HELP Carrozzia

[R33Dan]

Hey there

i was wonderin if anyone could help me, i have a s1 r33 and it came from japan and has a carrozzia gps system in it (no screen) i have no idea on it so it just sits there i was wondering if anyone else has got one or knows anything about them

[someonestolecc]

I don't think it will work simply because there won't be GPS maps for australia on them.

GPS systems in cars work by getting your position and overlaying a map on them. Now I don't think that there would be an Aussie map with Aussie streets on it for a Japanese domestic stock car GPS system.

If you do get one please let us know - GPS systems are cheap over tehre and I'd love to get one even if it spoke in Japanese etc but I've never been able to because noone has maps of Australia for them.

Also if it has no screen... well... hmm I don't like your chances.

Good luck tho!

[Jay95R33]

I've got a head unit and TV with GPS in the Stagea too.... Here is what I've found out about the GPS system (it's not much !).

I rang Pioneer and they said that they did consider making maps/disks for Australia, but the cost was going to be somehting like $40 million + !!!, so they backed out of it

Basically the GPS system won't work in Australia, nor will the TV if you have the TV/GPS version. Not only are the Jap TV's NTSC and we are PAL, but the audio and video are at different off-sets Soooo, this means that the screen can only be used as a monitor.

If your set up is the same as mine, the control unit will be under the passengers seat, on mine it has a spare set on video and audio inputs so you can plug in a seperate player or tuner to it (it'll have to be a NTSC device).

Mine also has the GPS 6 disk stacker in the back. It does read audio CD's, but only plays them out of the small (2 inch) speaker that the GPS uses On the control unit there is also a spare IPbus (or what ever they are called) socket that I'm going to see if it can be plugged into, hopefully it'll just thinks it a CD player and send the audio through the stereo.

In the next few weeks I'll be dragging my DVD player outside to see if it's going to work also.

One main problem is that you can't get any instruction manuals for them and if you do find some they are all in Japanese I don't even know how to change the clock settings on mine, let alone figure out how to turn on the AUX input...

[paulr33]

i had a carrozerria full deck out in my r33. head unit. sat nav. tv all in jap and was fairly crapping. its all ntcs. i am still using the screen. sold the deh990 head unit for $150 and chucked out the sat nav unit (uesless). ive got a $300 aus dvd player (1 DIN size) under my head unit connected to the tv and it does ntsc so works fine. dvd player audio out to my alpine head, 2 x 12" subs, 2 x 6.5 splits and 2 rear coax speakers = awesome and cheap setup

[Jay95R33]

Sounds good Paul,

So have you got 3 units all up ?? The Alpine headunit, the aus dvd player, and the Carrozerria TV screen (that I suppose your just using as a monitor) ?

Is that right? Or does the aus dvd player have it's own screen?

J

[paulr33]

Yeah thats how its setup

Alpine CDA9807 cd/mp3 head unit

with aux in connector

dvd player connects audio to aux in on head unit and video to monitor

The carrozerria tv-xp7 has just video in (two of them) and i just plug in normal rca and set the dvd player to ntsc mode and it works fine. good lcd video and top quality sound from the subs/splits setup. its great.

dvd player

zylex (some shit brand) single disc front load dvd player. 1 DIN size unit

Video and audio out. Video and Audio in (no idea on this one). remote. pal and ntsc

optical out and dolby pro logic out. $300

tv

carrozerria tv-xp7

$came with car

stereo

alpine cda9807 cd/mp3 head unit

front 6.5" alpine splits

rear 6" coax alpine speakers

2 x 12" type s subs in boot in box

1 x amp monoblock for subs

1 x 4 channel amp for splits and rear speakers

total $1800 installed

[paulr33]

http://members.dodo.com.au/paul/skylinesau...stralia/tv3.jpg

the dvd player hangs out a little cos its too long and hits the aircon box behind it or something else and im not using the angled rca leads so its only probably just too long but a sminch. its pushed in a little futher since that pic. but u can see the head unit. dvd player and screen

im gonna get hks camp on the tv too as it supports another video in (the screen)

[Jay95R33]

Very cool - I might be heading the same way with mine. The head unit is 'OK' but I might ditch it..

The other thing I'm thinking about doing is getting a small portable MPG1/2 & MP3 player ( http://www.snazio.com/Links/PC.html ) and hook that into the spare inputs. But the portable player I'm looking at is $400 !!

The other problem I have it the TV/monitor I have has only got one of those square IP-bus plugs on it.... And I have no idea which pin does what !! So I'm stuck to using the TV with the control box and crappy headunit..

So your dash has all 3 din units in the centre console? Did you relocate the climate control unit ?

J

[paulr33]

its great cos it all works with the handbrake off. so many people think it should never.

i kinda missed the wire dvd wiring loom to handbrake section in the manual

the dvd player doesnt have any mounting brackets which is shitty but what do u expect for $300

[paulr33]

some other stuff i found when i first got mine

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...ead.php?t=10513

[paulr33]

and another

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...ead.php?t=22152