think this would be worth 180$

[Foxfan88]

Theres a custom car shop here in town called extreme machines, you take their car in and they do stuff for you. Well my friend told me that for 180$ you buy and they install and wire a new cd player for you. Just take it in and pick it up and its ready to play.

Think i should do it later on with my mustang?

 

[Red_LX]

$180 to install a CD player? Damn!

I bought one of those adapter harnesses from wal-mart for $20 or whatever they cost, and installed mine myself in a couple hours. It's not exactly hard.

 

[bhuff30]

best buy will do a free install on almost any cd player you buy. I wouldn't trust either place with the installation myself.

 

[i4power]

I went to Ultimate Electronics when I got my player installed. $35 install for everything I bought (deck, wiring, amp, subs) The dude who installed had this Grand Am with a 12" sub that hit so hard it gave me nausea.

 

[JamesBaumann]

I installed my own by just paying close attention to the wiring diagrams that were included with the deck. It's fairly easy to do if you just pay close attention and work slowly.

 

[Foxfan88]

will i have to cut alot in the place where the radio is?
oh and the 180 isnt just for an installation, its buying the cd player also

 

[Asha'man]

I had Soundtrack install my MP3 deck when I got it, they offered free install even though they ended up charging me $40 to bypass/remove the factory amp. That's one thing that I know zero about - I couldn't even install a simple deck into my sister's Volvo. I haven't done speakers in my car yet (although I need to), but I *think* I should be able to do those without blowing something up. We can always hope.

Ash

 

[Foxfan88]

Hey ashaman, how hard was the tranny swap?
Is it hard to put in a pedal and how much was the thing where the shifter is?
and is it a part you replace or do you have replace the whole center unit?

 

[mr_woodster]

Ash, i have to laugh if your gonna pull off a 5 speed swap, lol a few speaker wires should be a cake walk !

Ps: on a side note my uncle once managed to wire his radio to the blinkers and windshield wipers...changing stations was a blast!

 

[Stinger]

If you buy a CD player and then get an adapter, it is IMPOSSIBLE to screw up, all the colors match...just connect the grey/black to the grey/black, green to green, red to red, etc...

 

[Cougar]

I installed mine with very few wires labeled, and spliced into the correct ones using a multimeter to help, and it still only took about an hour.

 

[blastit116]

i bought my stero from crutchfield.com and the included the wiring harness and every thing was color coded so i didit my self it took 30 min max

 

[TurboFlush]

I think in most cases the hardest part is getting the stereo out. especially these new ones they got. even if you do have a tool.

 

[Asha'man]

Hey ashaman, how hard was the tranny swap?
Is it hard to put in a pedal and how much was the thing where the shifter is?
and is it a part you replace or do you have replace the whole center unit?

Pedals were a pain in the ass. Not hard procedurally, just difficult and cramped. What thing where the shifter is? The boot is just attached to the plate, it comes on and off...

Ash, i have to laugh if your gonna pull off a 5 speed swap, lol a few speaker wires should be a cake walk !

Hehe, I know. I guess it's one of those things that just doesn't make sense, no matter what. Mechanical things I'm great with, but wires confuse me. I guess I'll have to get over that for the turboswap next spring.

Ash

 

[Jquintel]

If you buy a CD player and then get an adapter, it is IMPOSSIBLE to screw up, all the colors match...just connect the grey/black to the grey/black, green to green, red to red, etc...

Not completely true! i received a cd player from my brother for xmas one year, and it was an older used one (clarion)
anyways, it's not internally amplified, so i had to run wires from my amp to my cd player, and for some reason there's no harness adapter for any speakers, so i had to run wires from my amp to my rear speakers... talk about ghetto! lol

 

[lit_mike_2001]

Not completely true! i received a cd player from my brother for xmas one year, and it was an older used one (clarion)
anyways, it's not internally amplified, so i had to run wires from my amp to my cd player, and for some reason there's no harness adapter for any speakers, so i had to run wires from my amp to my rear speakers... talk about ghetto! lol

Hey man could you tell me some more about what you had to do to get it to work? I had an old clarion that i couldnt ever get to work, itd power up and stuff but i could never get any sound out of it. I figgered it was toast but maybe i just wasnt hooking it up right.

 

[kiddiccarus]

where do you live for 150 I may drive to install it for you LOL

 

[Jquintel]

Hey man could you tell me some more about what you had to do to get it to work? I had an old clarion that i couldnt ever get to work, itd power up and stuff but i could never get any sound out of it. I figgered it was toast but maybe i just wasnt hooking it up right.

Well basically, just went to wally world (walmart) and got a Harness kit for it, didnt use the speaker part cause the radio didnt have any, and used and small crappy amp to run speaker wire to my speakers

 

[89Stang]

cd player harness + walmart aftermarket harness connect wires
thats about it. Hell if you do it right you wont even need a fit kit! I managed to get mine in there and didnt move one bit. Kept that lil storage bin under it and everything. Worked great looked nice never skipped.

For non amplified decks just run the RCA outputs into the amps RCA inputs. Thats all. Hell I do that on my amplified decks because it sounds much cleaner than the crap built in amps they put in those aftermarket cd players....

 

[Jquintel]

cd player harness + walmart aftermarket harness connect wires
thats about it. Hell if you do it right you wont even need a fit kit! I managed to get mine in there and didnt move one bit. Kept that lil storage bin under it and everything. Worked great looked nice never skipped.

For non amplified decks just run the RCA outputs into the amps RCA inputs. Thats all. Hell I do that on my amplified decks because it sounds much cleaner than the crap built in amps they put in those aftermarket cd players....

Some aplified decks arn't all bad, i had an Aiwa that was pretty sweet