Well I have a Sony GT630UI installed in my car, I bought an Alpine 113BT last year because I thought it would be useful to have the Bluetooth feature plus it was going cheap, like £15 cheap.

Horrible unit, oh yeah it was nice to look at, felt like a quality product and the sound was good but I use my HU for playing music stored on my USB stick and whilst the Sony had no issues with the music structure Artist -> Album -> Song all copied across at once to ensure they had the same date stamp. The Alpine just couldn't deal with it, the music appeared cluttered and in a rather hap hazard order, the HU stops playing the song you are on if you go looking for a new track to play, navigating the songs them selves was no where near as smooth and straight forward as it was on the Sony, in the end I concluded that I use my HU more for playing music than I do for Bluetooth calling so the Sony 630UI went back in and the Alpine got sold on.

I would have recommended an Alpine having had one in my Polo, back in the days when it was just a CD player and non of this fancy Aux In, USB interface stuff, but now wouldn't touch one would choose a Sony in a heart beat over one.

Ok, gonna get the stereo fitted in the next few days, will I need any brackets for it or anything or will it fit in where the Skoda one was?

Standard speakers do a surprisingly decent job, IIRC to change the fronts involves drilling out a couple of pop rivets as they're not screwed in, but unless you're 18 and like the bass to rattle the doors don't bother.

If you do it right you won't have any rattling For the bass you need a subwoofer, and you'd have a High Pass Filter set so the front speakers do not reproduce sounds below a certain frequency. I think anyone would appreciate a bit of bass. It's like the difference between a £5 tinny sounding radio and a £100 hifi system. The idea is to more fully reproduce the frequency range that is in the original recording, not to go for the thump thump thump thump drum and bass like you hear kids driving down the road playing. Also see http://www.talkaudio.co.uk/ipb/index.php/topic/348786-hi-im-new-and-id-like-to-put-a-stereo-in-my-car/

Matty

I've had the previous version (103) fitted to to my VRS SE for about 2 years now - good unit with decent sound quality and good Ipod operation, the BT handsfree works well too.

You won't be disappointed.

HTH

Well I got it fitted today. Very impressed so far. Sound quality is far superior to the standard head unit. It works great with the iPhone using the direct controls and you can even change the colour of the lighting to green so it matches the rest of the dash. I still need to learn how the Bluetooth works on it but it's going well so far.