surf stereo quizz

[phoebelala]

Hi,
My truk came with a double decker thing that has tape/cd and Rad. Questions; the CD works sometimes and others it just whirrs, I guess this is down to a mucky lense on the laser but is it worth fixing? Tape works fine and radio has a good "hiss" on it (no twig you see) probably got snapped off on the boat.

Where can I get a new radio mast? the shop on here seems to be out of stock still.

I only want radio 2! will I need an "expander" whatever this is.

Thanx folks


Al.

[kiowa]

you can get a mast from here http://www.toyotahilux.com/index.php?doc=11&cid=393 and it should pick up radio 2 without a band expander

[phoebelala]

Nice one, thanx friend.

Al.

[30Surfer]

Yank it out and stick in a U.K one....much easier and no fuss....

[phoebelala]

good input mate but problem is it looks like a lot of work to out the original. I recon its an hours work to get the lower dash in bits. Is this a good estimate?

Al

[30Surfer]

hehehe....it's about the only thing I can do on my surf.(3.0L)

I would imagine all in all now it takes me about an hour in total to replace one stereo for another. I've put a few in there since i've had it, changed the pioneer one that was in there when I bought it for a u.k cd player then changed that for a cassette head unit with multichanger and now settled on a MP3 player...

There are diagrams on here somewhere showing exactly how to dismantle the lower dash to get to the stereo unit. But to fit a single DIN unit you will need to buy a cubby box for the space underneath the unit thats left.

[trekjock]

I'd agree. Once the CD changer goes, there's little point in keeping the thing unless you REALLY only want to listen to Wogan & co. You can only use another one of the same make and model to replace it. And a shopping trip to Halfords etc is a little less expensive than one to Japan!

I had a local radio shop replace mine with a fold out screen jobbie and as 30surfer says a cubby unit for me sweets!

Took him about an two hours (there's a lot of wires behind there you know!)

Good luck

[Dog_Book]

good input mate but problem is it looks like a lot of work to out the original. I recon its an hours work to get the lower dash in bits. Is this a good estimate?

Al

Sorry NO, the lower dash comes of in around 15mins. Trust me its really easy

[mupp1t]

Sorry NO, the lower dash comes of in around 15mins. Trust me its really easy

i took my compleat lower dash out in 10mins then spent 5 hour's redoing the wire's cos the tw*t that owned my baby before me thought he was a sparky!!

[Dog_Book]

i took my compleat lower dash out in 10mins then spent 5 hour's redoing the wire's cos the tw*t that owned my baby before me thought he was a sparky!!

Thats real bad

you need a 10mm socket on an extenstion and a posi drive.