Aftermarket headunit from China

[GTI JOE]

Thanks Joeyjoejoe, looking very much forward to the report. Hope all goes well man

[Joeyjoejoe]

Bad new guys... they installed all the wiring and such, but then discovered the head unit was dead on arrival, they could not get it to power up at all. unit came with 1 yr warrenty, so im going to send it back to china shortly to have it replaced. Still got charged $212 for the time. But the GPS ant, Mic and Wiring for the reverse cam are all in, so it will be cheap to have the unit put in once its replaced.

[GTI JOE]

Sorry to hear that dude Hope all goes well with the exchange, keep us posted!

[Joeyjoejoe]

All right, the exchange is all sorted out, finally arrived back from China. I've booked the Install for Monday 23/5. In the meantime.. I've also bought a Boss BASS1500 10" low profile Car Amplified Subwoofer off Ebay for $230 Aud:
I've already checked and it wont fit under the seats, but I plan to have it installed in the very lowest section of the boot and the lid should fit over the top without issues, I'm going to cut a hole in the boot lid and put some sort of grill to allow sound through it but not dropping stuff onto the bass cone. (like when there is shopping in the boot ect) So I'm going to get the Sub/Amp installed on Monday at the same time. Wish me luck! I'll post pics / vids when it is finally done and this multi-month long saga concludes.

[noone]

Good luck mate, a no-name head unit, boss powered low form sub, don't expect too much improvement.

[Frostee]

Good luck mate, a no-name head unit, boss powered low form sub, don't expect too much improvement.

Dim Sum tastes good, but shortly after you get hungry again and realise you should have paid for a better feed.

You get what you pay for, however I really hope this is an exception for the Joey

[broxigar1983]

Good luck mate, a no-name head unit, boss powered low form sub, don't expect too much improvement.

Factory head units are from Blaupunkt, and Blaupunkt know what they do. My sound system is rocking, no need to replace the head unit IMO

[Joeyjoejoe]

Good luck mate, a no-name head unit, boss powered low form sub, don't expect too much improvement.

Its pretty easy to improve on ****house, the stock head unit that came with my Polo is crap, sound isnt so much the issue as it is functionality, at the moment, it plays CD's, and Mp3's via the Audio imput jack. The new unit has a reverse cam, will be playing mp3s via Sd card, supports Multiple Gps applications, supports Bluetooth phonecalls, Is highly moddable and customizable being WinCe6.
and can play movies/dvd's If I feel the need, (and will be able to output movies via my Pico Projector by re-purposing one of the outputs for secondary screens designed to output to headrest LCD panels)
Wow so many haters on these forums, pfft fine you go spend $2k on the stock one + Bluetooth kit + install costs to find you have far less functionality than my head unit will (hence why i took this path, I saw what the RNS could do and thought wow people really pay that much for this POS? When you can buy a kickass laptop for sub $500 these days why would I plonk $1000 on a unit with less power than my mobile phone). The VW RNS stock unit has a 400mhz processor as opposed to the 600 Mhz processor my unit has, but the VW one is twice the price. Paying $1000 for anything with only 400Mhz of grunt is foolish IMO, maybe back in the 90's this would have been acceptable, but not with the current price level of equivalent tech. Besides I'm a modder at heart, and love to be able to tinker with WinCe6 os, this i could not do with the stock one either.
The sub is to improve bass, thats it, i don't need a 20" sub to boost the bass to a sufficient level that I want, 10" shall be fine for my needs. I want better bass response than the 4 built in speakers (that i don't plan on changing), not louder bass response, so any cheap sub is going to provide that, its not ever going to be cranked to 120Db where it would presumably distort, I'm not installing it for competitive sub comps, just to give me a richer low end when playing tunes at a non-ear bleeding level.
Amazed at how many negative comments are on this thread.

[Frostee]

Glad it's worked out for you. My negativity of cheap Chinese gear is from personal expeience. Pleased to hear you've found some kit that performs. I hope it lasts for you.

[sVWatt]

Keen to hear results of the sub unit - looks good

the RNS doesnt really rock in any particular field - it's just that its a VW unit - easy replacement and integrates GPS and touch etc,

this sub might just add some Q bling to the car