Head unit

[socalmag]

What size is the opening for the headunit? Din and 1/2 or double din? Anyone have a flip out screen there? How does it look?

[Gumby]

factory is a din and a half I believe... I have a single din pioneer with 6.5 inch screen I think it looks great both colapsed and up for viewing. wish I had a better picture

[northeastern08]

i also think its a din and a half...there are head units (touch screens) that mount perfect into the space flush (non flip) with minimal alterations to the dash

personally, i kept the stock head because i liked the flow of it and i installed a monitor up in my sunglasses holder which takes care of movies and navigation

-todd-

[JamminWagon]

Originally Posted by socalmag

What size is the opening for the headunit? Din and 1/2 or double din? Anyone have a flip out screen there? How does it look?

You can actually squeeze a double din in. Here is my Kenwood DDX7017. The b*tch of it was that there arent any mounting kits for 2DIN. Lil fabrication of brackerts, stripping a reg mounting kit for the ears and trimming of the stock bezel, and it just slides in hahah.

[northeastern08]

i actually had a feeling it was double din, and that is the flush mount that i was talking about above...looks nice 356

[Hazman]

Kenwood KDC-MP925

[northeastern08]

356, what are those two LEDs in your center cluster?? alarm? for show? K40?

just curious

-todd-

[JamminWagon]

Originally Posted by northeastern08

356, what are those two LEDs in your center cluster?? alarm? for show? K40?

just curious

-todd-

Simulated alarm, they come on whenever the car is shut down. Works too haha, we had a rash of 7 cars broken into at one time. The cars on both sides of mine were ripped off. Not bad for a $20 invesetment haha.

[Crummy]

How hard is it to take out the factory and install an aftermarket head unit? We have a professional stereo installer in town that I am best friends with and he is nervous about removing everything.
Also installing a system? Amp/subs, how hard is that? I've done it to hundreds of cars just never on a Magnum. I know I'll need line converters and such but what else?

Thanks,
Chris

[JamminWagon]

This may seem like a hijack, but my reponse has basic info and thought I would share it. If there is any complaints I can delete this post and then start a new thread for crummy.

Originally Posted by Crummy

How hard is it to take out the factory and install an aftermarket head unit? We have a professional stereo installer in town that I am best friends with and he is nervous about removing everything.
Also installing a system? Amp/subs, how hard is that? I've done it to hundreds of cars just never on a Magnum. I know I'll need line converters and such but what else?

Thanks,
Chris

First do you have the "premium" stereo (with amp)? I HAD the base system. Removing the factory bezel is a snap, litterally. You have to pull out the ashtray and its mounting assembly (just pull on the astray). Then the bezel just pulls off. Mounting kits are easy to find for the non NAV systems. If you have NAV then it has to be custom fabricated. Of course you can always get a non nav bezel and reg mounting adater. Use an car wiring adapter to hook up the new HU. The only problem is that there is no ingition controlled power at the harness. The common method is to tap off of the cig lighter. And another possible prob is that if you have the smoker group, the cig lighter is constant on. That is easily changed by moving the cig lighter fuse in the other slot(there is 3 slots, center slot has a fuse lead and the other two determine if constant or ign power.

As for the level converter, if you are replacing the HU, you get a HU with atleast 1 set of RCA's (non sub). I am an Alpine freak and can recommend one of theirs, just tell me what you are looking to do.

Other than the ign power issue, it is a straight forward install.