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Boatycall
Jun 15, 2012Explorer
Mello Mike wrote:Boatycall wrote:
Today's project, take out the junkie Kenwood Mp3/cd stereo and put in a much nicer double-din Kenwood touch screen am/fm/dvd.
I want to do this mod, too, Boatycall. If you don't mind me asking, what model Kenwood did you buy?
I had a slightly older DNX5140 kicking around on the shelf. Double din, touchscreen, dvd, and gps/nav. I have 3 of them actually, one in my Jeep, and one more in my truck.
Catch is, the GPS/nav on this one didn't work and Kenwood wanted $350 to fix it. Then it dawned on me yesterday to toss it in the camper. Since I have the same one with a working gps in the truck, I figure if I'm so drunk I need GPS to get me from the bunk to the toilet, I'm in serious trouble.
I'll go get a picture of it in the camper. This is the same one in truck...with it's gps working.

The reason I have 3 of these---
I am an avid audio nut. I've done car/home/industrial audio for 20+ years. Alpine was my flavor of choice for years(for decks only), then I got a deal on one of these and I was hooked. It has everything---
*GPS built in, made by Garmin
*DVD/CD, that works when you're going down the road(for the passengers)
*Built in crossover for it's own internal 50w x 4 amp - just add an amp for a sub, and you don't need a mid/highs amp. Or at least I haven't.
*USB port for ipod or thumb drive
*MP3 player via a home burned CD or thumb drive(I have a 16Gb thumb drive plugged into them)
*Rear View Camera input
*Three band PARAMETRIC eq - for those of you who know what that is, that's awesome to have built in.
*Add on HDRadio, Sirius or XM. I plan on getting the HDRadio add on box, I've had it before on other radios, works great, and it's less than $80 on Ebay.
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