[atif_farooq]

Can anyone please help me?

I bought the Alpine 9855R yesterday with the Alpine KCA-420 kit. When installing the head unit I've read some where in one of these forum posts that the stereo needs a permanent live (being an Alpine), and the one connected to the standard head unit is not good enough. Does this mean the head unit needs some special kind of installation? Or does it just fit in using the additional harness, aerial and fascia adaptor. I have MFSW on my car and want to keep this as well.

I'm going to order all the fascia adaptors and leads from Mike at NewMiniStuff tomorrow, and am considering doing the install myself, but dont want to ruin anything! If its going to be difficult then I will drive up (from Birmingham) and get Mike to fit instead.

Sorry if I haven't made any sense but I haven't carried out any car stereo installs before and am a complete beginner!

Thanks and any help will of course be greatly appreciated.

Atif

[Kurtster]

Hey I was just about to buy the Alpine CDA-9855 and when I talked to the Best Buy installer he told me the units had just been recealled because the motor freezes up on te faceplate.

I came home to verify this info and found this:

http://www.carsound.com/UBB/ultimate...c;f=2;t=004327

It appears that there has been a recall on this unit. I would call Alpine and make sure yours doesn't fall in the range they recalled, or if it does, get them to replace it before you've used it for long.

As for the power issue, I'm eagerly awaiting the answer, as i still want one of these once the motor thingy is fixed.

[Axtell]

When I had mine installed, all that we needed to install it was an antenna adaptor, and a wire harness. The wire harness connects to the alpine deck, then plugs into where the factory plug is. You don't need any special power wire to install this.

[mikeythemini]

Some high power Alpines have the yellow seperate from the main loom as it is quite heavy and takes more current than normal stereos & therefore say to connect it straight to the battery. I am not an alpine dealer but I have seen many people connect it to the harness adaptor without problem as the permanent live on the Mini is quite heavy - not like on some Jap cars

[dmeyer]

I just installed a 9855 with the stock power lead and had not problems.

[SiBradbury]

I've been having a few problems since fitting my Alpine such as:

• Doors not unlocking when ign. turned off
• Trip mileometer resetting back to zero (REALLY annoying!)
• Headunit reverting back to factory settings
• Any of the above are usually accompanied by a weird whirring noise from behind the speedo and/or the power steering going heavy before this happens

As a last resort I decided to go with Alpines installation instructions and wired the unit directly to the battery and (touch wood) none of these problems have reoccurred so far!