New Double DIN Head Unit

[doogz]

Fitted my new head unit at the weekend, thought I'd post about it here, in case anyone's interested.

My car came with the Sony unit, that seems to have been fitted from new in some cars, and not in others? Double DIN thing with a tape deck on it? Anyway, the CD player in mine was gubbed, so it had to go. Had been looking about for a while, and stumbled across one of these, brand new in it's box, going cheap:



I'd never heard of "Scott" before, but the thing looked the part, seemed to have all the functions I was after, and was cheap enough, that if it was crap, I'd punt it on, take the hit, and buy something else.

So, it came on Saturday, first problem I encountered was taking the old unit out. Didn't take too long to figure out which bits of trim had to come out, however i then realised the new cage that came with the new unit was going to be no use, the head unit has to mount onto the side brackets. Except the bolt pattern was slightly different. 2 minutes with the brackets on the work bench and a hammer sorted that problem, and the thing fits.

Next issue. The wiring loom it came with, matched the head unit, but not the car. The loom in the car, didn't match the head unit. Time to get the snips out!

Half an hour of hamfisted cable butchering later, it worked!

Next to route the GPS aerial up to the windscreen area somewhere. Had a look about, tried to figure out how to do it, then decided to try just sticking it on the side of the head unit mounting bracket, the aerial was magnetic. Turns out that's the perfect place for it, had no issues whatsoever with the GPS signal.

So, put the trim back together, and job done! The thing takes a 32gig SD card full of music or videos, has a seperate SD slot for the GPS maps, which makes them easy to update, I can just take the card out, stick it in the laptop and DL the latest updates, it plays DVDs, CDs,MP3's, everything basically, apart from bluray.

The GPS/sat-nav is actually very good. The display is excellent, and it gives you plenty of information; speed, heading, what's coming up next, and what's coming up after that too, meaning you can plan ahead, make sure you're in the correct lane, etc.



I like the thing that much I'm considering buying one for the 4x4 as well!

[onion86]

Nice, I have wondered on some of these things whether they'd be up to standard, a few have some horrible user interfaces on them but I've not seen a Scott one before either. Glad you're happy with it. I thought it would've come with an ISO lead?

[doogz]

Nice, I have wondered on some of these things whether they'd be up to standard, a few have some horrible user interfaces on them but I've not seen a Scott one before either. Glad you're happy with it. I thought it would've come with an ISO lead?

I spotted a lot of cheap chinese efforts when I was looking, but this company, "Scott" seem to make some reasonably high end electronics. Home stuff. Stereos, IPod docks, monitors, things like that. Their website was working last week, but seems to be down just now.

It came with an ISO lead, but my MR2 didn't seem to have the standard connections? I should have taken pictures, but I forgot. Either way, it wasn't a major hassle to sort.

[onion86]

Yeah you need a Toyota to ISO lead which are a few quid from eBay like this , could've saved a little bit of hacking.

I only bought a new single din a few months ago when I bought the new '2 but should've seen those guys first.

[doogz]

Ah, yes, that would have saved some hassle. I had a quick look on the halfords website, but they'd have had to order me one in, so I just cracked on with it.