Every van I see on the side of the road is beat, that is a score. So neat to see the vision become real. Nice rig.
I have a Kenwood double din and I would trade it out for an Alpine in heartbeat. The double din fits but is a pain to remove the dash bezel when thoroughly cleaning.
The kenwood has all the settings that I use buried too deep and when accessing it is very slow and sluggish. like a computer ready to crash.
I know this is not a stereo review page, but I have a
Kenwood Excelon DNX9140 in my Toyota Sequoia SUV, and Toolman is right...the menu sucks. Things are not where they should be, it takes forever (and the instruction manual) to find anything, and making adjustments while driving is impossible. If I want to change the volume of the navigation voice on the GPS side, I have to come out of there and go into the audio side, then scroll through about six levels of the menu to find and make the adjustment. Then go back to the navigation side to see the map. If it's still not right (no indicator until it speaks), start all over.
On the other hand, installation was a snap, and it sounds great once you finally get it adjusted. I'm planning on pulling it out of the Toyota, putting the factory JBL back in there, and installing it in the back of my ambo/camper trailer build. The GPS won't be of much use, but the video player, CD/DVD, camera inputs, external monitor outputs, etc. will be very useful.
