Need FM Radio

[enigma9o7]

Genuinely curious....."handbrake"?

Most head unit with a screen want this wire, and will only let you play videos when handbrake wire is grounded (handbrake/e-brake engaged), as a safety "feature". If you leave that wire unconnected/floating then it wont play video. Of course many self-installers will just hook it up to a hard ground and thus can play videos whenever....

edit: sorry, I see this was already answered

 

[Sturm]

I don't care about AM/FM...I can figure out how to stream them with my fone. But?

Screw streaming & Bluetooth.

I want to play my CD collection (accumulated over the past 25 years)...wired. ;-)

 

[GrizzlysGhost]

My mixed-tape collection is legendary, ask anyone! I would be negligent if I didn't even try to fit a cassette deck in there somehow. So I get where you're coming from!

 

[gnarly180]

If Slate doesn't come out with a single/double DIN stereo adapter for the center panel I will be making one myself so that I can install a system with an AUX port, TF card slot, USB input and maybe a CD player (just for fun). I'm not sure if I want a unit with a display, I kind of want to keep it minimal.

 

[Auer]

https://radioparadise.com/

 

[Sturm]

If Slate doesn't come out with a single/double DIN stereo adapter for the center panel I will be making one myself so that I can install a system with an AUX port, TF card slot, USB input and maybe a CD player (just for fun). I'm not sure if I want a unit with a display, I kind of want to keep it minimal.

I wouldn't want a "display"...isn't that what the cell fone is for? ;-)

 

[gnarly180]

I wouldn't want a "display"...isn't that what the cell fone is for? ;-)

If I did a display it would be so I could add a passenger side mirror camera and have the feed appear when I push a button. My Honda Fit has something similar and I have gotten used to it. I'm just not sure if it is worth having an ugly screen.

 

[motorolas]

I’d stuff an Eton radio or similar in the glove compartment and call it a day.

 

[EV Trek]

Gotcha. Although I’m 68, but perhaps more comfortable with tech. My understanding is a phone will be helpful for pretty much everything on this truck. It’ll show important things like charge status and remaining range. Without one, it’s sort of like a gasser missing a fuel gauge. (I also suspect that us old people are not a primary target market.)

Looks like that info may be in the center cluster display

 

[Daemoch]

Back in the day I took a band saw and cut the face off the OEM knob'd cassette stereo in my 86 Ranger and removed all the working parts behind it so it was just a big hole. I installed an amp in its place and used an RCA to headphone jack cable to drop the hookup out through the cassette door like i had a crappy cassette adapter in it. I plugged my Walkman or cd player or phone or anything else into it and played whatever i wanted through the system. When it wasnt being used it looked like i had a bone stock stereo, not the $1k system I'd replaced everything with. I never locked the doors.