OE Sony Headunit Removal

[kae]

Xmas Evening to you all,

I have an OE Sony Headunit in my car (tape & radio unit with CD changer controls) and can't work out how to remove the damn thing!
I've changed HU's in lots of cars, but I can't work out how to remove this one!
There are no obvious places to insert radio removal keys, and removing the front just reveals the innards - nothing to help with removal.

There is definectly a separate unit and cage, but I can't work out how to remove it!

Kae.

[Mikester]

i had this problem once, and i couldnt get it out for the life of me, so i just removed some dash and took the cage and HU out together. And replaced the cage. Chances are its not been fitted correctly!

[kae]

lol, that's exactly what I started to do last night, but it got too cold and dark and I couldn't see how to remove the rest of the surrounding dash (after removing the blanks to either side of the HU).

Anyone got a guide for dash dismantling?

Cheers, Kae 

[Mikester]

Well i just removed he lower and glove box, got my hand behind, and gave it a push / tug with the help of a screw driver, it all depends on if you want the HU after you done! lol. But i didnt, so i wasnt to careful, but with the glove box out you should be able to leaver it around i reckon.

[Ruji]

OE VW sony headunits can b a tad bit tempramental when removing...i'v come across some that have on board alarms built into the radio and when you remove the screws off the front after taht head unit face has been removed, it sometimes triggers a very high pitched alarm that makes it seem as if its coming from somewhere else in the car as its bouncing off all surfaces. neway...generally sony head units is the case of slottin 2 keys about central on either side...but most OE units are the 2 thin slots u see horizontal about tha top of the facia...one being furthest left at the top...and the other about 1 cm in from top right....are these there at all???

If not, then you may have to remove all the front panel to reveal the insides of the radio...and identify where it is being held in by the locking clips from the cage and just push them out from the radio chassis in which time u should tug on the radio to remove!

hope that helps!

[kae]

Removing the entire front of the radio just shows the innards, but no obvious locking mechanism.

Annoying as hell, might just end up removing the dash at this rate!

Kae.

[Mikester]

tried kicking it?

[kae]

I'm quite keen to avoid that course of action........

  Kae 

[Mikester]

light persuasion never hurt anybody

[BSCR]

iv got a PDF of the haynes manual - says how to get the dash out? pm ur email and ill send it over