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I bought the kit from Pacific Stereo. Super fast shipping and was $249 with free ground shipping. Being it's coming out of Cali and I live in Seattle it was only 3 days. The deck I bought from a seller on eBay but also using Microsoft's bing.com/cashback which gives you 8% back. So it ended up to be about $1050 for the desk. Not bad at all.
I just wish the deck was faster when moving through the menus. Sometimes it takes 5-10 secs to move through things, even skipping to the next track on the iPod. Most of the time it's about 5 seconds, kind of annoying. And having hundreds of albums makes it tougher too. I think Alpine has a much faster interface but it's just not as pretty as Kenwood and Kenwood seems to give you the most flexibility for changing things, such as the boot up screen. Plus I love the Garmin UI for nav and being able to put in custom POIs, such as red light cameras and having it alert.
The directions does mention on the Mera kit to cut part of the dash inside that supports the stock deck. You don't need to. It just frees up more room for wires but I was able to get them all in there without it.
Overall I am pretty happy, I just wish the UI was faster.
And Pacific Stereo will also be sending me a new kit because of the button issue. They are out of stock for a few days but I'm okay with waiting. I don't want to take it apart again until I do the HD tuner next month. Wife won't let me spend anymore on the car right now. :(
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