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Offline Mark b

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Can I fit ...
« 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
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Re: Can I fit ...
« Reply #1 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
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Offline james2

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« Reply #2 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:
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Re: Can I fit ...
« Reply #3 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.
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Re: Can I fit ...
« Reply #4 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
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Re: Can I fit ...
« Reply #5 on: 08 October 2012, 07:40 »
It should have a seperate antenna..I broke mine :(
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Re: Can I fit ...
« Reply #6 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)
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Re: Can I fit ...
« Reply #7 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:
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Re: Can I fit ...
« Reply #8 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
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