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and i have to remove all of that stuff to get at the deck?umcamara wrote:Pull out the ashtray and remove the phillips-head screw.
Remove the plastic bezel that surrounds the shifter and includes the part that the ashtray slides into.
Remove the plastic panel that runs parallel to the driver's door between the door and the dash.
Remove the plastic panel that your knees would normally hit, there's roughly 2 or 3 phillips-head screws, 2 at the bottom, and 1 or 2 where the last plastic panel was.
Remove the plastic bezel that surrounds the dash cluster. Theres 2 srews at the top of the bezel, 2 directly under those, 2 near your knees, and 1 or 2 around where the radio is.
Now you can remove the screws and pull the radio out.
oh righteous!umcamara wrote:It's really quite easy to take that stuff apart.
However, not having had a stock head unit in the car when I bought it, I hadn't realized that you don't need to do that. The stock radio has 4 holes at each corner in the front, they should be covered by llittle plastic inserts. You need to gently pry those out. You can then insert 4 long skinny nails, or anything else you might have that fits, but it has to have pretty good bending strength because otherwise they'll just bend during the next step.
With all whatevers in the holes, pull the two on the left side towards the left, and the two on the right side towards the right at the same time. While doing this pull all the whatevers towards you.
There are radio removal tools for doing this, but they're not necessary. Ford, Volvo, Volkswagon, and I'm not sure who else use the same system in many of their cars.
I tried using a bent-up coathanger when taking the deck out of my parent's ford and it just didn't work, I struggled for a good half-hour before I gave up and just bought a set of remover tools for $5. When I took the deck out I realized that it would be next to impossible to pull that certain one out with anything but the remover tools because of the design of the clips.umcamara wrote:It's really quite easy to take that stuff apart.
However, not having had a stock head unit in the car when I bought it, I hadn't realized that you don't need to do that. The stock radio has 4 holes at each corner in the front, they should be covered by llittle plastic inserts. You need to gently pry those out. You can then insert 4 long skinny nails, or anything else you might have that fits, but it has to have pretty good bending strength because otherwise they'll just bend during the next step.
With all whatevers in the holes, pull the two on the left side towards the left, and the two on the right side towards the right at the same time. While doing this pull all the whatevers towards you.
There are radio removal tools for doing this, but they're not necessary. Ford, Volvo, Volkswagon, and I'm not sure who else use the same system in many of their cars.
ha ha.projectzemx3 wrote:pull really hard
Judging by his post count, he's new to the forum. Possibly to forums in general? Cut him some slack, we all have to start somewhere.umcamara wrote:Do you have any concept of time??