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Old 03-10-2007, 01:05 PM   #30
KFreddy
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Re: Custom Autosound Stereo Review and Question...

Although post/shaft style radios can still be found on ebay, yard sales, flea markets and swapmeets . The most important information to have on hand is the dimentions of the stock radio for fitment. Distance between knobs and the actual size of the rectangular opening in the dash. I believe that the center of knob to the center of knob is 6.25" and that the opening is 4.5" by 2.25", someone help me here I'm going by memory.

For the most part any old school name brand shaft style radio; Alpine, Sony, JVC, Kenwood, Sanyo, ect is going to out-perform any of the USA radios. If you are planning to install an amplifier be sure that the replacement radio has at least one set of preamp outputs or at very least speaker-level inputs. If you have neither you will have to use a line output converter, to install an amp, and this will only deteriorate the oversound quality.

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