Just thought I would share some pics of my project from yesterday. It came out good because I made sure to do a lot of searching before I installed it myself. I was a little unsure of buying this Alpine HU because my primary source was going to be an ipod, and i had read problems with other of alpine's new HU regarding the ipod. This is not the case with this one (at least with my 5th generation ipod with bout 1500 songs) it works great and the speakers sound way better than with the stock head unit. If you have an older ipod you would need to buy a different cable. Also the colors can be changed from blue to red. The memory stick works good too but im not sure if it can shuffle those songs. What do you guys think?

 

Nice. I love Alpine

 

Looks good! I had no problems with my Alpine CDA-9885 w/ iPod connection and you can control the iPod through the head unit. It just got stolen monday though, so im buying a CDA-9886 tomorrow.

 

This is the deck I'll be buying, once my discount at Best Buy opens up that is

Looks great!

 

looks awesome! I'm gonna be changing out my CDA-9856 for one soon. Quick question... how'd you get your hvac control lights to be that blue? thanks.

 

I was going to install the 9886 as well until I heard the 9886 may have trouble interfacing with the new i-pods from the dealer who installed my 9885. You may want to ask just in case.

 

You just change it in the settings. One of the options gives you the ability to change colors from red to blue etc.

 

My hvac lights are not blue, they are the stock white. Pics were with my phone so they seam a little blue. The HU you can change it in the settings like mdinubil said.

 

Its a great unit we just got em in stock the other day and so far its been flawless. The percentage search is much better this time around.

 

Nice. It looks great. I just bought this unit myself and am installing it this evening.

 

very nice!! i have the model below that model

 

Looks good man!

 

sweet... i have alpine everything..