dementia

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Like the title says do European radios work in US cars or is there a power discrepency? I'm a lil picky when it comes to how I want my interior to look and being as how my dash lights up all red I'd like to get a headunit that does the same. Ive found a few from US sites that light up red but they either look ugly or look cheaply built. I saw a pic of the CDA-9833 in another post and it had the red buttons but the lcd was blue/white/orange which I didnt care for. I looked it up online and behold I found a European site that looks as if they have an all red version (as well as other color combos) for this headunit. Any clue if its compatible?

2K2WS6TA

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AFAIK the Euro cars also use a 12v system. The only voltage difference I know of is in houses

99FormulaM6

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freqs are different, arent they?

maddboost

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Voltages are the same but they operate on completely different radio frequencies that arent compatible with ours.

dementia

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would the frequency difference matter? dont radios scan until they land on a frequency anyways or do they operate on a completely different Range altogether?

After looking at that site again i'm thinking I might not be out of luck completely. I did the Euro to US dollar conversion on the price and it came out to 60 something bux. I'm thinking maybe they just convert the lcd/leds to whatever color you want. Otherwise thats a killer deal on a Euro radio. Anyone know of places in the US that would do this? Or where I can find an all red alpine or pioneer HU in the US?

2002_Z28_Six_Speed

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I am not a know it all, but this is my take on this......


Here is a radio station in Italy: http://www.radiomia.it/pagine/radiomia.htm
It says 98.6 FM and I can dial that on my radio.

Here is another one: http://www.radiomia.it/pagine/radiobattikuore.htm
95.5......... that is almost on an american dial.

I doubt the modulation is different because I have heard radio stations from Mexico.

The vehicle voltage.... I doubt it is different.

I think it will work!

cbrich

If you want a red radio, replace all the light sources, whether it be bulbs or LEDs with red LEDs. I would try it on an el cheapo radio first because you don't want to screw up an expensive radio.

dementia

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I thought about that and I'm positive I could get the buttons to light up red but the screen is the problem. No clue as to how to change the color on it as I dont think they're lit up by led or bulb.

Charging TA

I just moved from the US to Europe... All radios are working here so far, one thing someone said was that over there frequencies are like 103.1, 98.7 and such where the last digit is odd, and over here they are all 103.2 and 98.8 instead... I havent checked on it though...

Honda Hunter

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I live overseas. We bring our cars from the states all the time and the stations work fine and people buy cars here and send them back to the states and never have such issues. I'm 99.9% sure it doesnt matter.

jimmy 2 Times

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the alpine 9855, you can change the colors

dementia

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on all the buttons and the display? it does cost 2x as much though. A HU the ipod adapter and pac sxi-x is gonna run too much as it is with the 9833.

WhiteBird00

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You can generally use a European radio in the US but the reverse isn't necessarily true. The problem isn't with the voltage (almost all cars are 12V negative ground these days) but with the radio frequencies. FM radio stations in the US are separated by 200kHz so digital tuners will only tune odd numbered decimals (99.1, 99.3, etc.). Europe allows stations to be only 100kHz apart so all decimals are valid (99.1, 99.2, etc.). So, a European radio will tune all the US stations plus all the stations in between. However, if you take a US radio to Europe you could be missing out on half the available stations. A similar difference occurs in AM frequencies (but who cares).

dementia

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Thanks for the info.

Charging TA

I was half right:p So now I know Im missing out on half the stations here for sure, but I really dont feel like spending on money on replacing radios in 3 cars.