Alpine Electronics Bluetooth Car Radio

Top quality Alpine sound at a bargain price with full Bluetooth audio and phone integration plus a great quality external mic with ample cable length to mount anywhere suitable. Full RGB custom colours for both display and keys allowing you to match any interior lighting. In addition added a all in one alpine subwoofer swe-815 to create a high quality system at a budget cost. Alpine has really wiped all the other competitors out, just based on sound quality alone.

I am about as far from a car person as you can get but I managed to install this easily in a 2009 Citroen Berlingo so if that’s the car you’re planning to install it to go for it! Can’t speak for other models though.

The install was literally unplugging from the stock radio and plugging into this one, I think I did need a Car Aerial Adaptor for Car Radio ISO to DIN and radio removal fork things. There’s a great video on youtube specifically for the Berlingo.

Aside from that it was pretty much plug and play, I had ordered a different radio originally but that required wiring and removing panels for the install which I’ve got no idea about.

The only thing I don’t like about the radio is that when the car turns off it’ll stay on for 30 seconds (with the auto-turn-off settings on) which means if you park in the dark and leave your car you’ve got a bright red light shining inside until it turns itself off – To get around this I just unclip it (super easy) and leave it in the glovebox usually.

Easy fitting like most single din units, can store 2 different phones/handsets in its memory so you dont have to resync bt if 2 different people use the ca

Bought to replace the stock radio in a 2012 Toyota Aygo. This thing is an immense improvement over the stock head unit for both sound quality and functionality. The menu system is really straight forward once you get used to it. The external mic included for phone calls clips onto the sun visor nicely and the sound on the other end of the call is crystal clear. The people I’ve called using it so far said they didn’t even realise I was in the car.

Complex setup such as high/low pass filters, detailed sound options, colour customisation and other display settings can be accessed via a comprehensive menu but the basics such as bass, mid, treble and sub levels are easily available at a push of a button making it easy to tweak levels quickly out of the corner your eye without stealing focus from the road.

The head unit offers enough customisation to balance my setup perfectly. I paired it with 2x Pioneer TS-G400s in the dash slots & 2x Pioneer TS-G670s in the front doors running off the head unit’s built in amp, plus a self amplified Alpine SWE-815 8 inch subwoofer in the boot. The result is absolutely phenomenal in my little Aygo, the head unit pushes enough power through the Pioneers to make your ears bleed (with the high pass filter enabled at 120hz ensuring they should never pop even at full blast of course!) and the sub output provides exactly what the SWE-815 needs.

So far bluetooth works flawlessly, pairing to my phone reasonably quickly as soon as I turn on the ignition. I use an Android phone and as this headunit is compatible with Android open accessory 2.0 the play/next/prev/etc buttons control the current media player on the phone (mp3 player, Spotify, etc). The head unit displays the current song title from most media players (including Spotify) and even shows the video title when playing music and podcasts from YouTube (Pssst! Use YouTube through Firefox mobile with an ad-blocker enabled and the “Video Background Play Fix” adon so you can minimise Firefox, have Waze or Google Maps on screen or even completely lock your phone while YouTube continues to play in the background when driving, you’ll thank me later!).

I’d highly recommend this head unit to anyone who wants a top quality bit of kit on a budget.

Replaced an old Land Rover Discovery head unit with this, primarily as been an Alpine radio it was a direct replacement without the need for adaptor leads. The sound is excellent and having BT makes it a great upgrade over the old cassette head. Hasn’t got a CD player but as music is played from my phone via BT, I want bothered.
Excellent value at 99 when I purchased it, it was 30 more when I first looked at them. I would recommend anyone in the market for an aftermarket replacement to seriously consider this.

What a sound they say it’s their entry model beats the socks off other more expensive ones I have used over the years. Very good quality and clear pulls in radio channels well and your phone is clear to hear and when speaking also connects easily.

This item is much better than the stock stereo that was in my car , fantastic Bluetooth connection ,had an issue getting the extra wiring to suit my car,but that was nothing to do with alpine,,,five star ,,,,but what I found strange ,,I had it for seven weeks in the book and with in two hours of set up I had Amazon review request,,, coincidence or more Amazon snooping on customers

Packaged well with comprehensive instructions and further specifications easily found online.
I chose this unit because the car I have just bought came with an Alpine unit and is also fitted with sub-woofers. After a brief search I found that the connections on the back of this new unit were identical to the old one, so it made sense to keep things simple.
The unit does come with an adaptor cable to connect other existing cabling from different radios, I am not sure how standard it all is, but looks simple enough. I simply used the tools provided to extract the old radio from its slot, unplugged the cables and attached to the new unit and then popped the new unit back. This took less than five minutes.
There is another cable as the 200BT comes with Bluetooth to phone capability and there is a wired microphone to route to a place where you can speak into it. I simply routed it through the side of the radio and mounted the Mic next to the radio on the dash.
Firing up, the unit works perfectly and is reasonably easy to use. You WILL need the instructions to pair your phone as it’s not obvious how to do this, but the pairing went straight in and now I can stream Spotify and use my phone handsfree. The mic works well, at the distance I have put it.
For the price, I have no complaints and would recommend the unit.

Always loved Alpine, and this head unit does not disappoint. Never had a “mech less” unit before, but since all my stuff is on USB these days, it just made sense. Love the way you can change text and button colours, so many options on this little beauty and of course the sound quality it spot on, I have this running JL C1’s but will add more in time (especially as it has 2 pre-outs) I’m over the moon with my purchase 😉

Teamed with Alpine Speakers this was easy to install in my MGF, and was easy to set-up from the menu. I have my mobile and an Alexa Dot (internet tethered through my mobile) both connected by bluetooth. Alexa plays through the car speakers, and an incoming call switches this unit’s sound over to the mobile. Alexa and my mobile both reconnect automatically once the car is started. Very happy with it; sounds great.