Anyone know any way to hide your avic-z1 like maybe a cover so when you park your car people can't see it........any ideas??

thanks

I have been thinking about the same thing for about a week.

I should have my avic z1 installed by the end of the week and I plan on getting some black felt or velvet or some soft material/fabric and cut it to exact size of the unit (maybe a bit bigger) than use velcro to attach it when the car is parked.

any other ideas would be great.

Well my Avic D1 was ripped out of my dash, while parked in my driveway, only 2 weeks ago.
I've now put in my original stereo prior to having motion sensors added to my security system.
The Z1 will be going in next and I've taken a picture of that original stereo that I will print out and trim to exactly the size of the screen. I'll even add a couple of nobs to the surface to give it that 3D look. Mounted on a piece of thin cardboard it'll just sit in the screen recess.
Seeing that most of the scum operates at night my hope is that it'll look convincing enough to prevent someone from having a closer look. :x :x

I should add that I did NOT have a GPS antenna on the roof and recommend highly that others put their antenna under the dash also. It works just as good. :?

I was thinking about this last night as well, and came up with an idea, that I think works pretty well and I will post some pics tonight. I used the little plastic trim piece that came with my Z1, cut a piece of black t-shirt, and hot glued it to the trim piece, I than attached little plastic pieces that stick out and slide in between the Z1 and the metra install kit which holds it into place, I plan on putting a Ford symbol on the front of the t-shirt to make it look more "factory". It looks pretty good, now hopefully any would-be thiefs will move onto another more obvious radio.

Any body got any ideas on mods to hide it in a VW Jetta. I was thinking of going from the cupholders?

Get your windows tinted.

howarmat said:

Get your windows tinted.

a possibility... too bad it is against the law in many states.

Almost all states allow a %. You can have the shop go darker usually too. I don't know of anyone who actually got a ticket for it either.

Here is the state by state breakdown:

http://www.tintdude.com/laws.html

MI seems like you can do just about any %.

howarmat said:

Almost all states allow a %. You can have the shop go darker usually too. I don't know of anyone who actually got a ticket for it either.

Here is the state by state breakdown:

http://www.tintdude.com/laws.html

MI seems like you can do just about any %.

In NJ ANY tint on the front windows of a car can get you a $70 ticket. I have had a lot of friends get tickets for tinted windows.

I've got 20% all around and never had a ticket.

But, right now, since it looks quite stock, I'm not terribly worried. However, I'm looking at stock radios (need to find a factory double-din (pure double-din not needing a kit to convert to aftermarket). Then rip off the face, trim the edges, and place it over the screen. Use small metal hooks and fishing line to keep it over the screen (hooks will clip into dash above the kit @ the edge).

Ford radios are good for that. they've had double dins since the mid 90s. A quick trip to the junk yard or ebay should net you a cheap ford radio to hack up.

In CA if you have front tints and have not been ticketed, consider yourself lucky.

I live in California, and i have 30% front sides and 70% rear sides and rear window .. i have been pulled over many times for other misc things but i have not been ticketed for the tint. I know for a fact if you have ANY tint on the front sides it is illegal in california. But if you reduce the amount of tint on the front sides verses the rear of the car it may seem convincing from a distance. I have in the past gotten tickets for having front side windows tinted, but the timt shop i use now will at no charge remove the tint if you do get a ticket and they also gaurentee the tint for LIFE as well. I dont think i would ever drive around with no tint on my windows, you just asking for trouble.

"Knock on wood". I have 20% on my rears and front doors and I have not been ticketed.

I always have a folded circulat sun-screen that I use for dashboard in summer. When I park at unfamiliar places that I feel worried, I use the sun-screen to cover my dash and not the windsheild. I usually do that at night and I hope that is frustrating enough for a thief to even give up his curiosity.
Z1+Bluetooth+IPod+XM-NAV

i live in california and i have limo tint all the way around.....no problem here.....(knock on wood....)...had my tint for over a year now....

i live in california as well,
have light tint on front and dark tint for rear and back glass. Have done on both my cars for the last 6+ years, have been stopped by cop for other reasons, never for the tint.

i had.... 4% tint all around and then i got pulled over i live in florida FHP is horrable!

it seems we should request some kind of "security measure" from pioneer to fix this... There SHOULD be a cover or something that can be used other than "ghetto riggin'" our cars. No offense to you guys that did make up covers, you guys are ahead of the game, it's not like there's anything else we can do. So great job for now, but shouldn't we all be a little worried about this? I mean, even your most basic CD players have removable faces and covers for them, let alone a $2,000 NAV unit...
Let's pool up and write them or something

why offer a solution of they could just sell more units.... I think a "standard" faux faceplate from Pioneer will be "discovered" by theifs in about 3 seconds after its announced. meanwhile, a homemade radio facade is uniaue enought to fool a criminal.

Rodge said:

it seems we should request some kind of "security measure" from pioneer to fix this...

Careful suggesting that we contact Pioneer about a complaint will be shot down quicker than Bill Gates did on his prom night. ;)

I have a 2004 toyota tundra dc and it originally had a double dim cd player for a head unit so what I did was take off the front face plate of the toyota head unit and cut off any thing I thouhgt might scratch the z1 screen and put some black felt over any parts that might scratch. and because the sides and top of the face plate have a 3/4 in lip it just hangs right on top of the z1. so looking through my window it looks like the crappy toyota cd player. I also got a compustar something something am 1500 car alarm that has the lcd remote to tell me if I am getting robbed. which works pretty good once in a while the wind or a chopper thats piped will set it off but not too often.

I have a 2006 Mustang GT and the Shaker 500 system and I pulled off the plastic face plate and it sits right on top of the Z1 screen and look stock. In the daylight you could figured it out if you spent some time looking but at night it is pretty tought to tell.

Easy Just get a two way paging alarm and make it obvious I lived in a place were everything got stolen even with a security guard and got my car broken into twice they took cheep stereos and alot of cds but as soon as i got my two way things stoped getting stolen.

And then do what I did make your alarm go off every once in a while so that they are awere that there is security for your car.