Cheap ICE

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by PIE, Apr 10, 2019.

  1. PIE

    PIE

    My old radio was old tec, big and modern looking. Checked on ebay and saw a bluetooth radio hands free telephone thing that had a 70s look as opposed to 50s-60s retro sound thing and it was £13, how bad could it be. It turned up, cheapo box was split open, no instructions, the radio weighed about an ounce, it was about 2" deep but did look old. Fitted it, it sounds great and works a treat, plays all the music on me phone and spotify, how surprised an I.


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    Last edited: Apr 10, 2019
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  3. PIE

    PIE

    I have just found a remote with it so I can work it from the bed, no battery in it though!!!!!
     
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  4. Will it receive the Home Service?
     
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  5. No cassette slot
     
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  6. bernjb56

    bernjb56 Supporter

    To be fair, you aren’t usually in a fit state to operate a remote by the time you get to bed ;)
     
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  7. PIE

    PIE

    The day that Im that lazy that I cant tell the Mrs or kids to turn it off its time to give up!
     
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  8. I bought the same one off eBay wired it in all lit up but could get any sound to come out the speakers. Ending up throwing it away and bought Sony head unit.
     
  9. PIE

    PIE

    Thats what I expected, I must be lucky, I wanted one that looked 70s ish with bluetooth and handsfree, I would have bought a good branded one but they all look mega modern
     
  10. Keeling54

    Keeling54 Supporter

    Post the link, we all need a £13 ICE system
     
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  11. Soggz

    Soggz Supporter

    Keep the extinguisher handy...
     
  12. Doesn't do DAB does it? Absolute bargain even if it doesn't. Got a link for it?
     
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  13. PIE

    PIE

    I think it does, it says digital FM ?, if you search ebay , retro car bluetooth usb , dozens of sellers turn up, its on Amazon as well, I just went for the best seller feedback,
     
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  15. PIE

    PIE

    I think mine was £13.99, I bought it a few months ago but only just got around to fitting it, mine was UK stock.n You get the remote battery with that one in your link mind!
     
  16. mikedjames

    mikedjames Supporter

    Its not DAB radio fortunately. It is just Band 2 FM.
    The digital is just a word. Like 'rejuvenating' face cream.

    If you wind it up and pump out the bass it will probably do an impersonation of a Norwegian Blue Parrot shortly after.
     
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  17. PIE

    PIE

    I have had it as loud as I can take it and it sounded OK to me,,,,, for £13.99
     
  18. PIE

    PIE

    I will take a note of the date and see how long the thing lasts
     
  19. redoxide

    redoxide Guest

    got what looked like a new Kenwood all singing all dancing thing from the local crushers, pulled it from a dealer trade in.. cost a whole crisp £5.. just got around to fitting it with some big old Kenwood 3 way speakers .. just about burst a blood vessel ripping out bits of the cupboards and such to hide the speaker wires,, when I got to wiring them to the speakers I appears that I had pre routed some speaker wires when I wired the van.. could have saved a few hours there.. and much frustration..

    The online wiring diagram said that one feed wire is permanently live while the other is switched .. In the donor car it worked fine, but in the van the head unit won't start up unless both wires were attached together at either the switched source or permanent live ... If the switched source was adopted it meant I would need the ignition on.. so elected for the permanent live .. so now it wont switch off at the button so I just detach the head ,, bit of a pain but its cool for £5.. and sounds pretty decent ..
     
  20. PIE

    PIE

    Yea `I do that both the red and yellow wire together to my aux battery, I think the red one is more of a switch with the yellow providing the power, if Im wrong there are people who know more about electrickery than I who will put us both right
     

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