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PostPosted: 15:12 - 21 Jun 2013    Post subject: Car Stereo question Reply with quote

Last car thread I promise. Laughing

I'm after a new stereo for my future car, I don't want to spend loads sub £200 with fitting kit ideally.

I want it to have a USB so I can play music from a pendrive.
I want it to be able to work with the existing ford stalk controls volume/skip etc.
I want to be able to use it with my iphone to...
A play music from Spotify
B have the phone handfree (i.e. the stereo has a microphone on it)

DAB would be nice.

Other than that I'm not bothered don't care about playing DVD's (or CD's really)

It's going in a Fiesta and it can have a double din sized thing.
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PostPosted: 15:45 - 21 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

I put one of:

https://www.maplin.co.uk/bluetoothandreg-cd-mp3-car-stereo-with-usb-sd-mmc-interface-224868

...in my car. Does everything you've asked for except integrate with the car steering wheel controls, although the built in microphone works but isn't super sensitive, so at speed you have to TALK QUITE LOUDLY for it to pick you up.

However, if you're planning on playing music from the phone via bluetooth (which is basically what I use it for 95% of the time) then you might find that the track skip commands are hard to get working - not impossible, but a lot of stereos will only support bluetooth call control and audio streaming, but not anything more complex (like track control).
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PostPosted: 09:37 - 22 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

As much as I loathe to recommend them, Halfords do stereos that fulfil all of your requirements for under £100 and fitting is £30.
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