Replacement headunit options that suit the E30 interior

[hendrixvodu]

Here's mine , full navigation "dated but works pretty damn good" , aux , cd , rds , sub out

Night time



Day time

[StereoInstaller1]

I think it was the Sonys before that one that MTriple is referring to. I know I did that color change a lot back in the day, and it was something like that.

BTW, Denon also sold the little light bulb condoms, in several colors, so they may be an actual part of something, maybe you could find orange ones

[15Michaeljoseph]

Older Sony's are capable of both green and amber illumination. I cant remember exactly, but you push a combination of buttons to switch. SEL and preset one maybe? I cant remember exactly, its been 20+ years...lol

Great period correct radio!

haha thanks! it is a great unit; about 20 years old and it sounds pretty good and tapes play really well in it!!

looked in the manual...nothing like that!! there was green rubber that i had to peel off the bulbs, so i don't think it's possible anyway.

to relate, I just repaired the cd43 from my mother's e36 and those backlight bulbs have the BMW amber color rubber on them...hmmmm. It's safe to assume that many units are like this... so if you're feeling like you need a change, go for it. grab a sharpie!


--Mike

[Mtriple]

heres daytime... night time coming soon. it was green before i swear. scouts honor. I might end up getting an orange sharpie and taking the red off with goof off or one of those products.


--Mike

Older Sony's are capable of both green and amber illumination. I cant remember exactly, but you push a combination of buttons to switch. SEL and preset one maybe? I cant remember exactly, its been 20+ years...lol

Great period correct radio!

[Ether-D]

Yeah, I like that. It looks great, nice job.

[15Michaeljoseph]

heres daytime... night time coming soon. it was green before i swear. scouts honor. I might end up getting an orange sharpie and taking the red off with goof off or one of those products.


--Mike

[Ether-D]

You might be able to change that though. last night I opened up the faceplate to my old Sony Am/Fm/cassette unit and messed around with the green bulbs inside. so on this unit, the screen backlights had green rubber on them. I pulled it off with little pliers, and colored the bulb with a red sharpie (I didn't have an orange damn it) and I colored over the green LED's that backlight the buttons. Put it all together again, plugged it back in...the screen is a bit more red than the OBC, and the buttons are barely visible at night, but I'll tell you, It's a HELL of a lot better than that damned green display. And it took very little time, and was free.

TBH I think the sound quality is better to my ears now because before I was too busy hating it over that green display to notice how good it really is!!!

if any of you guys want to see it I could post up a pic.


--Mike

I'll bite. Let's see that pic.

[15Michaeljoseph]

Replacement headunit options that suit the E30 interior

You might be able to change that though. last night I opened up the faceplate to my old Sony Am/Fm/cassette unit and messed around with the green bulbs inside. so on this unit, the screen backlights had green rubber on them. I pulled it off with little pliers, and colored the bulb with a red sharpie (I didn't have an orange damn it) and I colored over the green LED's that backlight the buttons. Put it all together again, plugged it back in...the screen is a bit more red than the OBC, and the buttons are barely visible at night, but I'll tell you, It's a HELL of a lot better than that damned green display. And it took very little time, and was free.

TBH I think the sound quality is better to my ears now because before I was too busy hating it over that green display to notice how good it really is!!!

if any of you guys want to see it I could post up a pic.


--Mike

[kameleon]

Shame about the blue illumination. That one above has almost perfectly matching backlighting.

[federal]

Looks nice, but what brand/model is it?

Mine is Roadstar.. I don't remember the model because I deleted all labels.
Pyle, sell the same headunit, but this one is blue ligthed unfortunally..

Pyle PLR26MPU In-Dash Receiver with AM/FM Radio, AUX Input for iPod/MP3 Players and SD/USB Flash Readers

http://amzn.com/B00BEU3FUW

[AndrewBird]

I've bought this one.. Chinese junk, but it has usb and memory card..

Looks nice, but what brand/model is it?

[Cgannon]

Does anyone have any knowledge on the brand Trevi? I found a cheap basic unit with only USB and AUX inputs but it looks basic with the amber backlight. Its a Trevi SDC5715

[kameleon]

It is good you can change colours on the decks these days though.

[elbrack]

The alpine CDE-103BT. Looks damn slick in an e30 interior. Also, the display/buttons have matching amber lights for night driving.



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Wish they still made that. :-\ None of their new models have Amber as an option.

[Neil1138]

The alpine CDE-103BT. Looks damn slick in an e30 interior. Also, the display/buttons have matching amber lights for night driving.



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