So a while back, Doug and I left the top down to our Miata when it was parked in his parents driveway. Long story short, sprinklers + radio = broken. After driving in a car with no radio for a couple weeks, I went crazy and we both thought it would be best if we bought ourselves a radio and install it. Doug warned me that this was going to take a long time, but I figured hey why not, it would be fun! Well it was fun, I learned a lot about wiring and what not, but he was right about the lengthy process.
Set Backs -
The first thing we had to do was to unhook the battery. This was difficult considering the battery is in the trunk, tucked under the side of the car. Lame placement.
The old owners of the car paid someone to install a 6 disc changer and they took off the dash part wrong. There were screws that he needed to unscrew, but he decided to just use brute force. (Correct term? I hope so.) This made it really easy to take the dash off, but not easy to put it back on.
When putting together the frame for the deck I was in charge of looking at the picture to make sure everything went smoothly. Well I was super determined that the sides went one way, but I was looking at one of the pieces upside down. -1 hour set back. Sorry Douglas! He was very nice about it and laughed it off.
Putting the deck into the car. We had to file down the sides to make it fit. Square does not fit into round.
Things that went smoothly -
Opening the boxes
Wiring the actual deck
Installing the speakers
Programming the deck.
5 and half hours later.
Here are some pictures of our adventure.
My job
Doug working hard at unhooking the battery.
Old deck out.
New deck wires.
Shrink something or other to keep the wires together.
Finally figured out the deck mounting.
Trying to make it fit. The bottom of our new mount was square. Square does not fit round.
Speakers
Crappy old ones.
New pretty ones.
Oh it looks so pretty.
Rockin out with our new radio.
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