Fitting an aftermarket headunit

[jollyroger]

Hi there im posting on behalf of my dad as he picked up a 320i today and I want to fit a pioneer cd player but the cage that came with it is too wide for the dash!?

Not had this problem before as I come from the nova scene and it was a straight swap on mine.

Anh help appreciated.

[Steviec]

It should still be the same.

The E30 has a normal DIN size hole for the radio, I can only guess you have some strange cd player?

Any chance of a pic of the dash and of the head unit?

[Steviec]

Oh, and welcome to the zone

[jollyroger]

I can get a pic tomorrow as its too dark now, the headunit fits fine but the cage doesnt?

I dont understand it either, its just a normal pioneer headunit which fitted fine to my nova, as you say it should be the std size

[gIzzE]

You have taken the surround off first?? I mean the fascia for the heater controls and clock or obc??

I have not looked at the stereo yet as I have only had my E30 for a couple of days, but I would guess this comes off, cage goes in and then the stereo slides in after the fascia is put back on??

[WerkdE30]

i have a pioneer head unit. had no toruble fittin it u just slide the cage in and bend the tabs out so it locks in then slide the head unit in. you only have to remove the old stereo not the surround. it is a bit of tight fit i made a small crack around the heater controls and got kinda angry.

run new speaker wires as the old ones run in pairs or sum strange shit and ditch the standard speakers they are crap. for real quality get the best pioneer speakers u can find and multi channel amp and run all the speakers through that. and some subs.