Well, I have finally de-sonyized my car. It is now all alpine (CD Player and sub), Planet Audio (Amp, soon to be JBL, its on its way), and Boston Accoustic (6x9's and soon 4x6's). The alpine is the CDA-9815, MP3 and WMA Compatable, iPersonalize feature, MX, XM radio capable, tilt, blue illumination on a black background, removable face, and all sorts of other neat do hickeys and diddlys. Payed for it from an authorized alpine dealer, so that kinda hurt (a $534.12 hurt) but it was graduation money. I told myself that I would spend half and save half. Well, I ended up with $1200 in grad. money (Plus the $2000 Dell laptop Im using now ). So The other 5 sumthin is now in a savings account. I think I did pretty damn good . Here is a pic, I'll get some from my car tomorrow, and does anyone else have this headunit?

 

oops, the pic :P

 

Thats EXACTLY what I want to do. Get that 9815 deck and get rid of my crappy Sony MobileES deck.

 

That's it Disturb, I'm driving to Kansas and stealing your deck!!!
That's the exact one I wanted but funds no longer allow it.

 

Thank *** for graduation money After spending $534.12 on the deck, and depositing $150 in my checking, I STILL had $420 to put into my savings account . I love graduation

 

Here are some pics i snapped w/ my GF's digital camera. Sorry, I dont have them uploaded so I have to post them one at a time.

 

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#3...and that's it. what do you think?

 

I think for spending over 500 dollars it's pretty plain looking. I'd rather look at my Pioneer DEH-P8500MP for half the price.

 

plain looking, but the thing has quite a few capabilities! You can download customized eq parameteres from the computer onto it....hehe That's the deck i've been looking into....but $500? you can get em for 379.99 off of Ebay?

- Andy

 

nice deck, but you definitely got ripped with that price man. those things go on ebay for $350 all day.

 

He didnt get ripped. He bought it from an authorized alpine dealer. So he also purchased the alpine support. You buy off of ebay and it busts, you just might be sol.

Brian

 

i believe the factory warranty covers it for a period of time, just seems you could do a lot more with that extra $200.

where in central CA are you 89BlackGTA?

that 1/4 time is pretty impressive with that few of mods, i hope mine runs that well!

 

I hear ya on the extra $200. But, if you want to buy from an auth dealer, you have to pay more.

I am in a little crap town, Porterville.

Brian

 

Great deck. I love Alpine and have used them for a long time. I'm sure you'll be very happy.

Congrats on graduation

 

Thanx for all the compliments. I know 500 is quite a bit and i know that Ikesound sells them for 4 sumthin but i wanted to get rid of my sony and I didnt want to wait for ikesounds slow *** to ship me one. Its taking them forever on my 1200.1. I ordered a month ago and they still havent shipped it...and they've already taken the payment. As for looking plain...if I were to have bought one that I wanted to look at all day chances are I would be dead already from a car wreck. I have a hard enough time searching thru an MP3 cd and driving in the city...its easier to just put it on mix cd and let it go. And it looks awesome at night w/ the blue glow. plus, what it lacks in movie playing it makes up in sound quality, functionality, and non-skipping capability...to me, when you have to put a slide out tray in a cd player *cough*sony*cough* to keep it from skipping, you shouldnt be making CD players. Plus, the search feature kicks *** .

 

DISTURBthePEACE, where did you get all that silver plastic around it and onthe shifter? that looks cool. BTW, nice stereo!

 

I could be wrong but i thought I read somewhere that they were out of the bp1200.1 not positive but you might check it out.

 

You know... an option for all those of you that do that spray painting the interior thing is that new line of Krylon paint that is supposed to stick to plastics. You can also usually find Stainless, aluminum, or chrome guage bezel and shifter/console overlays on Ebay.

 

Ive been lookin for some aluminum or carbon fiber things to go around the shifter, stereo, gauges, and hand brake.

 

the only thing i can find on e-bay is the gauge bezel. I am looking for an overlay for the console. Does anyone know where i can find one?