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The ultimate in Jeep Wrangler upgrades - The Alpine 9" Multimedia Navigation System
Your life is an adventure. Your active lifestyle is not confined to four walls, so you rely on your Jeep Wrangler for work and play. The X009-WRA is the upgrade you need to keep up with your busy life from work to play. Keep your factory controls and add enhancements like navigation, HDMI, USB, customizable short-cuts, Bluetooth wireless technology and sound settings optimized for your Jeep Wrangler – all controllable through the easy-to-use, large 9-inch touch-screen. With its over-sized screen, integrated system and advanced technology, this premium Alpine system will restyle your Jeep and provide you with an unsurpassed quality driving experience that the factory cannot match.
Price: U.S. $2999.99
Professionally Installed 3 Year Warranty
Keep the Factory Controls
Retains All Wrangler Feature Variations*
- EVIC Cluster Display (If Equipped)
- Media Player (If Equipped)
- Tire Pressure Information
- Bluetooth® wireless technology with Voice Commands (If Equipped)
- Steering Wheel Controls
- Parking Sensor integration
- Customizable On-screen Vehicle Information
Wherever Life Takes You, You’re Covered
The Alpine Jeep Wrangler X009-WRA offers reliable navigation to wherever work or play may take you with preloaded NAVTEQ® map data of the United States and Canada, including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, which translates to maps galore. With turn-by-turn instructions delivered by Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology, street names, freeway numbers and freeway exit names are announced clearly through your vehicle’s audio system. Choose from different intuitive map view options, such as 3D mapping, split map, and turn-by-turn arrow view. This unit also features Alpine's exclusive Graphical User Interface with intuitive screen graphics, so it's easy for you to find your way. Thanks to the included free lifetime traffic service, see the congestion ahead of time so you can choose an alternate route. Get quick and easy directions from start to finish.
Built-In Digital HD Radio®
Alpine does HD. Get all the music and programming you want to hear in a crystal-clear digital format. FM stations with CD-quality sound and AM stations with FM-quality sound, both with virtually no distortion. Extend your music choice further with multi-casting capability HD1, HD2, and HD3 and you'll hear more talk and music content from the stations you already receive. Alpine’s exclusive Smart Reception Management keeps you tuned in to your favorite HD digital sub-channels, even when you’re in an area with limited digital reception. To find stations near you, visit HD Radio.
Satellite Radio Ready
Upgrade your sound experience and expand your entertainment choices by adding SiriusXM satellite radio to your X009-WRA. Using the SiriusXM Connect Vehicle Tuner and a SiriusXM subscription (both required and sold separately), you get access to an expanded channel lineup of new and exclusive commercial-free music, sports and comedy.The Alpine X009-WRA lets you control SiriusXM features including iTunes® Tagging; SiriusXM Replay™ for pause, rewind and replay of up to 30 minutes of live SiriusXM content; Song Alert and Artist Alert for notifications when a favorite song or artist is playing on any channel; and Game Alert™ for notifications when your favorite teams from the NFL, NBA, NHL or college football and basketball leagues are playing live.
See Beyond Traditional Blind Spots
Alpine makes it easy to add Drive Assist camera systems to any Alpine AVN system. Choose from a variety of camera systems that make parking a breeze. Alpine cameras are durable and specifically designed for wide-angle and multi-angle views for front and rear applications.A direct connection ensures the highest picture quality for day or night use. All camera solutions are a perfect match with Alpine's in-dash AVN systems, but they are also compatible with screens from other manufacturers.Add a front thermal image FLIR camera with anaimal and pedestrian detection. Click here for more information
Works with Pandora Internet Radio for iPhone and Android Smartphones
Stream music from your Android smartphone using Alpine’s Advanced technology. With your Android, enjoy easy wireless operation of your favorite Pandora channels with Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down buttons directly on the faceplate, Quick Search features, and even create new Pandora stations and bookmark your favorite tunes on-the-go. Alpine’s Media XPander PRO DSP-Sound Expansion circuitry ensures the best possible sound for streaming music from your Pandora connection. To enjoy the same great Pandora features from your iPhone, simply connect the included iPod / iPhone audio / video cable.
Remote start now available for your Porsche Panamera Luxury Vehicle
Regardless of the outside environment you can now enter your Porsche to a climate you are more accustomed to, from cooling off the interior in the warm weather to heating it during the cold winter days. Access 1 Alarm and Audio, Cleveland Ohio's leading Viper dealer, can professionally install a remote start systems that will allow you to start your vehicle 15 minutes prior to entering the vehicle.
Offering multiple solutions from the basic system that utilizes the factory key fob to the SmartStart 2-way system that includes communication to and from the vehicle to your smartphone with virtually unlimited global range.
A spare key will be needed for the vehicle to remote start
Please contact our locksmith division for pricing 216.252.KEYS
2007 Audi Q7 Bluray DVD Player Integration to Factory MMI System
The classy 2007-2008 Audi Q7 lacks the playback of DVD Video while in park. Access 1 Alarm and Audio offers a custom video integration module that allows 3 Audio/Video sources and a rear camera to be displayed on the factory MMI screen.
This option viewed in the photos, incorporated an external Bluray DVD player mounted in the glovebox. Upon being loaded with your movie, the unit can be controlled via a wireless remote control. Since the Audio is a closed loop MOST optical system with no external audio inputs from the factory, an optical audio interface was utilized to enable an audiophile quality audio signal to be generated on the optical system and played throughout the vehicles speakers.
The Bluray DVD player was also incorporated with the aftermarket DVD headrest system allowing for all the screens to display the same movie or 3 different movies.
The Audi Q7 integration kit is completely expandable and tailored to fit any of your needs. Examples of what you can utilize this kit for are:
- DVD video
- Bluray video
- Navigation
- Rear camera
- Front camera
- FLIR thermal image night view camera
- iPad/iPhone/iPod/iTouch integration
- Android operating system from your phone integration
- Game System
- Anything imaginable that can display an A/V source
Be sure to check out the Navigation integration that we performed utilizing a Garmin Navigation system here: CLICK FOR LINK
Other options are factory SiriusXM and Bluetooth phone integrations.
Quality Accessories For Past Aston Martin Vehicles
Have an Aston martin that is not a current production model? Don't worry we have you have covered. Contact us by the link below and we will respond to you by the next business day.
Radar Detectors and Laser Jammers For Your Aston Martin
Access 1 Alarm and Audio offers multiple brands of radar systems such as Beltronics, Escort, K40 and the ultimate in laser protection, AL Priority. Even though it is uncommon for a company such as Access 1 Alarm & Audio to put all its eggs in a single basket, we can’t professionally recommend any other equipment other than Escort or Beltronics paired to the AL Priority due to Cleveland’s unique speed measuring threat. We have multiple systems for different budgets with different levels of protection.
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The BEST that money can buy!
If you want a system that exceeds all other radar detectors and laser jamming capabilities then there is simply nothing better than the Beltronics STiR Plus coupled with the AL Priority Laser jamming system. The Beltronics STiR Plus offers GPS warnings of approaching red light cameras, speed traps, speed cameras and long range radar detection of all police radar bands. The system includes an interactive display to inform you of the threat and a control panel for accessing the many features of the system.
What compliments the best radar detector? Simply enough the AL Priority! No, it is not a household name...YET! However it is a company that has pioneered laser jammers from the beginning and offers the most powerful laser jammer on the market. The AL Priority is completely customizable allowing you to use the basic single jammer or for those with larger SUV's, five laser sensors providing three units for the front and a pair for the rear of the vehicle.
Options to customize the system include a Bluetooth interface (sold separately) that interfaces the functions of the control panel to an iPhone/iPod.
Pricing starts at $2999.99
Professionally installed depending on options and vehicle
A GREAT "all in one" custom installed system!
We offer the Escort 9500ci, a custom installed complete radar/laser system with the all new Laser Pro Shifters (laser jammers). Like the Beltronics STiR Plus system above, the Escort comes with GPS warnings of approaching red light cameras, speed traps, speed cameras and long range radar detection of all police radar bands.
Once the weak link of the 9500ci, the new Laser Pro Shifters offer a huge improvement over the past generations of laser shifters and cover a large portion of the United States and Canada. One of the best quality laser shifters on the market, they are similar to one of the industry's leading laser jamming company, Laser Interceptor.
Pricing starts at $2199.99
Professionally installed depending on options and vehicle
A GOOD choice for multiple vehicles!
Do you have multiple vehicles but do not want to add a custom installed system on every vehicle? A smart option would to be install an AL Priority Laser Defense System or an Escort Laser Shifter Pro to each vehicle as a stand alone system then add the Escort Max2 portable radar detector with built in GPS. An Escort hardwire kit ($89.99 installed) would be needed for each vehicle which will enable you to take your Max2 from vehicle to vehicle.
Pricing starts at $599.99
Professionally installed depending on options and vehicle
So what makes these detectors so great compared to others?
The following is the main features that will make your drive more pleasant which are not found on other radar detector systems.
GPS learning allows for the rejection of the false radar signals by the radar drones on the highway while still looking for real police threats. Radar drones are spaced about every mile and turn on briefly. They are used to measure the speed and traffic flow which is then reported to various companies such as Garmin, which uses that data to provide real time traffic flow to your vehicles navigation system.
The red light camera and speed trap database ensures that you are warned of an approaching red light camera or a speed camera. This alone will pay for the unit itself within the first year and for some, within a week! This database is updated monthly to keep up with the current addition of cameras and traps.
Adaptive Signal Processing system uses GPS technology to automatically "learn" (by exact location and frequency) each radar signal and determine if it's a real threat or not. This data is updated real-time during your drive, and provides the most accurate alert system possible. The result is the most accurate long-range protection in the industry and a permanent solution to false alarms. You drive. It learns. End of story. Nothing could be easier.
DEFENDER® Database - Thousands of safety camera locations, including red light and speed-based cameras throughout North America. You can also download updates, back up your data, and stay on top of new threats directly from Escort’s website. These units also come complete with a 3 year Defender Database Subscription for FREE.
Variable-Speed Radar Performance, PASSPORT's Auto Sensitivity mode varies radar sensitivity based on your vehicle's speed. The result is radar performance when needed most.
Mark Location The PASSPORT 9500ci's "Mark Location" feature enables the customer to manually mark known speed traps, camera locations, or anything else worth noting. Once stored in its memory, the 9500ci will provide sufficient warning for all of these points of interest.
While most Police Departments use both K band radar and Laser guns, there is NO active defense for radar. Escort and Beltronics offer some of the best radar detection units on the planet and will cover instant on guns beside the normal X, K, Ka bands. Instant on guns are the type that the police officer points, pulls the trigger, and the gun transmits and receives a signal with your speed almost instantaneously. But what about laser?
Laser guns, or LIDAR, are an aim and shoot detection unit that is light based with a smaller focused transmission beam that is not broadcasting to everyone on the road like radar does. Fortunately it is completely legal in the state of Ohio and most of the USA to "jam" those signals. The AL Priority and the new Laser Pro Shifters from Escort will defuse the signal or “shift it” not allowing the laser gun to read the vehicles speed, thus you not getting a ticket!
What about the portable unit that you are currently using or have used in the past that has laser detection? We call this ticket confirmation. The laser gun the police use will instantaneously know your speed and it happens so fast you would need to react in less than a second (.0000001 seconds to be exact). So without an active laser jammer you will be confirming the ticket with the laser detector.
Just when you thought your dash had it all, the X110-SRA raises the bar. With its groundbreaking 10-inch touchscreen, the X110-SRA is truly the largest factory radio replacement for the 2014-up GMC Sierra available, period. Don’t judge the X110-SRA just by its screen, though. The X110-SRA is packed with new features and controls befitting of its revolutionary size. There’s no doubt the X110-SRA will make a statement in your GMC Sierra and upgrade your driving experience.
The 10-inch X110-SRA is Alpine engineered specially for the GMC Sierra. The X110-SRA comes with a stunning dash bezel that houses the 10-inch screen and provides a matching fit and finish, as if it came that way from the factory. The rotary volume knob and big crystal buttons for music and navigation sources are backlit to match the Sierra’s factory gauges. Other hard keys provide direct access to the main menu and My Favorites feature.
Before and After
Factory System
Alpine System
The ultimate Ram Truck upgrade has arrived - The Alpine 9" Multimedia Navigation System
Your 2013-UP Ram truck can now have the best-looking dash around with the 9 Inch X009-RAM* Restyle Dash Solution upgrade. Whether hauling for work or some serious play, you’ll keep your factory controls while gaining a large 9 inch touchscreen, reliable navigation, Bluetooth® wireless technology, sound settings optimized for your truck and much more.
Every 9 Inch Restyle Dash Solution comes equipped with a stunningly restyled factory-fitted dash bezel system, quality dedicated hard keys that match your vehicle’s dash lighting for a truly uniform look and an easy-to-use infotainment touchscreen system. The hard keys are fully integrated for quick access to the infotainment system’s core functions such as navigation, vehicle information, volume, phone access, My Favorites feature and rear camera view.
Ram trucks are all about guts and glory, so why not add to that performance with the only 9 inch aftermarket navigation touchscreen in America? Order yours today.
Price: U.S. $2999.99
Professionally Installed 3 Year Warranty Including Backup Camera*Not compatible with factory equipped 8.4 inch screen models.
Quality Accessories For Your Chevy Avalanche
We don't just don't add parts, we provide you with a quality integration as if they were installed by the factory. From backup cameras to remote starts, we hand select the parts that we know will hold up to daily use and provide years of reliable service. Not only do we provide you with quality parts, we provide you with a quality installation from our highly trained and capable technicians.
Below are some of the products and services that we provide with more information and owners manuals.
Ghost Shadow Valet Lights - Light The Way To Your Vehicle With Style
The new fad covering the automobile world is the implementation of the Ghost Shadow valet lighting kits. Access 1 Alarm and Audio is Cleveland, Ohio's source for quality valet lighting such as the Ghost Shadow lights.
What are Ghost Shadow lights?
Ghost Shadow lights are a valet light that upon opening the doors shines a logo on the ground. Logos can be the vehicle make, model, or a custom logo such as Batman, Superman, Captain America, or even the Deceptacon image. Want your own special logo to be displayed? Since these kits are made and designed in the United States, a special order with a minimum quantity can be made for your vehicle.
Quality
Yes, there are several types of valet lights out there that imitate the Ghost Shadow lights that we stock at Access 1 Alarm and Audio, some cheaper and some even more expensive. But what makes ours better than the rest? Access 1 Alarm utilizes the original Ghost Shadow light kits that come with the very high end CREE 5 Watt LED that illuminates a laser etched piece of glass. The glass is not plastic and disperses the image vividly and accurately. Further our kit comes with a metal housing unlike the plastic housing that comes with the imitation kits.
$199 per pair professionally integrated
Turn your alarm system into a security system!
Well what does that mean? You just spent a few hundred dollars on an alarm system to protect your vehicle and you go to bed at night feeling easy knowing that your vehicle has an alarm system, but is your vehicle really protected? Time and time again we hear from many people across the nation or read the stories online in forums that the vehicle was broken into or worse, stolen and had an aftermarket security system installed on it. So what to do?
First by definition an alarm is a signal that warns or alerts while security is the state of being protected or safe from harm. Two different terms each describing an aftermarket or factory system, but which one would you prefer for your vehicle?
Now we do write alarm system throughout our website but that is because the term is loosely used in the world and makes it easier for Google to search the term when people do not distinguish between the two. However, we hope that more people read this and armed with this knowledge understand the difference.
Access 1 Alarm & Audio's basic alarm systems come with door trigger monitoring, siren, shock sensor, flashing parking lights, keyless entry, starter interrupt/kill and a flashing light indicating the status of the alarm system in which all are professionally installed by one of our highly skilled and trained technicians. Currently this is an alarm system as it will warn or alert anyone within ear shot of the vehicle. Now there is some limitations to the basic system as it does not monitor the trunk or hatch depending on the vehicle and the hood leaving them vulnerable to thieves. A pin switch at a minimal reasonable price can be added to ensure that they are integrated into the alarm system.
Layers!
Layers is what turns an alarm system into a security system and the more layers the better protected the vehicle is. For instance there are several add on sensors that will activate the alarm like a proximity sensor, tilt sensor or glass break sensor and will be discussed further in this article.
2-way security systems are the first reasonable route to go with which are like the basic alarm systems listed above but have the capability to page your remote control from 1000 ft to a mile away depending on the system which will inform you that the alarm system is going off. The draw back to the 2-way systems is that the max range is limited to a mile maximum on the premium 2-way systems and you have to be carrying the 2-way remote control fob with you. Now you can add SmartStart which will increase the range globally if you are within cell/Wi-Fi service and will provide you with text, push notifications and email to your smartphone.
View a list of available security sensors by CLICKING HERE
Turning the alarm into a security system
The first step is to add the hood and trunk/hatch pin triggers, this allows the alarm system to monitor those areas and inform you if they are opened while the alarm system is active. The trunk is where we store valuables or is an entry point into the vehicle. The hood trigger monitors the hood area as it states and is an excellent option to add as this is where your battery, horn, and siren are located. With the battery disconnected your alarm system will not sound, and if your siren and horn wires are cut nothing will be heard.
Next would be to hook up the horn to the security system, this provides an audible warning that when combined with the siren is louder and draws more attention to the vehicle when the system is triggered.
Now it's time to add the layers of protection with additional sensors. A field disturbance sensor or perimeter sensor is an accessory that will monitor the perimeter of the vehicle and chirp if someone was to be within approximately 2' of the vehicle informing them that you have a security system. This sensor has a dual zone capability and if someone was to reach into your vehicle with the convertible top or the windows down it will set the security system off. If you have a 2-way system or SmartStart you will be notified.
Another sensor is the glass break sensor. The glass break sensor sets the security system off when it detects the frequency of broken glass. Yes you will have a broken window, but your vehicle and most likely the contents will still be there.
What about your rims or towing? The digital tilt sensor is a great addition to the security system and will monitor the vehicles angle regardless if you parked on a hill or a level surface. This sensor will trigger your security system if the vehicles angle has been tilted 1 or 3 degrees.
The shock and impact sensor, this sensor is included in all of our basic alarm packages but it deserves some explanation on what it does and does not do. The shock sensor will generate a warn away signal for minor impact or vibrations picked up on the vehicle and will set the security/alarm system off when it detects a heavy blow to the vehicle such as someone hitting it. This sensor is completely adjustable however it will not set the alarm off or trigger a warn away when the vehicle is simply touched.
SURPRISE the thief!
Here is a few additional items to turn your alarm system into a security system and will make the thief's attempt to drive away with your vehicle much harder.
Our favorite is the backup battery siren, this siren will sound if the thief cuts the wires to the siren or removes power to the battery and will continue to sound until turned off with a security key or power is restored to the vehicle.
How about a backup battery for the alarm system? This accessory powers the alarm and triggers the security system when power is removed. Surprise! The system still works.
The interior pain generator mini piezo sirens are great for placing in the interior of the vehicle and activate when the security system is triggered causing the thief to not want to be inside the vehicle.
Convenience
After all you go through great lengths and a financial burden to keep your vehicle and its contents protected, what can it do for you? How about adding remote start, power trunk actuator, window automaton, power door locks or power windows if not equipped or even headlight automation that will light the way to your vehicle at night upon disarming the security system.
Cool features
How about a security system with the talking voice module? "Protected by Viper stand back" yes, the voice module can interface with your security system and besides Viper specific messages, it can do it in Spanish or English. The addition of extra LED flashing security lights or the blue high visibility electro-luminescent "Protected by Viper" flashing warning panel lets the thief know you are serious about the security of your vehicle.
Guarantee
What is the guarantee after you do all this or add additional sensors that your vehicle will still be there when you get back to it? Well besides our lifetime guarantee on all alarm systems parts and labor, Viper backs it up with Viper's one-year Guaranteed Protection Plan and is the most generous in the industry. GPP refunds your comprehensive insurance deductible up to $2,500 if your car is stolen with a Viper security system installed and armed – whether your vehicle is recovered or not! Click HERE for more details.