thanks man, the JL's hit super hard! its crazy... i had regular v1's before the v2's and my amp poped them.

where did you get the encloser for the subs?

fellow member " mlg9770 " makes custom boxes. The box fits perfectly, and i have trunk space still. I can also access my spare tire easily.
here is his post:

https://g35driver.com/forums/audio-video-electronics/53301-2-10-sub-box.html

nice

lol. I knew I was going to get a repsonse from the other kung fu disciples......add yourself into the mix anywhere you want. I wasn't sure where you and the others fell in....lol

doc

I would have never guessed that. I thought the Nav system constantly queried the Nav satelites to determine where the car is and the speed of the car.

My G35 is not a Premium Package car. Will I still have this wire?

Why does the Nav system need the speed of the car? Does it interpolate between satelite downloads to determine intermediate locations?

I am very new to Nav systems... as you can tell. Thanks for the info...

Thank you very much!

I really appreciate you posting these pictures! It is way better than I actually hoped.

Your install is tremendous... quite a nice setup. I'll bet it sounds wonderful.

Thanks GRider, but we were able to work it out. When I first got the car back I kept getting the message: Check Speed Pulse and I would not get voice guidance from the Nav. So I took it back to the shop, they contacted Eclipse and I guess they were getting a weak signal from the wire so they had to amp it. Now it all works as it should.

Looks much better than i could have imagined..i too am looking at this style headunit, why did you chose this one over the AVN5495?

jb, the display will show the information if its available from the disk. When I burn a CD, I use the CD Text feature and the album and track title will appear on the screen. If you want the artist to appear as well, I think you might have to include the name on the track title. Some software programs do not have the CD Text feature so if you use that software for burning, no information will be displayed on the screen.

As to commercial CD's, some of them come with CD Text information but it really is hit and miss. Most CD's don't even tell you if they have it or not on the cover. I would think that only very recent CD's have it.

Kind of the same applies to RDS (Radio Data System) which is artist, track and album information sent out by the radio stations and displayed on certain H/U's. I don't believe that the AVN5435 displays this information and there are only very few stations around that send it out anyways.

Hope this helped,
Mario

Well, money would be one. But for me the 5435 offered all the features that I wanted for the price I was willing to pay. Yes, the 5495 has more features but I didn't necessarily need them.

For example, the Hard disk to store up to 3000 songs. For one, the tracks get dowloaded to the HD in real time and two, I already have an mp3 player that I connected to the 5435 through an audio input and it has more than 3000 tracks. For those of us who don't have the CD's downloading tracks to the hard disk would be a problem.

The 5495 offers HD-based Navigation which I guess is nice because it's faster than reading it off a DVD like the 5435 but in our other car we have the Acura Navi (which IMO is the best available) and that one runs off a DVD. I am completely satisfied with the speed of the Navi on the 5435. Another thing to consider is Navi updates, and I am not sure how Eclipse will handle those on the 5495. I think that on the 5435 you will need to buy a new disk ($300-400 ouch).

The 5495 also has surround sound processing for DVD's but it was something I felt I could live without since I don't consider the car my main video watching environment.

And as of the time I bought it, the 5495 did not offer Sirius support, but I heard that was coming later in the year.

Hope this helped,
Mario

it did, thanks alot.

Hey is that box custom

so you guys are from the bay area to? im actually moving there next week from vegas to do car audio.

i have the 5435 also, but how do you do an MP3? I have downloaded from AOLmusic.com and I want to burn these tracks but how do you do it? I downloaded software for an MP3 player ( Sonique) . Any info would be great!