
After checking which CD changer port it had this is what I bought http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271461576521? ... 1439.l2649 along with this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261215168062? ... 1439.l2649 because, during my investermagations I found that I couldn't just unplug the existing connector from the CD changer port as half the dash would go dead. I could've just spliced it I guess but I couldn't be asked to play about with the fiddly little wires they use on Japanese cars - why use a big wire when you can get away with one as thin as a hair?


The unit is kind of the size of a fag packet, about a centimetre wider, thinner, the same length plus the connector (which looks suspiciously like a D-sub)
First carefully remove the stereo:

Locate the CD changer port & unplug the existing connector:

Plug in the spice, then the existing connector & Yatour lead:

And shove it all roughly behind the dash.
Fire it up:

Well bugger me, it works!

Where to mount it? Within the half a meter of the cable I couldn't find a convenient place to stick it, it's all curves and weird shapes in the yoyo. I did think of sticking it to the side of the centre console but I thought it might get in the way, or in the cubby hole under the steering column but I could imagine it falling out on my feet all the time. In the end I sacrificed the ask tray:

Ooops, it's upside-down. Oh dear, how sad, never mind. While I had that panel out I noticed that both the ashtray and fag lighter have bulbs but, like most of the dash, they've blown and aren't replaceable without buying the whole unit, stuff that. I also packed a load of foam behind the panel to stop it vibrating all the time.
Incidentally, owing to most of the screws for the stereo being behind the level of the dash there's endless scope for dropping them behind the dash - clink, clunk, bugger


This is just for Welly because he wanted a pic of the sloppy repair I did on the leather steering wheel:
