Replacing stock radio

I see several post about entire units replaced. What's the majority here prefer?

 

a lot of us who have the none touch screen oem unit have upgraded to the oem touch screen unit

many others have replaced their oem units with aftermarket units

 

look here

https://www.crutchfield.com/m_266150/Car-Stereos.html

 

Do it! You can get a decent head unit reasonably inexpensive, depending on how many bells and whistles you want.
Crutchfield.com is a great source. Mounting kits,wiring adapters.... They'll set you up.

 

I 3rd or maybe 4th the recommendation to purchase through Crutchfield.


About 3-4 years ago, I put in an Alpine CDE-W235BT double din headunit and Alpine SPS-610C speakers in the front and rear doors. Crutchfield had the adapter to make my steering wheel controls work, and the radio surround to make it look pretty much factory.

I now have wireless calling and bluetooth. I mounted the microphone in the overhead console, which works great.

I did the double din, because it looks better than a single in the dash, but if I had it to do over, I probably would have gone single and put in a CB, or some switches below it. It's kind of a waste of space, since you can get the same functionality with a smaller radio.

 

I've got the Pioneer 8400 series which includes NAV

 

Or...
Put the cb down below and use the space for an Alpine ERE G180 passive eq with BBE and sub control slider...

The sony was good but theres a kenwood hu in there now.
Nice to have dual usb's and bluetooth.

And yes, crutchfield and local stereo shops rock!