Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 35)

[Bobberoo99]

StuntmanMike said:

Bobberoo99 said:

That Molecatcher car looks fab!!

I've got myself in a tizzy, I can't decide between two headunits for my car, I'm torn between the Pioneer FHS820DAB

And the Kenwood DPX-7200DAB

What do you chaps think?

When I was a bin lid I religiously had pioneer, never had a bad one.

Later I had a couple of kenwoods and again they were excellent.

Between those two I would go on price. Are they the same spec?

Meant to answer this sooner old chap. around £150 for the Pioneer, and around £165 for the Kenwood, the Kenwood has Alexa built in which i'll be honest and say i'll probably never use, but yes they're specced pretty much identically, on looks it's the Pioneer, on prior experience Kenwood, however looks are winning over at the moment, on top of the cost of the unit there's also going to be £70 worth of adapters to actually install it in the Rioja Blue Racing Focus!!!

[Scrump]

Three knobs are better than one!

[StuntmanMike]

Can you change the colours on them to match the rest of the dash. That would be an irritation to me, which looks more like the OEM one.

[StuntmanMike]

Gonna go out now and knock the rest of those nuts off.

[Dibble]

We are back. The Idiot, looking regal. Ish.

[Bobberoo99]

Scrump said:

Three knobs are better than one!

Quite!!!

StuntmanMike said:

Can you change the colours on them to match the rest of the dash. That would be an irritation to me, which looks more like the OEM one.

The Kenwood looks more OEM, but I prefer the look of the Pioneer, but yes you can customise the keys/surround/display to match the dash colour!!

[Scrump]

Back home after my cooked breakfast at the local cafe.
Whilst I was enjoying all the meat products I saw a chap taking photos of my car. He took a couple of the PH smiley sticker so I am now waiting for my car to appear in the bad parking thread

[White Stiletto]

Morning all.

An excellent start to a new volume, although Stuntman's run of bad luck continues. As TB said, things can only get better, mind you they didn't.

In any event a busy day ahead none of it includes anything car related unfortunately.

I test drove the new mugs and they are working well. Need some new teaspoons though....

Must get on.

[Bobberoo99]

White Stiletto said:

Morning all.

An excellent start to a new volume, although Stuntman's run of bad luck continues. As TB said, things can only get better, mind you they didn't.

In any event a busy day ahead none of it includes anything car related unfortunately.

I test drove the new mugs and they are working well. Need some new teaspoons though....

Must get on.

There's a whole thread on New Teaspoons, makes us look positively normal!!!

After extensive internet based research i ave decided on the Pioneer for The Fucus, I'll wait until we're off the last week of September to order it, i'll have time to fit it then!!!

Anybody seen Bomma yet?

[Pericoloso]

glenrobbo said:

I know of a TVR that had a lovely fresh 12 month's MoT.
It also had chassis outriggers that had been reconstructed using fibreglass.
Just sayin'

Questions will be asked before I go to view , I am not buying if the previous MOT advisory ,which has now not appeared last week

hasn't been attended to sufficiently .

Minty might have unwanted holes .

[DickyC]

White Stiletto said:

Morning all.

An excellent start to a new volume, although Stuntman's run of bad luck continues. As TB said, things can only get better, mind you they didn't.

In any event a busy day ahead none of it includes anything car related unfortunately.

I test drove the new mugs and they are working well. Need some new teaspoons though....

Must get on.

Well volunteered! Your plans for the TT 11th Anniversary Souvenir Teaspoons have eleven months to reach maturity.

Forward planning is the key.

[Scrump]

Minty

[Bobberoo99]

Just watched the latest VGG episode, "Well i just, pull it a bit, nope push it back, ppfffttttt help me understand!!!"

[Pericoloso]

I don't know what a 600 Jolly would sell for but it's going to have far too many 00000000s in the price .

Probably 100x more than I might be paying.

[Scrump]

600 jolly? I thought it was a 500 with a few extra holes!

[ApOrbital]

I might put in my old alpine in the chavet this week.

[White Stiletto]

DickyC said:

Well volunteered! Your plans for the TT 11th Anniversary Souvenir Teaspoons have eleven months to reach maturity.

Forward planning is the key.

It's over £20 for a bespoke teaspoon - I don't think there will be much demand.

[DickyC]

White Stiletto said:

DickyC said:

Well volunteered! Your plans for the TT 11th Anniversary Souvenir Teaspoons have eleven months to reach maturity.

Forward planning is the key.

It's over £20 for a bespoke teaspoon - I don't think there will be much demand.

Volume is the secret. Buy 500 and the price per unit falls considerably.

[P5BNij]

Bobberoo99 said:

That Molecatcher car looks fab!!

I've got myself in a tizzy, I can't decide between two headunits for my car, I'm torn between the Pioneer FHS820DAB

And the Kenwood DPX-7200DAB

What do you chaps think?

Ooh ooh, a bit of trivia for the trivia thread.... the house John Lennon lived in from '64 to '68 was named Kenwood, in '67 he buried a stash of LSD in the 'very large) back garden when he heard he might get raided by the drug squad....

https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/kenwood-the...

[Bobberoo99]

ApOrbital said:

I might put in my old alpine in the chavet this week.

Single or double din? You're going to need a harness adapter with stalk control patch, and a fascia adapter if it has the rounded Sony headunit, the original fascia is pulled off but be gentle as you can break the tabs and the unit is screwed into the dash behind it!!!