Yep, I was hoping to do a proper review but am holding off until such time we can actually get this thing working properly in the UK Accord.
To cut a long story short, bought and installed it last week. The unit was genuinely fantastic (once calibrated with the steering controls and individual settings properly etc).
Initial issues were the fit at the bottom as you can see from the picture it is a slightly rounded straight edge wheras our UK cars have a V shape at the bottom on the standard unit... so really I would have had to cut up my factory trim to get this to fit.. and I almost did it..
Until on Sunday (mega hot day) i decided to use the AC.. a few minutes later I started to hear some popping and could smell a funny smell. I had a feeling it was my AC pressure relief valve but wasn't sure why it would be discharging gas. It was charged back in Oct by Holdcroft Honda and has been fine (although not used much).
Took it in to Hepworth Huddersfield Honda on Monday.. They discharged the old gas (only 200g came out) and then charged the new gas but after 5 minutes of running the engine to circle the gas, it started to discharge again. The tech (Steve - fantastic guy) then started to do some diagnosis and quickly noticed that the cooling fans weren't kicking in to cool the engine and AC Compressor. So he spent an hour changing known working relays, unplugging stuff etc and just couldn't get the fans to kick in.
He called me out to the car to explain and said he wasn't 100% sure but felt this unit was causing the problems as although it was starting the compressor, because it wasn't starting the cooling fans, it was causing the compressor to overheat and then discharge the gas (safety mechanism to prevent compressor damage).
He said to try the old unit back in the car and if the fans came on when you switched the AC On, then you know its this unit causing the problems. He topped the gas back up to full and I went on my way..
That evening I put the original unit back in and what do you know...everything was back to normal.
So whilst glad to have the car back to normal, I'm really disappointed that this unit didn't work as it was absolutely brilliant. I even bought a DVB tuner and rear view camera (Accord specific) which at the moment are going to waste...
Anyways, Robert (Ice Box) has been a brilliant guy to deal with. Both Robert and Bobby are a brilliant team and I have no hesitation in recommending them for all your ICE needs. Robert is checking with the supplier, and they are suggesting its a compatibility issue with the Diesel cars, hence the reason I asked if someone with a petrol could lend them their car for an hour.
I'm hoping the compatibility issue can be resolved coz I REALLY want one of these back in my car. I spent a few days faffing around getting it working just right, got the latest IGO PRIMO loaded and it was just utopia to be honest. The perfect solution and that 8" screen looked just brilliant in the centre console.
Merging this topic with the other to prevent double threads.
