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Try neatening your wires at the back first, things like the antenna plug can get in the way quite easily.
The moulded plastic part(s) are for your air vents
The wires are *fairly* neat, the antenna isn't plugged in as I'm waiting on an adapter to arrive. Once I get my fascia trim piece and the radio I'm going to remove the climatronic again so I can pull the wires down as I push the unit back which may help a bit but I think that won't be enough.
The issue is my ebay cheapy head unit just sticks out a little more than some most likely
So if its just the air vents it *shouldn't* be too much of an issue if I try to compress them back a little?
The wires are *fairly* neat, the antenna isn't plugged in as I'm waiting on an adapter to arrive. Once I get my fascia trim piece and the radio I'm going to remove the climatronic again so I can pull the wires down as I push the unit back which may help a bit but I think that won't be enough.
The issue is my ebay cheapy head unit just sticks out a little more than some most likely
So if its just the air vents it *shouldn't* be too much of an issue if I try to compress them back a little?
Nope, from memory the plastic directly behind the head unit slot is for the vents under the seats
If your putting in a camera, just leave the dash pulled apart, I found best route under the centre console, there is a loom i tagged into, ran my rca's to the back, under the rear seats carpet, and then spliced the reverse lights power cable, then used this to turn camera on when in reverse.
as far as depth goes, if you've already hacked the cage, then there really isn't much more you can do, it's pretty squished back there, unfortunately having a big double DIN wasn't one of the considerations during original construction
Once you get your fascia hopefully it blends the h/u in a bit to the dash. Good luck!
If your putting in a camera, just leave the dash pulled apart, I found best route under the centre console, there is a loom i tagged into, ran my rca's to the back, under the rear seats carpet, and then spliced the reverse lights power cable, then used this to turn camera on when in reverse.
I actually just installed the camera, in terms of running cables I managed to run it behind the right hand side wall in the boot, then under the seats. Although instead of going up the middle I went underneath the drivers side plastic trim pieces and then up under the steering wheel. Cable worked a treat and you can't see the cable at all even when you lift the rear seats and spare wheel cover.
One small issue though, the screen gets no signal from the camera.... Just my luck. But i think it's cause I did a bad splice into the reverse line but I was too tired at 1am last night to try fix it. Will give it another go on the weekend.
Finally installed the head unit with the fascia piece off ebay. Unfortunately for me the head unit didn't fit in the fascia piece at first as the screen was too tall by a few millimetres. So had to sand back the top and bottom edges with a dremel style tool to eventually get a neat fit. Finally looks right now. And the fascia piece adds a bit of security as you can't remove the head unit without undoing other pieces around the centre console (i.e. you can't just pull the head unit out or use a removal tool).
This is what the the stock head unit (Eurovox) pins look like (on my 2001 Golf Mk4 - Australian version). The pins are not far in and need to be pressed against the body of the head unit at the same time. cheers
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