Ebay/China's best single DIN touchscreen stereo

[Smitters]

I'm toying with the idea of a touchscreen that can do DAB and also display outputs from my OBDII scanner via bluetooth, in lieu of a set of dials and gauges.

Obviously I could spend £££ on a top end unit, but as I don't want the stereo to cost more than the car ( The Blue stter ), can anyone recommend from experience one of the ebay specials that float about for £200 or so? Or even give me some insight into them?

ETA - this for example: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/7-Single-DIN-DAB-Radio-...

Thanks in advance.

Edited by Smitters on Thursday 4th April 17:47

[joropug]

I was in the same boat with my shed but it's 100 percent worth getting an Android unit makes the car so much more modern feeling.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Mine is Pumpkin brand and they do a slide out single din universal one too. Mine is Vauxhall specific comes with a canbus adaptor that means steering wheels and my OEM screen work great .

https://www.autopumpkin.co.uk/single-din-car-stere...

Mine is octocore with 4gb ram, paid 220 on eBay .

[Smitters]

Interesting - I feel like it's a worthy experiment, but it's still not small change to chuck away. I'm more tempted by something from a known company, but that extra £100 or so probably pushes it out of budget. That's a set of tyres!

Any other thoughts on the cheapo ebay specials?

[InitialDave]

I've used both Eonon and Seicane double DIN Android units, and they're a pretty decent all in one solution, so broadly speaking this sort of thing's worth looking at. Frankly, I think they're pretty much all made in one factory and get a differnt logo and bootup screen bunged onto them.

I'm currently investigating whether I can mildly hack about my ZS dash to get a shallow double DIN unit in without a ridiculous amount of work, but a "full depth" one pretty much 100% won't fit, there's not enough space between the heater control gubbins below and the heater vent ducting above, even if you trim out some of the material from the dash frame. But I do think you can get

I've not tried one of the flip-out units, but presumably they'd have the same kind of functionality as the others.

Another option might be a head unit that your phone clips into, like this:
https://www.halfords.com/technology/car-audio/car-...
Interestingly, they use an old Golf for the "fitted" shots.

[RangeyRover]

The slide out ones I find far too wobbly for a useful touch screen.
The fixed ones, like merc have had for a while seem cool, if you can tolerate it permanently fixed in position.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JOYING-7In-Single1-Din-...

[InitialDave]

Kind of a moot point for the OP, as I know he's moving on to a different car now, but for closing out the subject for anyone else who finds the thread in future, yes, you can do it with a low-profile head unit and some fabrication:



Generic Chinese SWM 9218 Android based head unit, about £60. Hazard and heated rear window switches from another Honda (specifically a Japanese market S-MX), with the wiring tweaked to suit the different pinouts.

Surround is modified from the standard centre console with a 3D printed mount bonded in and blended with filler, then sprayed in satin black plastidip.

[Smitters]

Fair play - took me a minute to realise what that was in! Cracking effort.

As it happens, then new vehicle has a dodgy double din unit, so I'll be enjoying experimentation anyway.

The reason I looked for a single DIN was because the vehicle I had in mind ultimately can only have single din, but won't take an OBD adaptor so it's moot. The answer, for me anyway, is a Stack road-legal dash like you got in Caterham's of a certain age.

[Timmos1974]

I bought one from China off Ebay......crap

Bought a second hand Pioneer unit for less money with a better screen and easier inputting.