Buying head unit from USA Options

[richgt4]

Hi folks,
I'm off on my vacation to Florida in March & seeing as though the $ is at a very favourable rate to the £, I'm thinking of getting some car audio bits.

But I've just thought that a head unit bought it the states may not work back here in the UK due to radio frequencies? Could anyone confirm this for me if the radio frequencies are different in the states to over here in the UK?????

Cheers,

Rich

[GriffGirl]

Go to crutchfield.com and email them the question as though you were interested in purchasing it from their web site or something. I have never even thought of that with the radio frequencies, although my first guess would be that it would be fine, radio waves are radio waves and since the tuner can pick up so many frequencies, not just two or three like a cell phone, you'd be fine. The question remains however, what frequency do your stations begin at? Like our radios start at I think 87.1 or something, and end at I think it's 107.9 (for FM, of course). Are they the same in Europe?

I just looked at their web site, and while it doesn't say anything about compatibility, I did notice that their policy is that you must have the shipping made to a permanent address in the US. So if you contact them, remember to say you're having it shipped to a US address but will be taking it home with you when you visit or something.

This post has been edited by GriffGirl: Feb 16, 2008 - 12:48 AM