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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: Mark b on 07 October 2012, 05:01

Title: Can I fit ...
Post by: Mark b on 07 October 2012, 05:01
I've a w reg 2.0 gti mk4 golf and my stereo has a CD player and a tape deck underneath but will a double din stereo fit and work if as I want them taken out
Title: Re: Can I fit ...
Post by: miggs2002 on 07 October 2012, 07:18
i think you need the specific double din cage to make the unit fit, there is a strip of plastic across the middle of the current cage separating, the 2 units, not sure if you can just trim that and fit the double din, you will get one in somehow just not sure on the specifics
Title: Re: Can I fit ...
Post by: james2 on 07 October 2012, 14:09
Yeah take the old stereo out and put new one in.Double din should come with a cage if its new. :cool:
Title: Re: Can I fit ...
Post by: Granta Gti on 07 October 2012, 20:14
You need to get a plastic adaptor which acts as a cage. You can find them on autoleads on eBay as a mk4 double din adaptor I think.
Title: Re: Can I fit ...
Post by: Mark b on 08 October 2012, 02:33
Just seen on eBay a double din system with Bluetooth DVD GPS ect for £130 and the cage for it cost an extra £17.99 would I need to change the antenna for GPS to work
Title: Re: Can I fit ...
Post by: Hoggy on 08 October 2012, 07:40
It should have a seperate antenna..I broke mine :(
Title: Re: Can I fit ...
Post by: miggs2002 on 08 October 2012, 08:20
i have an AVIC sat nav double din in mine and it had the VW MFD in when i got the car, i left the VW aerial in but the plug at the stereo end on the vag unit was at a 90 degree angle whereas the new pioneer one was straight, mine was supplied with a gps antenna as should yours be but if not they don't cost that much, mine said to mount in facing the sky on the dash, it had a magnet on it so i fitted in to the right of the interior light upside down magnetised to the roof (under the head lining obv)
Title: Re: Can I fit ...
Post by: GTi_James on 08 October 2012, 13:01
type, mk4 golf double din, into google, should come up with a list of products that slot straight in... :wink:...got mine from the bay for £180 all in for everything and works perfect, the exact same unit from halfrauds wants £440 with out bluetooth, lucky my old man taught me how to count  :laugh:
Title: Re: Can I fit ...
Post by: miggs2002 on 09 October 2012, 08:23
i dropped lucky with a Pioneer AVIC double din unit that had a sticker on the box saying £799.95 and i paid £300 cos it was a display model that had been behind a full sheet of perspex since the day it arrived at the store so no sticky fingers on it, superb stereo and if i was ever to upgrade i couldn't get anything less than an AVIC unit now