New Kenwood Head Unit

This upgrade has been done for a while, actually one of the first things that got changed, but totally forgot to get some after shots of it.

The head unit is the Kenwood KDC W5041UA, its a really good little player, feature rich, and provided a nice sound upgrade from the standard one.

I picked this one, as I wanted a decent player but nothing over the top in price - this one was around £70 - also it's colour coded to the dash lights, and fits in quite nicely, even my usb pen glows orange/red. Within the automotive industry colour harmony is quite a big thing which a lot of time and effort is spent, so to ruin it with a neon blue and green lighting would have been a little careless. In the pictures below it looks like the font is blue, it's actually a bright white colour, and works really well against the orange.

Fitting the unit was very simple, as the car's design is very simple too. The headunit isn't integrated into the dash fascias like some cars, and is only single din as well, no faffing with double din adaptors. The only thing I needed was a BMW wiring harness adaptor, as this car was built under ownership of BMW and features their wiring loom technology.

All in all I'm very happy with the unit and would fully recommend Kenwood products to friends, the sound quality is far better than the standard unit too, as mentioned above.

Before (left) and After (right)

And a couple of night time shots with the Kenwood in place