I bought the Alpine CDA-9857 HU from best buy, and the dude there in the audio section told me the unit changes colors. Right now its that nasty green and has bright blue buttons, anyone know if you can change the green color to red or how to take apart a deck to change the lights. I think ill return it if I cant get the right color change. Pain in the as that would not make the interior lighting all one color......would love to punch the guy that over looked that.

 

no the guy at bestbuy was wrong. you may be able to change the lights in the buttons because the UK version has red/orange buttons or just switch to the UK Hu face plate. the display will always be the greyish/green/blue colors.

 

Well thats good to know but where would I just find a head unit? ebay?

 

yeah, or go through alpine im sure they can get you the UK unit.

 

Track down a cda-9855 like I did. You can still find new models if you search.

 

the faceplates r not cheap

 

anyone have any other reccomendations? I was considernig the kenwood KDC-X890 but there were some 50/50 reviews about not being to see it properly in the day and it not being user friendly...