I heard some people say they break if you have a stiff suspension. What's your experience? What do you have and would you get the more traditional headunit next time? How would you do your custom Nav radio set up if you didn't get the factory Nav and why? Thanks.

 

Well, from experience, my last car had the alpine iva-c800 (motorized LCD). I didn't tell it to flip in automatically when power was turned off, and didn't put it away very often. Even then, it still wore out faily quickly, not too sure if i'ts being better engineered these days, but its just too much weight for the tiny motor that moves it. I even sought out the motors from a website (pac parts i think) and replaced them, no difference whatsover. The whole mechanism wore out. I'll probably never use one again.

 

Thanks, that's what I was worried about. I wish they just made a non flip do it all screen.

 

They do....

Kenwood KDC-7015

 

My bad, I meant I wish Alpine did. That KDC is the one that I'm looking at though.

 

I've had the Alpine D900 for about a year and have wondered the same thing. Mine is set to stay up until I put it down as well. Everytime it folds down I wonder if it is going to open back up. No problems yet.