my system consists of the Pioneer DEH-P4700MP head unit, Kicker Impulse 5x7 2 way's up front, Pioneer 5x7 3-way's in the rear, MTX Thunder 2200x amplifier, and a 12" Alpine Type-E subwoofer in a ported q-logic box.
I'm kind of disappointed that it doesn't have RCA inputs on it since it says it has Auxillary but it is for a cd-changer and requires a special plug. I was hoping to be able to run the audio in from my PS2 that I want to put in the glovebox and then run the video out to my legacy LCD monitor that I'm going to put at the front of the console once I get the ashtray fiberglassed smooth. I also have an XM satellite radio that I need to install but I don't know where I'm going to mount it, might have to use the vent mounts and mount it on my heater vents, but as you can see in the first photo my two center vents are broken (previous owner). I can probably get some cheap to replace it with though.
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Its saved me several more times, glad i have it, saved me some major money. That and its got a compass and tell u when an ambulance or fire truck or other emergency vehicles are coming, oh yeah it also got a compass and other cool stuff......
