I have been outta the car audio game for probly close to 8 years now, back when I was 16/17 the cool thing to do was get an alpine mp3 cd player, the largest amp and largest set of 10's you could fit and rattle your licence plate and rust off.

I've been thinking about getting a dvd head unit for my nnbs.
I don't have bose, I do have Bluetooth-onstar & steering wheel controls, I also have XM and a factory USB port
I'd like to do this install as clean as possible and maintain everything I can.

lets start with a head unit, I've been seeing nothing but bad reviews on Alpine, slow, freezes, no updates, not user friendly.
Has anyone tried this Pioneer AVH-X8500BHS?
or how about the Kenwood DDX-770

I'm open to suggestions on those.

to maintain OnStar, looks like this PAC OS-4 is what I'd need

to maintain the factory blue tooth and cell phone stuff looks like I'd need a PAC Blu-GM29

to maintain factory XM or at least the most important part...the factory antenna! would this I-simple HDRT be what I need?

for the steering wheel controls is this the one? Pac-SWI-RC

am I missing anything haha?

 

I found this "package" from PAC
and it combines 2 of those from above, the OS-4 and the SWI-RC
RP5-GM31

whatever happened to the days you needed 1 wiring harness that cost like $60 and was about 12 wires haha (sometimes I miss my 01 dime)

 

judging by the lack of replies everyones as stumped as me!

feel free to let me know your setup and what module/install stuff you went with!

 

I went with a eclipse avn 726e. Go to crutchfield.com for the modules. I am running 2 18s off 6k rms.

 

which module did you grab from them? there's a few to choose from.
do you have the factory USB spot? I'm curious if I can just "pop" that one out and install the head units usb cable back into that spot

 

I'm not sure about the modules to keep the instant and hand controls (I have strip down model) but as for your question between the pioneer and kenwood, I'd go pioneer all day. That one might even be active capable. I prefer pioneers over kenwood because usually pioneer had a better eq to set slope and sometimes time alignment

 

im not sure if its out yet but a PAC-OS5 will do all those things u mentioned in one unit. i dont know of any interface that will allow you to use the factory usb. and id go with a pioneer

 

I found this OGM-1 unit and it seems almost to good to be true
9 band EQ, dual zone, sub control
4 rca outputs plus sub
DVD capability (with a bypass for moving use )
and they claim its %100 plug and play, retains factory everything


I'm gonna have to research this one and see the cost

 

Thats the one i've been looking at. Everything I've read says its straight up that good. That being said not sure if it would meet an audiophile's sound quality requirements, at least haven't read it yet..
Email the Walt fella that everyone is talking about he'll have you a price within a few hours.

 

Rosen PR-GM1210-US/CS-GM1210, have you looked at this?