After much deliberation I decided to go with the Joying 8.8 single DIN unit with backup camera. Thanks to Rudy yet again for the installation. I haven’t had time to play much as we got done around 1:00am last night. We also did the capacitor thing with the speakers though to me they still sound like garbage so we’ll be doing a speaker swap in the spring.

The screen is crystal clear and very responsive. Backup camera works great. I wanted a unit that looked as close to stock as possible and with no double DIN housings available I believe this is the best bet.

It is hard to say but the call quality is clear, hey siri works great and the rest of CarPlay is of course functional. I bought an external volume **** but we didn’t install it yet. The volume is on touch screen only and requires two touches to get to it. A swipe down and a tap on the sound icon.

I can give a longer term review but as of now I can recommend. The video is too big so I’ll attach it once I upload to Vimeo or YouTube.

 

Where did you get your steering wheel?

 

I had it custom made from a shop in Latvia.

 

i thought I recognized grigul work


this is what I had him make me.

 

Correct. same. I did Alcantara and logo on the airbag part. Looks great. My leather was a little off they said they'd fix but with paddles on just going to leave it

 

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Originally Posted by type dougie

After much deliberation I decided to go with the Joying 8.8 single DIN unit with backup camera. Thanks to Rudy yet again for the installation. I haven’t had time to play much as we got done around 1:00am last night. We also did the capacitor thing with the speakers though to me they still sound like garbage so we’ll be doing a speaker swap in the spring....

You'll love that 8.8, I have the same one I got off of AliExpress, 6GB Ram, 128GB Flash, UIS7862S Processor, just check that you're on the latest version, the one mine shipped with had an update available I pulled from the Joying site. I also bought a TPMS kit to plug into the USB port on the back & OBDLink to pair with Torque and used Tasker to autostart all those apps on startup.

Really an amazing headunit for the money. My only complaint is as with all Chinese Radios the RCAs aren't Grounded well, if you can ground them with some wire to the chassis it eliminates those issues or use the Optical out.

 

Which model is this Im going to look into it for myself

 

these are a few pics of the 3 Radios I tried, finally landing on the 8.8 if interested, shows the apps I mentioned as well - https://imgur.com/a/AP2pWmR

Can buy the 4gb/64gb on Amazon for $410 or 6gb ram/128gb for $350 on AliExpress


JOYING Android 10.0 Octa Core Car Radio 8.8 Inch Universal 4GB RAM+64GB ROM Single Din Touchscreen Car Stereo GPS Sat Nav Support Bluetooth/5G WiFi/USB/SD/FM Radio/Android Auto/Subwoofer/Fastboot https://a.co/d/97D8Whb

Check it out! $325.50 25%OFF | 8.8 inch IPS Screen Android 10.0 single din car radio player Octa Core 4GB Ram+64GB Rom built in 4G&DSP module GPS stereo audio https://a.aliexpress.com/_mrQrq3m

 

This is the exact one i bought. It was on clearance for $313 i think before Black Friday.

 

I've been liking mine so far, the 6GB Ram one is probably overkill for a car but for $30 extra seemed worth it.

Was going to install a backup camera this weekend hut it was delayed from Amazon. Maybe next weekend.

How is yours doing?

 

It is cold here so that car is sitting, I’m in WI. I’d like to hear how you did the TPMS sensor and OBD thing.

Also I was going to do a new amp and speakers have you done that? Any advice?

 

TPMS was a kit I bought off of AliExpress for $20 came with 4 new sensors but I'd assume if you already have 433mhz tpms you dont need to buy new ones if you know the ID. It has a dongle that plugs into the back of the radio to act as a receiver/antenna for the sensors and shows temp and pressure to the tenth.

OBD2 is just a Bluetooth dongle and torque pro, I had ObdLink MX+ from a previous car and just leave it connected. The Tasker app auto-starts those apps when you turn the car on since when going into fast standby it closes all apps.

New amp and speakers were easy, just plugged into Analog RCAs, but had some alternator noise. Grounding the RCAs helped. The amp I bought was small enough to fit in the existing amp location in the passenger floorboard. The only thing you'll need to do is enable external amp under sound settings on the radio.

Will update more in depth and with links when I'm back home

 

Finally remembered to update the Links:

TPMS - https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805575012064.html

OBDlink MX+ OBD2 Bluetooth Dongle for Torque - https://a.co/d/hxbLc78 (This is an expensive one that updates a bit faster than regular ones, but you can buy a $10 ELM327 Dongle and it'll work fine too)

Torque/Torque Pro - https://wiki.torque-bhp.com/view/Main_Page (Pro is like $5 in the app store, I think I bought it in 2012 and it's come in handy a ton of times)

TASKER - https://tasker.joaoapps.com/ (I use this to kickstart the apps I want running in the background, IFTTT might work but I read that on radio's it may not work since it put all apps to sleep. IFTTT is a lot easier to use)

RCA Grounding Mod - Yes this looks Ghetto as hell, Yes it works, Yes most every android Radio I've had has had alternator/engine noise if using an external amp. The RCAs are all poorly grounded. This 8.8 unit has a SPDIF/Digital out so If you have a high end amp or DAC just use that to avoid this. I just connected them to the Ground wire for the radio and it fixed the noise.


RCA Ground mod on a pioneer unit.

 

Thanks I was just going to ask you for links!

 

@Isaacmaple08 What amp and speakers did you go with?

 

How can you use XM Radio on this unit ?
Thanks, Ken

 

I used these Speakers for the front and back and this sub. But I didn't buy off crutchfield, a mixture of Ebay and Amazon for about half price.

https://www.crutchfield.com/p_108P60....html?tp=64031
https://www.crutchfield.com/p_108P50....html?tp=64033
https://www.crutchfield.com/S-i2RlZS...o-RD400-4.html

And then for the Sub I used a powered Audison I found open box on ebay for $400 -

Very pleased with the sound but would like to add more sound deadening especially on the doors, floor and tmore to the trunk.

 

out of the box no, but if there is an XM Radio App for Android I would assume absolutely you can, if not then you would need probably a USB XM radio type thing is the only way I can see that working. If you know of an XM Radio app I can download and test it.

 

Thanks. I have the roadster so probably won't get the sub. Good to know the Primus sound good I was checking those out or the kappas.

 

Hi, Bought this unit and can't find the wiring harness , Which one or where did you all get yours?
Thanks, Ken