Today morning I got a surprise delivery, my stereo which had shipped from the US 3 days ago with U Shop We Ship had already arrived to Kuwait and cleared customs. It was my first time ordering from Crutchfield and I have to say they really are the best for purchasing car audio equipment from. With my Alpine iDA-X001 head unit they also provided me with everything I needed to install it into my Wrangler by myself including a face plate, wiring harness, antenna adapter and a step by step installation guide with pictures of my Jeep.
I took both the Alpine wiring harness and the one that Crutchfield sent to connect it to my Jeep to a store in Hawalli to have them solder it together. Its a pretty easy job of just connecting wires of the same color together but I didn’t have a soldering iron so I let them do it for me. After having them solder the wiring harnesses together I went back home and took apart my Jeep’s dashboard and installed the head unit myself. It took me less than 30 minutes to have it up and running. This is what I love about the Wrangler, its such a simple car, I seriously think I could take it all apart using just a philips screwdriver.
The Alpine unit doesn’t play CD’s or tapes, it just connects to the iPod and from what I have seen so far it does an amazing job of it. I will post a full review after I try it out for a while but so far it looks like its going to be a positive one.
If anyone is planning on buying something from Crutchfield use the coupon code: p9w3q-2y6hc-2dssw
It will give you a $20 discount and I get a $20 credit.
Note to Wrangler owners: If you want the factory sub to work then you need to connect the Blue/White cable (Remote Turn-On) to the Blue cable instead of Blue to Blue. The Blue cable is for Power Antenna and so powers the sub only when you are tuned into the radio. The Blue/White cable sends power constantly so the factory sub will be powered when tuned into the radio AND when connected to the iPod or listening to a CD or whatever. This applies when installing any head unit not just the Alpine.
20 replies on “My new car stereo”
It plays cd’s if u connect it to a cd changer, i read about it, cuz im planning on buying the same unit 🙂
yeah I know but the whole purpose of this unit is that all my cds are on my ipod anyway so don’t need a cd 🙂
congrats now u need to change the speakers
When you do something like this you need to change the wiring and the speakers to make sure everything is crystal clear! Enjoy the new setup!
Why is my stuff still in customs!
I will be running new wires once I get the JL speakers and amp next month. I will be upgrading the front dashboard speakers to 5-1/4″ just like the rears so I have a more balanced sound. Currently my rear speakers are bigger so you can tell the music is coming from the rear louder than the front.
Only issue I have at the moment is trying to figure out what sub to get. I think I only have place for one amp which is under my seat and this amp will be powering the speakers. For the sub in the trunk I am thinking of the 200watt 10″ Powered Bazooka. It has a built in amp which saves space but I am not sure the whole thing will fit behind the back seat.
Customs !!! Their web site is not even working. somehow mark never gets cutomed – i think this has somehting to do with usws.
And thats why my Knight Rider radio controlled car is still sitting in customs waiting for me to go clear it…
ok i was always curious, so i guess this is the chance to ask. Remember back in the day when you ordered the first i-phone after the crack post and all. I went there to usws and there was a bunch of people that had iphones in the held shipment, i also saw that each person had to pay customs, however you posted the next day saying you didnt have to pay, again just curious.
Yeah I didn’t pay customs on the two iPhones I ordered. But I ordered one iPhone with USWS and the other with this other company thats launching the service soon. So maybe the post you read was when I had received my iPhone from the other shipping company.
so whats the name of this “other company” – now that uve utilized their services – r they better than usws?
I have two amps and a subwoofer in the diwaniya .. they are yours if they fit.
DLC, I can’t say who they are nor can i judge their service yet based on 1 shipping experience.
K: Got pics?
fair enough mark..
when r they going public – any idea??
Nope, they had a 1 month test period where they invited some people to try the service and when it was done they went silent. Don’t know whats happening now.
Mark, one thing I enjoy about your blog is that it swings from extreme geek to extreme sneakers to extreme shawarmas. This comes under the first category, obviously…:)
You want pictures too?
Just come over and see if it fits ..
why did god invent digital cameras? Fine I will pass by and check it myself the old fashioned way.
yo_ghurt thanks, and extreme shawermas doesn’t sound like such a bad name for my shawerma place, it has the right amount of cheesiness to make it work lol
harnesses make thing so much fck’n easy
good luck with ur new setup
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