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I am thinking about buying the Nifty City Apple Car play system. Does anyone have it and what do you think of it? The other question I have is there

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Old 01-13-2022, 11:47 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I am thinking about buying the Nifty City Apple Car play system.
Does anyone have it and what do you think of it?
The other question I have is there any other systems that people recommend for Apple Car Play.

I have a 2010 with Nav.
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Did you buy it ?
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I haven’t been on here in forever. Been modding my truck so the car has sat as is for some time.

I just bought the Nifty City Tesla style radio yesterday. I have an Android based HU in my truck and having wireless CarPlay is great.

I’ll let you know how everything goes.
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So I installed my radio yesterday and got a little more time with it this afternoon. Wow, what a difference from even a double din radio.

Now I’m not an audio geek, and I probably can’t tell the difference from a high end system to this, but the overall size and ease of use with CarPlay is a game changer for me.

I even sat in the chic fil a parking lot and had dinner while hotspotting my phone and watching a movie.

Extremely impressed with this and will continue to see what I can do with it.
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Looks awesome. I'm considering this upgrade too but not a lot out there actually showing what you can do with it after it's installed (I've looked on YouTube and seen some stuff). I assume it's like having a tablet in your car that also carries Android Auto/Apple Carplay too?

So, random question, what's the coolest thing you've found so far? What else do you like about it? Any negatives from your point of view?

Thanks in advance for your comments.

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I mainly got the unit for wireless Apple CarPlay. And the bigger screen is massive compared to my last 7” double din radio. I never really used the upper cubby, so this works much better.

I’m trying to find a good app that will allow me to connect to my dashcam, but I just started that tonight.

For my truck, I have a BT ODBII reader and have an app on my android auto radio to get gauges and such displayed. I’ll likely try that with the Z soon.

There are also a ton of launchers you can install to change the layout of your screen.
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I have the nifty city modular. Easiest to install. Only issues you need to hold back button to bring carplay up on the screen, phone calls on carplay is too low, and you can't see the volume setting. But, beside that, OEM with Carplay to use for WAZE and Apple Music.
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Nice! Thanks for the comments both. I too have an OBDII reader with an app on my Android phone with gauges so that would be cool to have a page on the screen with that info displaced (a-la GTR style!). I also read some people have ECUTek app running with similar (and map changing). The more I look into the Nifty City Tesla screen, the more I'd like one...
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Ships with Android 11. Where do you go for updates? Curious as to how often they are released.
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The Tesla style screen is expensive, but IMHO it’s worth it. Seems to be much better that the Brainiac system I’ve been looking at for a couple years.

You can also split screen many apps, so having those gauges on top and CarPlay or radio in the bottom.

I don’t see any updates on their website but I’m sure if there was an issue or any new features released you could email their support.
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I just ordered the Tesla Screen model from Nifty City this week. I have a 2010 Roadster with the Nav and had already installed the modular Nifty City system in that. Wanted to make the change to the larger Tesla unit.
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I just ordered the Tesla Screen model from Nifty City this week. I have a 2010 Roadster with the Nav and had already installed the modular Nifty City system in that. Wanted to make the change to the larger Tesla unit.
Let us know what you think. I’ve had a couple bugs so far, but nothing I can’t live with.
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So I installed my radio yesterday and got a little more time with it this afternoon. Wow, what a difference from even a double din radio.

Now I’m not an audio geek, and I probably can’t tell the difference from a high end system to this, but the overall size and ease of use with CarPlay is a game changer for me.

I even sat in the chic fil a parking lot and had dinner while hotspotting my phone and watching a movie.

Extremely impressed with this and will continue to see what I can do with it.
Thank you for the pictures. This is the first one I have seen with the carbon fiber upcharge. Is the carbon fiber a real carbon fiber overlay, or is it just a hydrodip with carbon fiber print?
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Thank you for the pictures. This is the first one I have seen with the carbon fiber upcharge. Is the carbon fiber a real carbon fiber overlay, or is it just a hydrodip with carbon fiber print?
I’m not sure how to tell. But I’m sure it’s just hydro dipped.
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