Did anyone here put a new radio in yet. I was thinking about it but wondered about how much it would cost and what a good one would be without spending too much.

 

i have thought about it but didnt act on it yet. guy at best buy said he was looking in to it to see what he could get me and has not gotten back to me yet.

 

If you have sync don't do it...unless you have a really good installer that knows what they're doing...you can lose some functions.

 

Keep the stock unit and add a small amp and some aftermarket speakers with either a line out converter to do it cheap or a sound processor to make it sound better. you could spend anywhere from $400 and up for a decent system without going nuts, or you could go all out and drop $1000 before doing subs but that will get you some high end components and a nice multi channel amp.

 

No one can give you a price w/o knowing what you're looking for in a radio.

Do you just want to listen to music or are you looking for a jammin system with DVD, nav, and all the other bells and whistles?

FWIW, I bought a Pioneer Avic 120bt from 6ave.com for $898 not long after the radio was released.

 

I'd also suggest looking to see if you can find Pioneer,s older Z110bt, which isnt that big a diffrence then the 120bt. Then get a Scoshe install kit, and a metra wiring harness, and you can have some much better sound, Nav, handsfree calling. Yuor stock speakers will actually even sound better b/c there is a built in cross over which you can cross over at like 63hz high pass and remove most of the bass that is distorting the stock speakers which they cant reproduce anyway

 

Actually, mine is a 110bt. The 110bt and the 120bt are physically IDENTICAL. The only differences are software... you can upgrade the 110bt to the 120bt software by following the instructions on www.avic411.com....

 

I amped my factor head unit and changed all four speaks, and added a sub and amp and it soulds really good. Didn't need to change head units since all I do is listen to my ipod through the sync.

 

F1Fiddy - how much did it run you what did you install?

I wanted to keep the stock radio also, was thinking of using the Kicker ZXSUM8 and for an amp the alpine pdx5M 5 channel 75w RMS x 4 and 300w RMS x 1 then alpine componet speakers in the front. one 10' sub in the back.