James wrote:

Like John said....Cd-r's with what on? Mp3's or normal CDA tracks?

Halfords are simply overpriced. I went shopping for an Alpine MP3 player a
few years ago saw one in there that was "ok" at quite a steep price. Came
home, did a search on internet shops and found the next model up which
frakly was a whole lot better and nicer for cheaper than the price in
Halfords for the model DOWN from it.

Plus their fitting people are crap Decided to wire my work colleagues
stereo up backwards causing him to lose all his settings when he turned the
car off (it needed a permanant connection to the battery), so I had to take
it out swap two cables over (THAT WERE COLOUR CODED!! red in red, yellow in
yellow duh) and solved it for him.

Normal cda tracks. Not interested in MP3.

Considering how many branches they're got it's not surprising if
technical quality varies. Maybe he was unlucky. Anyway, Thanks a lot for
the reply, I will check on other suppliers.