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Pink Install into 107

8 March, 2010 – 6:19 pm by Greg

Ellie came in looking to improve the bass in her little Peugeot 107. As its her 1st car she wanted something special and her love all things pink led her straight to our range of pink products from Inphase. Within a few minutes she’d decided on the compact, but powerful, XTP208. She teamed this up with the PA1200 amplifier for a powerful combination that’d really get the 107 moving!

 

Still some room for some shopping-even with this tiny boot!

Equipment used:

PA1200 1200W 2CH AMP

XTP208 2000W (1000WRMS)

IP101

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Peugeot 206 shallow mounts:

6 March, 2010 – 6:23 pm by Greg

The Peugeot 206 has notoriously shallow speaker appertures, making the fitting of high quality speakers a bit of a problem-until Inphase released the SXT range. Incorporating rare earth neodymium magnets these speakers are a fraction of the mounting depth of their compatriots as neodymium is 17 times as strong as conventional ferrite magnets allowing for a smaller motor structure but the same power!

 

 

Equipment used:

SXT6.1C FRONTS

SXT5 REARS

NORMALLY £341.00 FITTED, £300.00 FITTED IF YOU MENTION THIS!

Greg

0121 459 3131

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Been told you can’t change the radio on your Mazda RX8?

6 March, 2010 – 3:07 pm by Greg

Well who ever told you that hadn’t tried here first!

Paul contacted me about his UK RX8, wanting an all in one Navigation, ipod and bluetooth solution. He’d tried other car audio stores and been told it wasn’t possible-due to his UK spec “automatic” climate control.

We never like to be “beaten” by a car so I quickly sourced a suitable dash panel for it-not quite as easy a job as I thought-but an easy job is never as rewarding!

Paul had seen the Pioneer AVIC-F900BT on our site and after a quick chat it was decided it’d be the right machine for the job as not only did it do everything he needed it’s stylish piano black finish matched his dash perfectly!

Here’s a picture of it installed:

 

Equipment used:

Pioneer AVIC-F900BT

CT51MZ01

CD-IU230V

PANEL- TOP SECRET! YOU’LL HAVE TO CALL ME AND BOOK YOUR CAR IN!

Greg 0121 459 3131

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Ford Toureou 2010

5 March, 2010 – 2:49 pm by Phil

Having a large family this customer needed some in car entertainment before things got out of hand in his family minibus. Having being quoted a whopping £1650 + vat from another car audio retailer in the area we decided to give him what he wanted at a fraction of the price

He wanted 3 headrest screens, a dvd player and 5 wireless headphones and fitting

 

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Vectra Double Din:

5 March, 2010 – 2:10 pm by Greg

Got a late shape Vectra? Sick of your poor radio recpetion and limited sources? How about going double din?

In this car we fitted JVC’s excellent KW-AVX820. This face off double din screen incorporates Bluetooth and ipod charge and control so you can access music from your ipod and phone too! If that’s not enough this unit will also play MP3’s from DVD-allowing you to store 1000’s of tracks on one disc!

The picture from the DVD player can also be fed to a rear screen(s) to keep your passengers amused too!

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VW Golf MKIV AV System

4 March, 2010 – 6:37 pm by Greg

This customer wanted a Navigation system fitted, along with head rest screens-to be run off the front screen.

He’d already been down the portable sat nav and removable screens route but was tired of constantly taking it all in and out of the car. He also wanted bluetooth without any clutter on his dashboard so we selected Pioneer’s AVIC-HD3BTi one of the best all in one systems on the market (now superceded by the AVIC-F10BT). It has built in bluetooth, HDD Navigation and HDD music storage, ipod charge and control, TMC (traffic message channel-to route you around jams, not into them like portables do!) and the DVD player built into it can feed its picture to rear screens.

For the rear screens we selected the Alpine TME-780’s as our customer was getting the best so should his kids!

 

 

 

 

 

Equipment used:

AVIC-HD3BTi

ALPINE TME-780 PACKAGE

CT27AA08

IP5R

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137.6dB with Trex 12″ and IPA2001D

4 March, 2010 – 5:24 pm by Greg

One of our customers just sent in this pic of his A3 into which he’d fitted a 12″ DB Audio TREX and and Inphase IPA2001d, picture of it installed below. The 2nd picture shows the results the package achieved on a professional SPL (Sound Pressure Level) meter.

 

Sub wasn’t run in and amp still had room to give more-so this WILL GO LOUDER and we hope to be receiving some more pics soon!

Equipment:

DB Audio Trex 12″

IPA2001D

0-gauge wiring

Custom built enclosure

Come down to the Birmingham store with £800.00 and I’ll sort the box and the wiring FOC and give you 25% off Dynamat(you’ll need it!) and Power Caps

Greg

0121 459 3131

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Colour Coded Civic Type-R

4 March, 2010 – 1:14 pm by Greg

Our customer was looking to improve the sound quality in his car and get a stereo to control and charge his ipod Touch. As you can see from the pictures below his car had already had the dash colour coded to the exterior paint colour and he wanted his stereo to do the same.

This made helping him choose a radio quite simple-go for a personal favourite, Kenwood’s excellent KDC-W7544U. It’s illumination can be changed to suit your dash or mood and as its part of Kenwood’s “Sound Excellence” range so it benefits from adjustable front/rear and subwoofer cross-overs, 4Volt pre-outs, time correction and a 5 band parametric equaliser. Ipod or USB devices can be attached and controlled by a lead on the rear of the unit to allow them to be hidden from prying eyes in your glove box. 

 

Amber illumination

 

Aquamarine Illumination

 

Green Illumiation

Now, I bet you’re wondering where the red illumination shot is? Typically the camera’s battery died!

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Mercedes 7″ Head rest monitors

3 March, 2010 – 11:59 am by Greg

This customer wanted a rear seat entertainment system for his Mercedes saloon and didn’t want to hear what was being played or have the system obstruct his rear view-so a roof mount was out of the question.

The solution? Head rest monitors. We initially offered the customer Alpine’s awsome TME-780 pack but the customers boss, er wife, wouldn’t stretch to their price so he checked out Inphase’s IVM7PK and some Infra Red (IR) Headphones. He was delighted with the picture quality, and her the price, so the car was booked in and work commenced!

 

 

Screens fitted, seat backs off to run cabling.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Seat back re-fitted.

All back in place-the screens are the only evidence we’ve been hard at work!

 

Parts:

IVM7PK

SHS-N252

Call 0121 459 31 31 to get a quote on your car

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BMW Z4 and Pioneer DEH-P88RSII

2 March, 2010 – 4:03 pm by Greg

Our customer came to the store looking for a high quality audio solution for his new BMW Z4. Sound quality was key but it also had to look good and be easy to opperate an ipod from.

When I said to use the Pioneer my customer informed me he’d already been told by another dealer that it wouldn’t be possible to get the steering wheel controls to work with any radio-something I doubted and after a little research I found a lead that’d do the job. With that out of the way we were able to select a stereo. I recommended the DEH-P88RSII. It is a Sound Quality focused CD/MP3/WMA/AAC/WAV player with built in AUTO EQ and TIME ALIGNMENT enabling it to coax even your standard speakers into producing some awsome sounds!

The next issue we had to overcome was the dashboard. The BMW Z4 has a custom built radio in it so it needs a panel to replace it in order to fit the DIN sized Pioneer in there. This isn’t normally a problem as a panel is readily available-however the colour was wrong!  Fortunatley my engineer, Sud, is a dab hand with a can of spray paint (misspent youth?) and was able to colour code the panel to match the interior plastics. You can see the result below:

Parts used:

DEH-P88RSII £399.99

CD-IB100 £79.99

CT24BM06 £24.99

CT27AA16 £19.99

Stalk/steering wheel control lead-TOP SECRET CALL 0121 459 31 31 to book your car in!

Custom Colour Coding £25+VAT

Fitting £45+VAT

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