Re: Stereo Removal Tool

["Adam Lindsay" <adam@mindex.com>]

Um...how do you get the air conditioning controls out. These germans are
good at hiding the screws. =}

Not like my old Crystler LaBaron. I de-Stalled and in-Stalled a radio in
8mins flat with that car. =} Hardest part was progrmaming the radio
stations.

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Adam Lindsay
Mindex Technologies Inc.
adam@mindex.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Cleland <cleland@stlnet.com>
To: jettaglx@igtc.com <jettaglx@igtc.com>
Date: Monday, August 24, 1998 2:34 PM
Subject: RE: Stereo Removal Tool


>Hi Brian..
>
>Once you get the receiver out, you'll see how it works.. :-(
>
>I think I just used a thin strip of metal on each side, but the key for
>me was to remove the A/C controls so I could get my hand up under the
>radio and push from the rear.  That way, when I got the latch undone, I
>could push that side of the radio out a bit so it wouldn't re-latch.
>
>Good Luck, it was tough to get out until I saw how the latch works...
>
>BTW, I don't buy the dealer's argument about theft.  The durn radios are
>coded anyhow, so who would steal it?  More dealer BS.
>
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>Matt Cleland cleland@stlnet.com
>98 Jetta GLX
>Black/Biber
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-jettaglx@igtc.com [mailto:owner-jettaglx@igtc.com]On Behalf
>> Of Brian Wanamaker
>> Sent: Monday, August 24, 1998 12:52 PM
>> To: jettaglx@igtc.com
>> Subject: Stereo Removal Tool
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to remove the receiver from my 98 GLX so I can put in a
>> Blaupunkt unit. My stereo is the "VW Premiun" system that the more
>> recent 98s come with. It requires a special tool, not a normal DIN tool.
>> The receiver has two very narrow slots on either side of it, so narrow
>> that a thin ignition points file wouldn't fit in them. The VW dealer
>> will not sell me one; said if they sold them to the public, it would
>> increase radio theft. I doubt it, but what do I know? The dealer offered
>> to remove the receiver for me, but I prefer to swap the systems out on
>> my own schedule.
>>
>> Does anyone know where I can buy one of these forbidden tools? Or, has
>> anyone figured out how to remove the radio without the tool?
>>
>> I tried Timmons and Crutchfield, but they don't carry them.
>>
>> B. Wanamaker
>>