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Anyone have an aftermarket radio in your SA?

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Old Sep 27, 2008 | 05:39 PM
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Anyone have an aftermarket radio in your SA?

I'm just trying to figure out how and if a modern CD player will fit in the SA's center bezel. It has such small openings for one I would think you'd almost certainly have to modify or cut out the bezel to fit a standard DIN player.

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Old Sep 27, 2008 | 06:08 PM
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Pretty much any modern radio mount will require cutting sheetmetal. The stock radio (like all of them at the time) mounted from the **** shafts, which modern radios don't have.

You can trim the sheetmetal out to accomodate DIN pretty easily, but it's a one-way deal. I used a dremel, hacksaw, and files.



I wanted the below space for a guage set.

Many people have taken to mounting DIN radios in the space below the stock radio (where the casette player, or the storage cup, are) to avoid carving metal.

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Old Sep 27, 2008 | 09:19 PM
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So the moral of the story is to find a spare bezel to play with? I think there's one in the car at the local junk yard... Gotta get a CD player first though
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