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Jan 24, 2005 | 09:44 PM

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Headunit that matches factory gauges

I don't care for all the fancy screens on the CD players these days. I'm looking for a high end deck that will blend into my Camaro dash and not look like a video game. Color of the illumination and ***** is important. TIA.

Jan 24, 2005 | 10:23 PM

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alpine has green and amber lighting if that helps. most headunits look like video games though. thats what sells

Jan 24, 2005 | 10:26 PM

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Well, the Camaro has white and red (mostly) gauges. Anything other then Sony have white and red lights? I'd prefer something with a **** too. TIA

Jan 25, 2005 | 01:31 AM

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the sony wx-7700 looks pretty imo and the lights change to a lot different colors

Jan 25, 2005 | 07:50 AM

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Is that 2din?

Jan 25, 2005 | 12:36 PM

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yea its a 2 din, its a little difficult to get your hands on them, they're mainly in japan at this time although there are a few places here that sell them, i think the head unit runs for 650, and is like 52w*4, not 100% though on the specs of it
http://www.melting-pot.com/website/p...WX7700MDX.html

Jan 25, 2005 | 02:05 PM

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Our cars use 1.5 DIN so you can't mount a double DIN head unit without considerable modification to the dash.

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Jan 26, 2005 | 09:27 PM

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my ex has a kentwood that changes color, ill ask her what model. one of the alpines changes color i believe. red is hard to match, green would be so much easier.

Feb 4, 2005 | 11:19 AM

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I have the perfect head unit. It is called the Panasonic Ghost face. Touch screen and you can make everything illuminatered. I have it. Try to post some pictures.

Feb 4, 2005 | 12:00 PM

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Although the deck is a few years old, the Alpine CDA-852 is 1.5 din and you can choose between green or amber as the lighting.

Feb 5, 2005 | 01:20 AM

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I got a hold of an older rockford fosgate 8140 that has an amber illumination and a green illumination, the amber one matches almost perfectly with the factory gauges. The cd player is also simple and very powerful.

Feb 5, 2005 | 08:34 AM

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See sig for my head unit. It's got a ton of colors for both display and buttons. The red goes pretty well with gauges, but since my car is NBM, I usually have red buttons (only button choices are red and green) and the blue face.

-Mike