9 Tips On Installing Car Stereos

[azkwazere]

Note to all VP owners...

If you had the same problem as i did, which im sure you do, you dont have rear speakers! this made me angry, so what i did is just ran new wiring, its not that hard. i emailed eurovox and got the wiring diagram which i am happy to email out to anyone who needs it so that you can install your stero. The rear shelf as far as i know is installed before the rear windscreen is put in, so it makes getting the thing out really hard! the way i did it was stupid, i cracked it....by accident and then just bent it in the middle and pulled it out, once screwed back down it didn't matter much but it was stupid none the less. advice for that would be to try and remove the rear window if possible or contact local holden dealership or audio install professional.

Hope that provides light to a VP owner somewhere!

 

[Tasmaniak]

Actually, if you removed the back seats, you would've found that the parcel shelf will slide out....no need to remove the rear windscreen at all......I must admit though. That is quite funny.....

 

[vn88calais]

cheers kim...great help

 

[vlv8vic]

really? VPs came out with no rear speakers? back seat takes about 2 minutes to rip out. would have thought there might be wiring chucked behind there somewhere cos id imagine other variations of the model may have has speakers there.

my camry had no speakers on the shelf but the wiring was neatly attached to the plate behind the seat. i guess the better models had speakers.

 

[Tasmaniak]

vlv8vic..the Camry....Do you mean I pull out the seat back rest and thats where the wiring is hiding? I'm planning on dropping a pair of 6"s into the rear of the wifes 91 Camry.

Sometime.....
Soonish?....
Perhaps....
Better things to do first!....
Stealth VL....mmmmmmmm

!_E-VL_!

 

[vlv8vic]

mine were actually tucked under the parcel shelf. entry via boot and were clipped to the steel shelf. the connections (female i think) were already there. there were actually 3 plugs i think, left speaker,, right speaker, and the other might have been boot light as i dont have one of them. all looked the same and saved a shitload of work!!! will need spacers im sure you know that!!!

 

[Tasmaniak]

why use spacers when you have a pair of nibblers?

 

[vlv8vic]

nibblers to trim the shelf? is that what nibblers are? the holes werent my problem they were stacks big enough, it was the rods for the boot under the holes that teh speakers were sitting on. just.

 

[Tasmaniak]

Hmm....time to pull out the 9mm MDF then I think. Might go under the carpet and make a new shelf.....spacers make me sick.

 

[stock_vl]

good work ppl.. with the aghhh 10 tips?
my mate works in melbourne at "commcorp" instal like some uper class uhf crap and seem to do like police car and taxi instalations... got him to steal some quality wires, and the 40% lead and 60% tin wire stuff for me =)

its all going great sooo far! woot!

i believe the bloke before me had an amp... everything for me is well setup and i just need to carpet my boot as i made it all custom for me =)

good luck ppl..

oooh
just to pretend im smart
tip
#11. make sure you know where all the peices come from once you pulled everything apart =(