Any of you guys have any experience w/ flipout LCDs? I had a Pioneer which the motor to flip the screenout broke so I'm being cautious about buying another one. I was looking at some Kenwood units but I'm worried about the same thing happening. Any advice?

 

Kenwood is decent. Alpine is nice. Eclipse is TOTL.

 

Interesting...becuase Pioneer are the best of the bunch. Did you have a high end model? The new ones, like the 6500 and 7500, are amazing. My friend has the 7500 in his black evo and my god is it cool.

 

Double DIN is where it's at...

 

Clarion makes good ones, i've had them and had no problems.

o and diesel guess what, i went to the darkside after u criticized me telling me that i would never get an evo. i guess you were right... hows urs doing? sell it yet? if u lowered ur price i probably woula bought it cause it was one of the cleanest ones out there.

 

ive ad no problems with alpine or pioneer... in your case i would take the extended warranty on it...so it clears you from stuff like that

 

Alpine is at the top of my list and my entire set up is Eclipse. I am planing on going with the Alpine IVA-D300 sometime.

 

I recently took a look at the Kenwood Excelsion. I liked the high-end model because the motorized tray could be set up to extend pretty far before flipping the head out.

Is this a pretty typical feature with in-dash flip-out LCD's?

This is important to me because I'm running Hardy's gauge panel and my head unit is in the lower cubby slot, which means any flip out unit would have to be able to clear the "overhang".

 

Damned, my pioneer screen motor just broke!

 

it breaks becasue you press to hard. I've got at AVH-P6500DVD (pioneer). All i gotta say is it's godly. Haven't paid anything for it yet either :-)

 

eclipse is top of the line, they are consistently top of the game in competiton, and screen clarity is top notch. and eclipse isnt your "best buy equipment" like pioneer is. it is completely competition level.

i have ran AV 7002, AV8022, AV8134, and have also installed countless pioneers, clarions, PWD's, and Kenwoods, and the eclipse is just...better..in everything.

 

save your money, and build a small computer w/ a flip out touchscreen. about half the price and you get all that storage on the hard drive.
jeremy

 

cool idea, you can get little 6" LCD Touchscreens alone for like 250 bucks with composite in.

 

check out this thread for some pics of a car pc setup....
you can run navi, dvd, ps2, whatever the heck you want!!!
jeremy

 

forgot to mention. the serial port in the pc allows for a hyperterminal session right into your utec!!! no more laptop to lug around.