Pioneer’s revolutionary AppRadio™ is the first car stereo to revolutionize the driver’s experience by bringing compatible phone apps to the dash for the ultimate in-vehicle smartphone experience. With AppRadio you can access your Phone’s Calendar, Maps, Photos and other compatible apps directly on the Pioneer touchscreen right in your dashboard. I understand that smartphones are a common source of entertainment, information and...

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Last month, I discussed Remote Starters and the benefits of having a Starter in your vehicle.  What most Customers do not know when shopping around or in Ads they may see is that a Bypass Module is needed in most vehicles at an additional price to the advertised Remote Starter price. Sometime around 1996, some cars began coming with anti-theft systems which prevented the car from starting unless the right key was in the ignition. In the...

Everyone has experienced cold nights and hot days. Cars act as giant insulators, attracting temperature then sealing it in for the owners to feel. The summer brings the sun beating into your car all day and its Hot! You sit down, get ready to go, and you cannot bear the heat another second. Then we have to tolerate the season of winter which isn’t just hard on cars but can be hard on drivers too. Most everyone has experienced getting into...

A line out converter, or L.O.C., is a device that turns the speaker-level audio signal in a car audio system into a line-level signal that one can connect to an amplifier. This is necessary when one is adding an amplifier to a factory head unit, since factory head units do not have RCA outputs to get signals from. Typically, L.O.C.s come in two and four channel versions for a variety of installation options, and may be easily removed to...

In-car video entertainment….. for those of us who spent our childhood on road trips, crammed in the back of a station wagon with nothing to do but punch our brothers or sisters, it seems like a godsend. For the parents who were trapped in the same car with three kids who decided to pass the time by punching, pinching and asking, “Are we there yet?” it seems like nirvana. But for today’s kids, it’s becoming par for...