Change of radio

[jimthack180]

The Jaguar radio in my 5.3 coupe, having been ailing for some time, has now completely packed up and I thought I would take the opertunity to upgrade to a CD player. However, I can't readily see how to remove the existing unit. I'm a bit squemish about pushing & pulling too much lest I should damage the woodwork. Any advice please ??

[poprivet]

The subject has already been covered in quite a few ways. Go to the search button right at the top of the page to see what others have done.
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[Jon]

The first thing to do is pull off the heater control knobs. Under there are a couple of lock nuts, which can be undone by using a couple of small flat bladed screwdrivers. Once they're out, the radio surround panel can be eased forward.

The radio bracket is secured using 4 screws or rivets, obviously if they're rivets you'll need to drill them out and replace with self tappers. Once they're out, the radio can be pulled out.

I would suggest modifying the standard bracket rather than trying to fit the cage that comes with your new radio. IIRC I cut off the rear securing mount on the bracket and drilled a couple of additional holes in it to line up with mounting holes on my new radio (some careful measurement required here to get it to sit flush)

[ng4xjs]

If it's rivets, it's original.

Nick

[poprivet]

Mine aint original! Nice CD player in there.
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[Mark_B]

If anyone wants the original Clarion radio/cassette with the auto-tuning and antitheft radio code, I have one here free for the taking, just give me the postage and I'll send it, or collect here from Luton.