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Will an American stereo work in a UK car?

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big al:
Hi all,
I am looking at buying one of the Pioneer AVH-P3100 units, noticed there is a quite substantial price difference between UK stockists and US ones, I appreciate I will pay customs charges...maybe, but was wondering if there are any other problems with getting one from America, advice appreciated, as I want to get this soon if I can.

Hurdy:
I can't see any reason why it wouldn't be exactly the same as a UK model. It isn't as if the US cars run on a different power supply or anything!

If there was a derivative for the US market it would have a different suffix to mark it out.

 :smiley:

Alexander:
I think the RDS system is slightly different so you may not get station names come up, but I may be wrong.

nick-barnes07:
the stations will be different, where our sterio's search in 2's. i think theres search in 3's, so some stations you wont be able to get, stereo will work fine though, instead of radio 1 being 98.6 it would be 98.7 for instance and so on

TomB:
Yeah thats right, their FM frequencies are a bit different to ours. 

If it takes DAB input, buy a DAB adaptor and problem solved.

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