I am looking to replace the head unit and speakers in my 02 Westy. Right now everything is factory. I need access to Sirius radio in a bad way! I read through some older posts but would like to see what folks are replacing with today.
Front door speakers look like a slam dunk, many options. Anyone have an experience or suggestions for the dash speakers and rear speakers? I want to be able to install the original covers on both. Also, for a new head unit dos a single DIN have to be used or can the small storage compartments also be removed and a 2 DIN unit be installed.
There is a reinforcement bar behind the dash that usually will interfere with the depth of a double-din unit (in my '00 Eurovan that I used to have I looked into that idea and it was a no-go). You can do it if you swap the rebar to the double-din rebar from a European-spec Eurovan that had nav. It's expensive though :-(
Hey guys
I installed a double din in place of radio and 2 top air vents .
This works great for me, i don't miss the vents because i have front and rear AC
I don't think i would do this mod though if i didn't have rear AC
Zoli
I have a clarion Sirius radio and cradle, no subscription, that I had in my '93. I mounted it on top of the dash and the clarion transmitted on an fm frequency that I could tune the factory radio to. as for speakers, I would replace the blown speakers with new ones, I buy mine fm parts express, they have a wide selection of parts-pieces, pieces-parts. hope this helps.
I ended up installing a Blaupunkt Brisbane 230 Digital Media Receiver, which is awesome because the lighting matched the van's dash lights (red and blue) and replaced the front door speakers with some 3-way Pioneers. For Sirius we stream from our iPhone via bluetooth. Next up is replacing the rears with some Polk 5".
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