Pioneer AVH-Z5050BT

A very very good unit is the pioneer AVH-Z5050BT – Had the unit installed two weeks now and its very hard to fault. The menus and settings are very easy to navigate and change. The audio settings and quality is outstanding, many ways to alter the sound from this unit. The screen and buttons can be changed to a variety of colours and themes. The Bluetooth hooks up immediately and so does the reverse camera image. Android auto is fantastic and great for anyone with an android mobile. Apple carplay is also on the unit.

The touch screen while not as intuitive as a phone is quite adequate.

There's a bling feature called Mixtax that makes the unit behave like a disco which is good for drunken parked singalongs at night in your car. This feature only works on USB playback however.

Also awesome is the screen dimmer, on a sunny day the screen is easily seen if you increase brightness, alternatively at night you can dim the screen through the headlights or manually or by a set time. You can also turn the screen off completely. While running android auto with the night dimmer on it also runs in night mode with the maps a dark colour, not bright white which is distracting.

I love android auto, you can press a mic button or do the "o.k Google" and it works superb", play me this, play me that, take me here, take me there" Love Google assistant. It will play songs from your Google play music library on your phone while android auto is running without a full subscription to play music.

My only gripe is the radio icon that appears when in radio mode. It's so outdated and looks like it came from the 1920's. You can get rid of it by extending your saved radio station menu. If it wasn't for this 5 stars, as it stays blue and doesn't change with different theme colours.

Don't bother wiring up the green park brake wire, just ground/earth it and the unit will function properly.

Highly recommend this unit and great prices can be found on EBAY.

anyone who has a unit there are 3 firmware updates available from pioneer australias support page,if bought early on may pay to check,the last one fixes the back to front Bluetooth phone book name lists.