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Hi:

I want to get a Becker Mexico Pro headunit, but only see it sold in the UK. Would a unit bought from the UK work in the US?

Thanks.

Serge944

No reason why you cant. I know lots of people import stereos that aren't available here from Japan.

Also, why do you want to get that unit? Just because it looks like an OE one? You can get a much nicer unit for less than 330 quid.

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I'm open to any suggestions you may have, so long the lighting is amber/orange and it looks classy (read no flashing lights and screensavers). Preferrably with a remote as well (which I don't know if the Mexico has).

Charlie

Call Becker to find out if the european Mexico will work.

http://www.beckerautosound.com/

Continental sells Becker Products

http://www.continentalimports.com/be_radios.html

I found a Becker Traffic Pro at Cartoys 2 weeks ago at a great price.
This is a CD/FM/Navigation unit.
It looks and works great, looks identical to the Porsche CDR-220 made by Becker.

After looking at pictures, the Mexico Pro 4627 is identical looking to the CDR-220 and the Traffic Pro. The features my be different but appearance is the same.

jjjr944

Be forwarned that if you import a JDM (Japan Domestic) radio, it will work in your car and it will play tapes and CD's, but you cannot get the full FM radio band in one radio. You will have to choose between 88.0 to 101.9 or 102.0 to 107.9 I believe. It is just how the Japan broadcast system is set up.

I'm not current on how the EU is set up.

Good luck.

Scootin159

Kinda curious...why the split? Can they not have a radio that recieves both signals? What's the difference between the ranges (i.e. is there a content difference?)

sfuller1965

Hi, if you were to source from the UK you would get a range dro 88 to 105 Mhz which I'm pretty sure would cover all US transmissions, have you tried ebay?

Charlie

I believe European FM broadcast are different than the US. They don't use all odd frequencies like we do, how this would effect the radio reception I am not sure, that is why I would talk with the people at Becker.

sfuller1965

a receiver will simply scan the range available to it, if for example that range was from 88 to 105MHz then it would simply lock onto a broadcast, be that odd or even, does the US radio frequency operate beyond those frequencies? I suspect not and as such a UK sourced head unit would work perfectly well

Charlie

I found this at a website explaining the differences.

Radio broadcasting have differences between USA and Europe. Because of that some radios bought form USA do not work well in Europe and in the other way.


FM broadcasts
North American FM broadcast channels are on the odd 200KHz frequencies: 99.5MHz, 100.1MHz, etc. In Europe, channels can be on any multiple of 100KHz, even or odd.

This means that a digital tuner from the USA will not tune European stations properly, resulting in distortion. Some tuner models are switchable between the two schemes, but these are rare. Frequency synthesizing tuners in Europe do their actual tuning in shorter steps (for example 25 kHz). With analogue tuners you have no such problem because they aren't stepped anyway.

Be aware that FM stations in Europe use a different pre-emphasis than those in North America, 75 and 50 microseconds respectively

Serge944

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