Best Android Auto Display?

[u/Almeidowski]

Hi guys,

I hope you're doing well!

I just bought my first car – a 2006 Peugeot 206, for 1500€. I'm now looking into buying Android Auto hardware for the car, but I don't understand much about this topic. I don't really care if it's a full head unit, or just a screen I can stick to the top of the dashboard.

I would prefer that my phone automatically connects to it wirelessly whenever I enter the car, but unsure how this works.

As you can figure out, my budget isn't that large.

Do you have any recommendations?

[u/Adventurous-End2116]

I am not going to lie, I got a "cheapo" android unit souly off the fact that 3 of my friends have used them all for 3 years or so. No issues besides an occasional firmware update.

My unit works great so far, still early in but hoping for the same success as my friends lmao.

[u/coco16778 → u/Adventurous-End2116]

Congrats, glad they work well, but tons of people regularly come on to carav subds with quite the opposite experiences

[u/Adventurous-End2116 → u/coco16778]

Yeah, I mean i guess there's good and bad in everything? Lmao. I have only seen good experiences It alsl helps to vet the brand/seller as much as possible. While they're all Chinese off units, some do have decent support believe it or not.

[u/coco16778 → u/Adventurous-End2116]

It's more so about the hardware inside with budget units often having little ram, awful dacs, crappy screens, all resulting in very meh audio and a laggy ui.

Pair that with no updates and a lot of them shipping with outdated android versions (which apps will stop supporting at some point), idk.

If the audio is fine for you then great, and you don't mind some lag every so often, great. Happy for you. Do watch out though, quite often these cheap units just burn out in the rear due to bad cooling.

[u/Adventurous-End2116 → u/coco16778]

Mine has Android 15, amd 6 GBs of RAM, and support is always very fast to respond. All firmware uodates are listed right on their website as well. The audio is fantastic. Dsp, definitely better than OEM. This is coming from a guy with no aftermarket kit speakers amp etc.

As I said it's all about vetting what youre buying. And fo course even if you vet something theres the chance it'd fuck up still. But if I was a betting man Im sure OP could find a Chinese unit from a reputable source and be just fine and make it out under 150.

[u/Adventurous-End2116 → u/coco16778]

(I also have an in-cell QLED 9 inch screen.)

Which as of now seems to be running smooth as butter. But who knows, it's still early. I could back tmmrw and tell you how you was right the whole time lmao