Re: Stereo?

[dave <dave.leahy@cwix.com>]

Mark,
The job is cake. To make it easier you'll need to remove the climate control
section. Also easy. This is only so you have more room to work and not
stress the wires. Harness? You bet! In fact I have an extra one. I NEVER let
those gorilla's at the stereo place even LOOK in my car. Let me know if you
want that harness or need more help.

Dave
95 GTI-VR6 nice new head unit edition

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark A Williams <mw6b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: jettaglx@igtc.com <jettaglx@igtc.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 10:15 PM
Subject: Stereo?


>Heya, everybody,
>    I'm looking to put a new head unit in my '95 Jetta GLX -- I've got
>the unit already, in my old car (Bronco II).  The people at circuit city
>are contractually obligated to take my Pioneer out of the Bronco.  I
>thought since I'm an electrical engineer I'd do the VW install myself--I
>can work a soldering iron with the best of 'em.  When I asked them if
>they had the right wiring harnesses and adapters and such, they fed me a
>load of stuff like:
> "I don't think that has a wiring harness"
> "I think the speakers in those cars are individually amplified, you
>might want us to do it, since it could be a lot of rewiring"
> "You might have to buy a new CD player to make that work."
>
>And other such crap.  Now I know that some Jettas are like that (with
>individually amped speakers, or so I've heard from friends), but how can
>I tell if mine is like that?  I don't trust these Circuit Shitty
>salesmen any further than I can throw them (can you say "working on
>commission"?), and I _will_not_ pay them to do something I can do
>myself.  The Bentley manual has been fairly unhelpful in this particular
>department.
>
>A little info on my car/stereo:
>    --1995 OBDI A3 Jetta GLX
>    --It's the standard-issue tape-deck head ("Premium Audio", I think...)
>       with cd changer controller (but no CD changer, hence the swap!),
>       security code thinger, etc.
>    --No speakers in the rear deck
>    --One larger speaker in all four doors, near the bottom
>    --one tiny speaker in each _rear_ door, near the top, in front
>    --two speakers in the dash
>
>I don't mind paying to have the job done well, but I hate to be taken
>for a sucker, so anything at all would be great help.
>
>--Mark
>'95 J3 GLX Blk/blk
>