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Posted by Blind (Member # 3052) on :
 
before (how it was when I got the car)


after






GPS's



The mic for the bluetooth / voice commands stuff

sirius + gps antenna's on a magnetic pad

I had to use the sawzall and my dremel on the dash to get it in, but it's so worth it 8)

Still waiting on more vinyl dye, so I just have to live with the finish being off a bit until I can dye the dash piece, I retained the factory snap fittings on the top and sides so it's trivial to pop it out to dye it, then replace later.


I have an `04 center console and dash bezel to make this work, I also had to sawzall + dremal out the old mounting screw tabs in the dash and a bar along the bottom to make this fit, all in all took me about 3-4 hours to get it in right. It will look a lot better once I dye the dash bezel but I took the pics today so figured I'd throw them up

I have pics of during the install also if anyone is interested in what I had to cut/mod to make it fit.

[ November 02, 2008, 01:02 AM: Message edited by: Blind ]
 

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Posted by BlowN67 (Member # 4229) on :
 
if u done it urself very clean install.


 

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Posted by Blind (Member # 3052) on :
 
haha of course I did it myself, I'm too poor to pay anyone to work on any of my cars
 

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Posted by 50 Deep (Member # 6216) on :
 
Did u use a new edge dash?
 

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Posted by Blind (Member # 3052) on :
 
no, just the hvac bezel piece, the part that is lighter charcoal/gray in the pics that I need to dye black still
 

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Posted by Camaro Kid Z/28 (Member # 3100) on :
 
Looks great Kev!
 

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Posted by 92stangLX (Member # 3252) on :
 
very nice
 

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Posted by chevyeatr (Member # 7603) on :
 
that looks clean i have the same setup on my car and i have a pioneer unit as well with some slap.
 

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Posted by 50 Deep (Member # 6216) on :
 
That's koo man. I didn't kno those were straight bolt ins. Might have 2 look into it. So the buttons under the double din arent functional?
 

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Posted by RioredGT (Member # 2300) on :
 
How well does your satellite antenna work being on the inside of the car?
 

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Posted by Blind (Member # 3052) on :
 

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Originally posted by RioredGT:
How well does your satellite antenna work being on the inside of the car?

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you can see with the car parked in my driveway in the picture I put up that the GPS accuracy is "high".

the sirius works fine too, I get drop offs under overpasses and in areas with trees blocking my southern exposure, but it's no better or worse than the sirius in my truck that has the antenna on the roof.

and yeah, the buttons on the bottom of the double din bezel are non-functional, though I'm looking for a wiring schematic on them to make them do things for me, like I want the defrost button to be a manual override for my engine fan, and I'd like the light for it to come on when the fan is running. Maybe use the traction off button for arming the nitrous later
 

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Posted by Blind (Member # 3052) on :
 

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Originally posted by 50 Deep:
That's koo man. I didn't kno those were straight bolt ins. Might have 2 look into it. So the buttons under the double din arent functional?

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unfortunately it's not exactly a bolt in, I got to sawzall and dremel parts of the dash off



you can see the bar along the bottom that the buttons are hitting, I trimmed that back with the dremal.

And you can also see the posts that stick out up above where the old dash bezel bolted to, those I sawzalled completely smooth to the sides.




 

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Posted by 50Reasons (Member # 6452) on :
 
can i have your od bezil;
 

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Posted by 532Fastback (Member # 1482) on :
 
That looks badass!


i am putting one of those in my Fastback
 

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Posted by Blind (Member # 3052) on :
 

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Originally posted by 50Reasons:
can i have your od bezil;

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