ICE ICE baby.

[Randell Floyd]

I'm going to be moving soon due to a new job and the amount of time I spend in the car is now ICE upgrade worthy. I would want to probably spend around £600, which will have to include installation by a professional as I'm very likely to do a bad job of it so would rather it done right.


What should I be looking at asking for in the install? I have the back seat out and the boot in use as I carry my mountain bike in the car a lot, so I don't see any subs going in there, bar maybe a wheel well one?

I was thinking along the lines of

HU - £250
16.5cm - £150
Labour - £100?

Then do I need rear speakers at all, and do most 16.5cm come with tweeters? And at what point is a amp a good idea?

Thanks for any ideas, I've never really installed any ICE before as most of the cars I've bought the previous owners had done some good work on it.

Cars a Mk1 vRS Octavia btw.

 

[JohnnyG]

It ended up 5-1 to Spurs

 

[Gooner14]

Nedved Off!!!!

 

[DreXeL]

It's only football.

 

[monkeyspank]

An amp is a good idea now No head unit will put out anywhere near enough power to get a set of 6.5" speakers singing nicely. Just something small, JBL do good budget amps, dunno, about £60 for a 2 channel maybe?

 

[markk]

It ended up 5-1 to Spurs

Nedved Off!!!!

It's only football.

lol

 

[Hunders]

I am going to be buying this headunit once my wiring is sorted:
http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/alpine-cda9855r-p-4173.html

Alpine stuff is always good.

 

[LeoN88]

I am going to be buying this headunit once my wiring is sorted:
http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/alpine-cda9855r-p-4173.html

Alpine stuff is always good.

ive had that since it came out pretty much. A very good headunit although only annoyin thing on it is the slide bar takes a while to get used to but once uve sorted all ** settings u generally done using it but there are loads of settings on this . A+ though recommended h/u