the_juddanaught
12-11-2011, 09:03 PM
Okay, my first car is a Magna. Won't give you the life story.
It's a TH Magna with, you guessed it, a fully hectick tape cassette player :eek2:
What I'm planning to do is, once I pay for it, and put fuel in it and a few bits and pieces, rip that old piece of technology out and put in a newer, more modern head unit.
Essentially, I'd like to
- Plug an iPod touch into it, but via a rear input on the unit and wire it in so it comes out either in the center console or in the change pocket area immediately forward from the center console. Why? Looks neater and since I'll most likely be listening to my own tunes versus the radio, I'd like it to be as neat and out of the way as possible.
- Have the backlight of the unit to reflect the same colour of the climate controls/instrument cluster/dash backlights. Do the knobs for fanspeed/etc have any illumination anyway?
Not keen to spend too much on it because in the rare event that someone elbows the window and nicks my shit, I don't want my first instinct to be "oh shit, my $1000 head unit's gone!"
Last, I might consider putting bigger and better speakers in. Like the head unit, I don't want to have the biggest, beefy-est speakers, just ones that do the job but a) won't cost me a butload and b) don't ruin the overall look of the car. Must like how you wouldn't buy a top range speaker system for a casual computer, just a set of alright speakers to do the job, without sounding bad.
Again, not trying to be picky but don't want to ruin the overall look of the car by chucking expensive/fancy/etc equipment in there, just stuff to do the job... better.
So reccomend me some options as to what I should get.
Cheers guys :)
It's a TH Magna with, you guessed it, a fully hectick tape cassette player :eek2:
What I'm planning to do is, once I pay for it, and put fuel in it and a few bits and pieces, rip that old piece of technology out and put in a newer, more modern head unit.
Essentially, I'd like to
- Plug an iPod touch into it, but via a rear input on the unit and wire it in so it comes out either in the center console or in the change pocket area immediately forward from the center console. Why? Looks neater and since I'll most likely be listening to my own tunes versus the radio, I'd like it to be as neat and out of the way as possible.
- Have the backlight of the unit to reflect the same colour of the climate controls/instrument cluster/dash backlights. Do the knobs for fanspeed/etc have any illumination anyway?
Not keen to spend too much on it because in the rare event that someone elbows the window and nicks my shit, I don't want my first instinct to be "oh shit, my $1000 head unit's gone!"
Last, I might consider putting bigger and better speakers in. Like the head unit, I don't want to have the biggest, beefy-est speakers, just ones that do the job but a) won't cost me a butload and b) don't ruin the overall look of the car. Must like how you wouldn't buy a top range speaker system for a casual computer, just a set of alright speakers to do the job, without sounding bad.
Again, not trying to be picky but don't want to ruin the overall look of the car by chucking expensive/fancy/etc equipment in there, just stuff to do the job... better.
So reccomend me some options as to what I should get.
Cheers guys :)