Time for the old indash radio to go!
I have a 2004 Jayco Granite Ridge motorhome based on a Ford E-450 chassis, which has/had a Magnadyne radio installed in the dash. It has sort of worked - could play the Sirus radio through it, listen to the FM radio only if the station was already tuned in as the tuner will not tune to new stations, no cd, dvd or any disk will play in the cd player. Clock did not work. In short it's taking up space!
All the sites say the opening is not exactly a double din and you will have problems installing a double din into the old dash opening.
I found a deal on ebay for a double din with the display as part of the radio not a display that has to open, or display above the radio!
This one has bluetooth to connect to my cell phone - and a nice feature can play tunes, etc off my android bluetooth cell phone.
It also plays dvd, cd's, and has a usb plug in to play off it. A rear camera input. and aux audio input for the sirus radio, gps as well as a few more fancy features.
Our truck has a "standard" double din radio so my plan was IF this could not fit into the RV it was going into the truck.
I got the hard wire U tool to remove the old radio out of the dash.
To my surprise the dash opening only needed a bit of "modifications". Using a sheet rock saw - Lowe's tool - I sawed off about 1/8" off the top plastic and about 1/16" off the bottom plastic. All these cuts were done well into the back of the opening in the dash. Nothing was done to the Jayco "wood" looking dash insert. The radio normally is recessed into the dash anyway. The original opening is more than wide enough, it's the height that is really tight. Once the cuts were done the new double din radio fits in nice and tight!
I converted over the plug wires to the new radio wiring - seems all the wiring color codes are the same for the speakers which made my job a bit easier.
It's all working great! I have dvd, cd player, gps, reverse camera, aux input for Sirus radio, clock that works AND even a radio FM & AM tuner that works!
SO don't be afraid to remove the old in dash non double din radio to replace it with a more modern one.
All the sites say the opening is not exactly a double din and you will have problems installing a double din into the old dash opening.
I found a deal on ebay for a double din with the display as part of the radio not a display that has to open, or display above the radio!
This one has bluetooth to connect to my cell phone - and a nice feature can play tunes, etc off my android bluetooth cell phone.
It also plays dvd, cd's, and has a usb plug in to play off it. A rear camera input. and aux audio input for the sirus radio, gps as well as a few more fancy features.
Our truck has a "standard" double din radio so my plan was IF this could not fit into the RV it was going into the truck.
I got the hard wire U tool to remove the old radio out of the dash.
To my surprise the dash opening only needed a bit of "modifications". Using a sheet rock saw - Lowe's tool - I sawed off about 1/8" off the top plastic and about 1/16" off the bottom plastic. All these cuts were done well into the back of the opening in the dash. Nothing was done to the Jayco "wood" looking dash insert. The radio normally is recessed into the dash anyway. The original opening is more than wide enough, it's the height that is really tight. Once the cuts were done the new double din radio fits in nice and tight!
I converted over the plug wires to the new radio wiring - seems all the wiring color codes are the same for the speakers which made my job a bit easier.
It's all working great! I have dvd, cd player, gps, reverse camera, aux input for Sirus radio, clock that works AND even a radio FM & AM tuner that works!
SO don't be afraid to remove the old in dash non double din radio to replace it with a more modern one.
