i cant get my ccd player out can someone tell me how or tell me a website where it can be found?
how do i remove my car cd player?
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, Nov 26 2005 05:42 PM
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Posted 26 November 2005 - 05:56 PM
what model car is it in....
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Posted 26 November 2005 - 07:03 PM
it's more than likey one of those ones that needs the tool down each side to remove it.
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Posted 26 November 2005 - 08:02 PM
Ditto that, spring clips down the side. Go have a look at the mounting clip/bracket at a stereo store so you can understand how they clip in.
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Posted 27 November 2005 - 12:56 AM
yeah just get to thing peices of tin and slide it down both sides it should come out if not push it from the back it should come out
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Posted 27 November 2005 - 12:32 PM
Easiest way to have your car CD player removed is to park your car at the local train station car park. It should be gone within a couple of hours.
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Posted 27 November 2005 - 12:47 PM
LOL hahahah choppper
If you take off the face of the headunit (and the mould that goes round it if it has one) you should be able to see the fraim that the deck sits in. Down each side left and right sides will be a small gap... you need to slide something down there that will fit. This will push the tabs away from the unit so that it can be moved. All you have to do is pull it forward.
If you take off the face of the headunit (and the mould that goes round it if it has one) you should be able to see the fraim that the deck sits in. Down each side left and right sides will be a small gap... you need to slide something down there that will fit. This will push the tabs away from the unit so that it can be moved. All you have to do is pull it forward.
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Posted 27 November 2005 - 03:50 PM
It may have the strap attached to the opposite end as well as the side clips mentioned above ^. The strap (if fitted) is just bolted onto the back end of the head unit.
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Posted 14 December 2005 - 10:39 AM
jigsaw blades do a fantastic job of getting down the sides to release them clips
but if worse comes to worse, chopper's idea sounds good
but if worse comes to worse, chopper's idea sounds good
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Posted 14 December 2005 - 10:07 PM
With all due respect here.. but are we helping someone to steal cd players. I am not implying anything but the question is a bit vague.
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Posted 14 December 2005 - 10:49 PM
I know where you're coming from but the above info ^ is pretty basic knowledge (it's written in every CD player's instructions when you buy it). Good ways to prevent people stealing your CD player are using araldite or similar on the screw threads, concealing the screws/bolts that hold the head unit in and also you can buy flexible brainded steel cable & loop it through the head unit's vent holes and padlock it to a metal part of the dash.
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Posted 15 December 2005 - 05:39 AM
I think you scared them off... they haven't posted since.....
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Posted 15 December 2005 - 09:32 AM
hrmm... good pick up there racean69
...think you might be right <_<
...think you might be right <_<
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Posted 16 December 2005 - 06:31 AM
Good points ^, it doesnt mention the type of car or the brand of cd player.
Re strap holding on from back, possibly not in a UC, the space is not deep enough to get most units fully in, does there end up being a lot of space behind in the LH/X.
Re securing the units to the car firmly or not, id prefer the cd player to be taken cleanly than having to fix up/replace/find another dash panel etc after they have just levered it out with the same bar they broke the window with. Car alarms are a good idea.
Though if the thieves got this idea, theyd probably steal more in a shorter time.
Re strap holding on from back, possibly not in a UC, the space is not deep enough to get most units fully in, does there end up being a lot of space behind in the LH/X.
Re securing the units to the car firmly or not, id prefer the cd player to be taken cleanly than having to fix up/replace/find another dash panel etc after they have just levered it out with the same bar they broke the window with. Car alarms are a good idea.
Though if the thieves got this idea, theyd probably steal more in a shorter time.
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Posted 16 December 2005 - 07:47 AM
If an older stereo, could be a case of old nuts around the two main knobs and a square hole cut for it to poke out and the strap on the back. Doubt it though, haven't seen a stereo like that since tape decks were all the go!!!
Pretty sure that with the new mounting brackets that the rear strap is not required. They's fixed in there pretty good.
Pretty sure that with the new mounting brackets that the rear strap is not required. They's fixed in there pretty good.
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Posted 17 December 2005 - 09:25 PM
takes me about 3/4 an hour to take my hu out...trust me i just did it today to put in a new one lol. i'd love to see someone try to flog it...not a easy job impossible to pry out without stuffing the unit...but enough about that lol. i like stuff to be waiting when i come back 
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Posted 18 December 2005 - 12:21 PM
lc boi, if a thief tried to steal your hu, do you think theyd care about your dash board? My friend's car got massacred to take the hu out. Thieves have a couple of minutes to get your stuff, anything to get it out will be used.
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Posted 22 December 2005 - 03:42 AM
That's what happened in my LC when I had it JBird! They just snapped anything in thier way to get what they wanted and left it unlocked with the door ajar!
I made a steel framed centre console (all welded) after that to keep the idiots from taking it.
I made a steel framed centre console (all welded) after that to keep the idiots from taking it.
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Posted 22 December 2005 - 10:49 AM
Bad luck flamenco. Thats the risk we take when we you put in some decent audio gear. Bloody bastards (thieves) leave us with two choices. Create a steel framed centre console (lol crazy bastard!) or just make it so easy to take out that they'll leave the rest of the car alone...decisions decisions.
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abit off topic but thats my two cents
james
abit off topic but thats my two cents
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Posted 29 December 2005 - 09:37 AM
Or you could just buy a HU with a detachable faceplateBad luck flamenco. Thats the risk we take when we you put in some decent audio gear. Bloody bastards (thieves) leave us with two choices. Create a steel framed centre console (lol crazy bastard!) or just make it so easy to take out that they'll leave the rest of the car alone...decisions decisions.
james
abit off topic but thats my two cents
HU's are worthless without the faceplate, as to buy a new faceplate costs you about as much as the entire unit (somewhat for exactly this theft reason).
I had my car broken into only a month ago when I was working at Royal Brisbane Hospital. (yes, this is why I'm completely shite at all this mechanic stuff and ask so many newbie questions
)Smashed front passenger window.
Everything in the car was turned upside down, center console contents all over the car, glovebox opened, even my jumper (had been sitting on back seat since it was last cold) was turned inside out and left on the front seat).
In the end they got: Absolutely nothing, I had my faceplate with me at work in my bag. (Although I worried for a bit as I had an old rego statement in the glovebox which obviously has my details and address on it)
Cost me $30 for a new window (which then all my windows got tinted a few days later)
Other cars were broken into as well, stereo's ripped out, doorlocks wrecked, windows smashed.
Some girl had spare car keys + house keys (NSW house) taken etc.
My shock sensor had gone off [alarm light gives me a flashign code to say what had triggered the alarm + siren beeps 4 times when disarming car to alert you that it has gone off at some point] when they cracked the window (I found the dent in the window weather strip where they put the screwdriver dopwn and leveraged it) so I assume my car was probably the last to get hit (no cars further down the parking lot had been done).
Oh, I forgot to mention, I have a siren mounted hidden away in the cabin [wherby you aint getting through the steel to shut it up
] (plus one under the dash - both individual of each other). So they would have had a screaming high-pitched as all F@#$ siren deafening their ears on the inside [I can't sit in while it's going off, it hurts] while they 'worked' their 'magic', plus the under bonnet one drawing attention to the car/area.Then if youw anted to steal the car itself, goodluck with number of security points I have on the poor bastard.
Next I want to import (in pieces) a 20k voltage steering clublock [illegal here in aus
].Unrealistically, it would be nice to have one of those wheel braces so it couldn't even be towed onto the back of a truck properly
I'm saddistic in the effort I have made theives go through if they want my car or anything in it
Left my car at 0600, knocked off early from work and came back at about 1400 to find that destruction.
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Posted 29 December 2005 - 05:53 PM
We went to a pool hall once - 7 cars got done ain the time we were there - even though there were security cameras there! 
My friend's car had his HU stolen even though the face was off it! Sometimes these people don't have enough brains to work out things like the cost of a new faceplate! eg: The autometer (mechanical) oil and water temp gauges I had were mounted on the scuttle panel of my old LJ. Came out in the morning and found they'd been wrenched off and the lines cut - the water temp gauge had a sealed line made of hollow copper, as soon as that was cut the gauge was useless! Go figure!
My friend's car had his HU stolen even though the face was off it! Sometimes these people don't have enough brains to work out things like the cost of a new faceplate! eg: The autometer (mechanical) oil and water temp gauges I had were mounted on the scuttle panel of my old LJ. Came out in the morning and found they'd been wrenched off and the lines cut - the water temp gauge had a sealed line made of hollow copper, as soon as that was cut the gauge was useless! Go figure!
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Posted 29 December 2005 - 08:16 PM
LOL Loki your story cheered me up =D
I like the way you've beefed up the security in you car.
Maybe we should all put a piece of paper in the dashboard that says
[SIZE=14] IM WATCHING YOU!
or If anything is taken out its worthless. they might just move on to the next car
J
I like the way you've beefed up the security in you car.
Maybe we should all put a piece of paper in the dashboard that says
[SIZE=14] IM WATCHING YOU!
or If anything is taken out its worthless. they might just move on to the next car
J
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Posted 29 December 2005 - 09:15 PM
Good idea putting the siren behind steel Loki, hadn't thought of that. I had 3 ccd cameras in my old LJ - I left the interior one switched on when I left the car (it was hooked up to a 12v video recorder). If & when I use that setup in my hatch I'll either use an old camcorder or some of those cheap kids video cameras in b&w record onto chips now...
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