To the fella's with car stereo knowledge...I NEED YOUR HELP!!!

Fella's.....and ladies too,

Just got me a spankin new 2004 Frontier Crew Cab that I'm using as my next lil "project" after my last project, a G 35 Sport Coupe, was sadly cut short by a driver with no insurance and an old Ford metal hunker.

Anyways, all was goin good. Just got rims, replaced stock fake silver running boards with custom chrome boards to match.

Then came today.

After work, flipped on the radio. Nothin good on. Then fired in one of my burned CD's.......and the nightmares began.

At first, the CD didnt want to play. So I tried ejecting the damn thing and all I herad was "crunkle, crunkle." Its stuck in there. So I was close by to a dealership and decided to stop in and visit with a tech.

Here's where it gets interesting.

They cant get it out either. As if that isnt bad enough, they then tell me that it states in the manual for "CD operation" (Which I convinently skipped to read the important and good stuff) that this player cannot play burned CD's cause they usually have a bigger depth then regular CD's. So they then proceed to run the "sales pitch" and tell me since I violated operation rules stated in the manual, my warantee does not apply and I would have to buy a replacement they sell in the neighborhood $400. Even better, the replacement wouldnt be here for two months. Nice sell guys, but why on earth would I buy a replacement that cant play burned CD's when all I have is burned CD's.

So now, on the fly, I shoppin aftermarket.

And that's where you come in.....

I'm lookin for a double din CD player with a nice display and preferably a tape deck to play my mix tapes once in a while.

What brand should I go with?

I've heard Alpine mentioned alot amongst my tuner-happy sport-compact buddies. I've also heard that Sony sucks. Is this all true....or is the "Nos' goin to there heads and killin a few brain cells?

And after my service nightmare with Nissan, which car audio store provides the best service and the best finished results? In short, who can I trust?

Tips, comments all appreciated.......

 

Yep.

Thata's the "car salesman" in those techs comin out. I'm not really buyin it either since I see no way how a sixteenth-of-an-inch can effect the ejection process of a CD player.

But get this.

One of my tuner buddies rides around in a SER. He replaced his CD player literally two weeks after buying the car cause the same thing happened to him.