HI,
I will get back to you on the others but my personal comments are for the Innovatech - mp3playerstore.
I saw their products on eBay.. then noticed that they have a store only 10 minutes away from me here in Montreal their head office... I will be blunt...The place is a dump. The service is lousy and their products... will not go into my X-Trail. I am putting two LCD monitors into the front headrests and I want a quality unit. When I looked at theirs it was let's say not what I had hoped for.
I was hoping for a better quality product and I waited for a while before getting served.. the store is a mess, the product is ok... but not up to or near the standards of Sony, Kenwood, Alpine, etc.
As for places to mount.. you can remove the main head unti from Nissan but you need a box to fill it!!! or you will see brackets and wires... as for teh empy boxes now... yes it is a regular din and a great place to use which I did for my GPS system DVD unit.
Under the big compartment in the center dash, remove the side panels and you have a perfect opening to put items... it is a lage empty cavity... I also placed items in the side wall frott passenger on the floor near the feet...also a large cavity.
I purchases some of my items from a place here in Montreal that I also sent Marc (Valboo) to as well. The prices were great compared to crutchfield. ..
http://www.aps.qc.ca/
Speak to Gaetan or Robert .. they know me and and Marc. First X-Trails to buy from them.
Stephen
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Originally Posted by Winterpeg
Considering we have a few people here who seem to have experience adding equipment to their X-Trails, I thought I'd throw this out:
I'm looking at the following stereo equipment and I'm looking for some installation suggestions (links are at the bottom):
Sony CDX-F7715x deck
Sony XA-300 audio switch
Innovatek 7" VGA/USB touch screen
Notebook with WinXP
Optional: Sony 10-disc changer
I don't own an X-Trail yet, but when I test drove one I noticed it has lots of nooks and crannys. I'm thinking to mount the deck in the empty slot in the dash and then take out the factory deck and leave that as a storage space. The audio switcher would be mounted somewhere near the passenger seat (perhaps underneath) so that headphones, notebook, PS2, etc can be easily plugged in. A CD changer could go in the back perhaps in one of the side compartments near the rear hatch but I'm not sure if I'll bother if I can run MP3's off the laptop.
I have a power inverter, that I'd like to install as well. Originally I was thinking to plug it in the back 12V connecter, but I might hardwire it to the battery and then find a discreet location for it. Any ideas? Ideally it would be somewhere near the front so that any devices that need power can easily be plugge
d in.
The notebook will connect to the USB connector on the audio switch and I'll leave it closed with the 7" touch screen connected for controlling MP3 and playing other video devices. I'm thinking when the screen is not in use I can rest it in the storage space in the dash where the factory deck used to be.
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-BiDejle...715X&s=0&cc=01
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-RXW9N73...nfo&i=158XA300
http://www.mp3playerstore.com/stuff_...l/IN-740VT.htm |