adamforeman
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Roverville-UK
Email: Roverville-UK@valornet.com
Sheffield
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or depending on what original car stereo you have already, replace with a new CD/mp3/bluetooth based latest headunit from Pioneer for £300 and you'll have equally the same quality with the benefit of MP3/WMA playback from CDR's and hands free mobile phone telephony as well.
adamforeman
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That simply isn't true. The P38's stereo in its time WAS very excellent quality.
Now? A stereo of around £300 or less will be of equal sound quality when changing the headunit.
It's the nature of technology, after years have gone by, there is a technological price crash as it gets cheaper and better....
Take a look at Pioneer or Blaupunkt specs....they simply match the ones the P38 had 13/14 years ago.....
Don't' take my word for it.....go listen to them plugged into decent car speakers.....all for about £300 or less.
redrenger89
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What's wrong with it Marty ?
problem is you have to look at the foul pioneer headunit.
adamforeman
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It's hardly foul and certainly more up to date design and technical wise than the cassette player of old that comes with the P38.....however you slice it, the P38's stereo is just simply too old and out of date and headunits from other manufacturers are cheaper and better equipped . . . . Bluetooth/Mp3/wma/AAC/CDR/iPod sockets etc etc etc
And you buy burr walnut radio blanks to fit either side to make it all neat again....
adamforeman
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None whatsoever if you don't have the dreaded Harmon Kardon system installed....if you do its more complicated. But if you don't its very simple indeed and should look something like this once installed.
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Doobs too
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LOL, I do have that very system!! What's so special / difficult about it? I assumed it was just speakers.
Do your steering wheel buttons work the new head unit? Is there an accronym I need to look for to allow that functionality?
Dorset VogueSE
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The Harmon Kardon system has seperate amps fitted in each door to drive the speakers and therefore the output of the head unit is designed for this. A standard head unit wont work without quite a bit of messing about. I'm sure others have done it and will gladly give advice. I know it may look a bit dated but I think the system sounds pretty good
adamforeman
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The P38 is hardly a Model T ford! Its a Range Rover of which the last version that rolled off the production line was only 6 years ago.....I hardly think its a car to keep official parts on the car.
adamforeman
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Depends on what you have as the original headunit, looks like the Alpine XQD10158OLNF. I think that one was the bottom end of the stereos that you could have installed on purchase and went up to the Hardon Kardon system.
See what price it goes for.....but don't be surprised if someone buys it for silly money.....the last P38 stereo I watched on eBay went for £460....and for that price you don't get MP3/Bluetooth/iPod connectors etc etc.
If you can get a Harmon Kardon unit with a six pack CD that all works, as in the HSE spec, you have to go a long way to get a better sound and volume..have a look on flea bay for a couple of weeks or so they do crop up. Team it up with either matching speakers if poss or some new decent quality jobs from a car audio supplier and the good ole rock moosic still craps on the boom box saxos, pugs and corsas.....and car still retaining original RR fitments has to look better surely?????????????????
adamforeman
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Doobs too
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I'm not of the 22" spinners, TV's in head rests and blue washer jet lights brigade but I do think keeping the original stereo only for reasons of originality in what is my daily driver might be cutting off my nose to spite my face. I agree nothing will match the interior like the original but mine is not nice to use. It is the HK one but the case of the head unit interferes with the vol knob, the display doesn't show the name of the radio station and I lobbed my tapes years ago, I need MP3 functionality now.
I was going to say I'd keep the original head unit for when I've finished using the car and I'm ready to donate it to a museum but if it'll get me £460 on ebay guess where it's going!!
Anyone know where I can get the spec of the inputs the door amps require? Will a standard pre-out do?
I was going to say I'd keep the original head unit for when I've finished using the car and I'm ready to donate it to a museum but if it'll get me £460 on ebay guess where it's going!!
Anyone know where I can get the spec of the inputs the door amps require? Will a standard pre-out do?
