[quote=""dirtymonkey29""]Im tempted by the dynavin. Also has a lot of obc equivalent features such as mpg, distance remaining, as well as things like oil and water temp, battery voltage etc, also parking sensor display.[/quote]
For
£705.70 It'd have to be perfect for me to buy a Dynavin! I had to really convince myself that spending £490 odd on the Hualingan was worth it...which i guess it was when you consider that before I just had a single slot CD player and that was it, and now have CD/DVD/iPod/TV/SD/Bluetooth Phone etc, but even then I had a bead of sweat running down my brow as I entered my card details
....but you can get a
lot of stuff for £700. That's a 50"
3D Plasma TV right there:
http://www.richersounds.com/package/tv/ ... tv/patwh65
On the Dynavin website they mention that you can get Facebook and Email on your car stereo...
That's not a selling point for me. I mean do you really need internet on your car stereo? Especially when you have it right there on your phone anyway, i really don't see the need. TV/DVD sure, i spend a lot of time in my car parked up at the services eating my lunch when i'm out and about, and my son can sit in the back and watch films on long journeys etc, but I can't see me ever using my car stereo to fire off an email.
And to top it off when you hear of people having problems, that's a big no from me. When I considered the Dynavin it' was mainly because I assumed it was bulletproof compared to the other similar ones....
And am I the only one who thinks the Dynavin looks a bit bland?.. The older one (with the 'forehead') just looked plain stupid, but the new one doesn't exactly blow me away in the looks department. I actually prefer the look of the Hualingan.
[quote=""dirtymonkey29""]I still want to know how to get hold of one to test Sanj style.[/quote]
I spoke to John at car-vision about this the other day, AFAIK it's a sort of agreement with the retailer that they will buy one or two units, you still pay a certain amount to 'test' it for a certain time, and you work together with the retailer to see if it's any good before they buy in a big batch of them. I think you might have missed the boat though, since John 'tested' the Hualingan with Sanj, John was happy enough with it (happy enough to offer a 1yr warranty anyway) and ordered a load of them in.
He also told me a story (see below) of a different guy who mentioned to John that he was thinking of buying a similar Chinese unit for a Jeep Cherokee, John was interested in potentially selling them too so instead of the guy just buying one, John said that
he would order it and 'test' it out in the customer's car, which they did. But it turned out to be a pile of crap and apparently John spent over 100 hours to-ing and -fro-ing to the customer's house to sort out various things that kept going wrong. He decided it wasn't worth the hassle of buying any more, and didn't, but the customer left him a really bad review talking about the shoddy goods. An unfair review if you ask me, especially when it was pre-agreed that the unit was a 'test' one only. Every single other review of car-vision is 5 star, and John said he did not charge the customer anything for the 100 hours of assistance.
Not worth it imo, just get a tried and tested one that you know works. Save yourself the hassle.
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, lowest was around £100, highest was around £280 for the oem head unit.
