Seriously impressive install...

[Midds]

Have just had a Parrott MKi9000 kit installed in my 550 by the guy that does a lot of specialist cars near Nottingham. The install is amazing... He's fitted the controller (phone & iPod/.mp3 player/USB stick) into the ashtray (I took out the plastic tray- just pulls out - and kept the lighter for plugging things into) so when it is closed you can't see it. The iPod connector / jack plug / USB input is in the glovebox with a ridiculously neat install.

Finally the microphones are undetectable unless you try and look (they are mounted behind the Reading light cluster).

I'll try and post a pic later, but I am gobsmacked, especially as I was cr@pping it that he would damage the car in some small way.

So I drove back from a meeting to take a call from my wife (great quality) and streaming music into the Becker headunit from my iPhone via Bluetooth - awesome!

[cronk-flakes]

Sounds great!

Make sure you get some pics up!

[bertie]

I've got a funny itch for a 550 or 575 and you've just not helped it again!

[Midds]

If you want you can call me while I'm full throttling across snake pass and that'll help even less as you hear the engine through the kit...

[Midds]

Here you go (car still a bit grimy after a weeks hard use, but you get the idea...)

[cronk-flakes]

Looks good!

Love the colour and gearbox choice!

550 is one of my all-time favourite F-cars!

[SonnyM]

Cool. Does this dude have a website? Does he do full ICE| installs too?

[Midds]

I think he does everything including vehicle security, PM me if you want details - you'd have to ask him about specifics

[Roop]

That looks very tidy indeed. Nice job

[Dino550]

How much did it cost?

[okgo]

Were you there when he did it??

I used to work somewhere that did these, it all looked good when done, but the beating he used to have to give some dashboards to get them back in was quite worrying

[Midds]

£220 all in and I was there for bits of it and he was super gentle with it. He analyses Everything before starting and he came out to recon the car and install before agreeing the job. It's the 3rd one he's done for me and each one was ace

[Dr G]

What's the sound quality like with ipod use? I've played with these kits a couple of times and been a bit disappointed; sounded like listening to a cassette.

[Midds]

Really good - arguably not as good as with CD when really loud, but only because iPod creates it's own bass and treble volumes which means your head unit settings need adjusting.

Slightly worse if you use 3.5mm jack plug ans I haven't tried the USB thing yet

all in all am very happy

[willd58]

Midds said:

Really good - arguably not as good as with CD when really loud, but only because iPod creates it's own bass and treble volumes which means your head unit settings need adjusting.

Slightly worse if you use 3.5mm jack plug ans I haven't tried the USB thing yet

all in all am very happy

The USB thing should be as good as CD if the tracks on the iPod are lossless and you can turn off all the iPod EQ settings I believe.