Cheap Head Unit
 

i am in the market for a cheap head unit. my car came with one, but half the buttons don't seem to work, so i am looking to replace it.
not interested in anything fancy. the car does have 6 speakers in it(not sure if the amp for the sub is there or not) and they seem to be in pretty good shape(the two i have looked at were factory).
only things i need are a radio, a cd player, and i woudl like to have a front input for MP3/XM in case i happen to have some extra toys in the car.
it only needs to be an OK radio, i don't tend to blast the radio or anything and i am not interested in spending a ton of money.

TIA

The one in the 77 is a pioneer I got at Circuit City for like $99 and has all that.

+1 for Pioneer. I bought a low-end Pioneer CD player for my Cherokee two years ago and it works great! It's never skipped, and has decent power output. I used to buy Kenwood headunits, but the last one took a dirtnap a mere 2 months after its 12-month warranty expired. A friend of mine had the same headunit, and his bit the dust as well, around the same time. We were unhappy, to say the least!

cheap Pioneers FTW, ive had one in every car ive ever owned!

timmay, if you buy a pioneer that is ipod and xm ready, i have the ipod hardwire and the xm hardwire kits for pioneer

thanks mike, but the stuff you have is worth waaayyyyy more than i plan to spend. i am shopping in the 100-150 range at most.

Something like this would prolly work great:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1166840026727

- Justin

That is the one I got. $129 on the CC site now. I paid $109.

the adapters i have are like 150 new for both

I may be interested in the ipod adapter....

IM me next time your on Tim i work and Bestbuy and get a good discount on everything

I have a Sony XR-CA400 sitting here that's free to anyone who wants it.. :)

tim, what did you get?

Nothing yet....

- Justin

tim, ill hook u up with a cheap head unit if u can hook me up with the 2 months of advertising. I cant afford the $250 this month. All my bills hit at once..

I got a flip down kenwood here you can have for 40 bucks.

I found that Pioneer DEH-3900M on Amazon for $115.98 shipped......I'm prolly gonna get that for the Jeep. The one that's in there now skips like crazy, even after a lens cleaning. Damn Eclipse POS.

- Justin

what model eclipse? i have an eclipse in my camaro and its great.

I dunno, it's several years old. I'll check it and let you know.

- Justin

i told tim i can hook him up on the head unit, still waitin for him to get back to me

Can you beat the price I posted above? I was getting ready to order that one from Amazon....

- Justin

Jake, It's an Eclipse 5440.....not sure how old, but most of the mods on my Jeep were done around 2000 - 2001.

- Justin

those older ones are leaps and bounds better than the new ones. i have a 8503 which just has extra features over yours but is ultimately the same head unit. there is probably something wrong with it if it skips excessively.

The skipping seems to have stopped now, hasn't done it to me in over a week now. I'm still prolly going to replace it though - I want MP3 playback. Plus I have all the stuff to hook my XM receiver up through IP Bus, which is why I'm looking at Pioneer for a decent headunit.

- Justin

Justin PM me a part number and ill look it up tomorrow at work. i check the boards all the time from there so it wont be a problem