Radio brackets

Post by **S10NPH** » 01 Nov 2008 05:50 pm

I have just bought a full-size (i.e. it fills the radio gap in the dashboard fully) volvo radio for my 340. I have just been trying to fit it, and I am stumped by two brackets that are inside the hole, seemingly to cradle a thinner (more modern) radio unit. I cannot for the life of me get these off, or work out how to do so. They appear to be screwed in place from the engine side of the dashboard moulding, and there is no way to get at them from inside the radio hole. Does anyone know (short of forcing them off with a screwdriver) how on Earth to get these bloody things off!!!!!

Thanks!

Sion

Post by **jarlidge** » 01 Nov 2008 05:57 pm

hi

you can remove them easly by unscrewing them.

there is just a screw in each bracket. then they will come out.

cheers

jeff

Post by **J340GLT** » 01 Nov 2008 06:20 pm

Yeh there are screw holding them mate just use a stumpy phillips screwdriver to undo them.

If you're not having joy that way then just bend them up and down a few times and they will break off!!!

Regards

Jay

Post by **S10NPH** » 01 Nov 2008 07:28 pm

No - the screws aren't accessible from the hole in the dashboard - the screw heads are around the side, and aren't accesisble. Maybe that's just not normal, and they have been screwed in backwards?

Basically, if the answer is it should be easy, then my car is just wrong, and I will have to break them!!

Post by **J340GLT** » 01 Nov 2008 08:00 pm

You may be right mate, on the car im breaking it all easy access as the dash has been removed!! Just break them off dude!!

Post by **kaos** » 01 Nov 2008 09:42 pm

glove box out and unscrew the passenger side. dash cluster out unscrew drivers side.

piece of pie!

Post by **S10NPH** » 02 Nov 2008 07:08 pm

kaos wrote:glove box out and unscrew the passenger side. dash cluster out unscrew drivers side.

piece of pie!

Lol - I really don't think I'll be dismantling my dashboard just to fit a radio!

I prised them off with a screwdriver in the end. Wonder why my car was put together backwards...!

On a related, but different note, does anyone know how the memory buttons work on a CR107 radio? Well at least I presume that they are memory buttons - there are 3 marked U and they each go to a different fixed place on the FM radio band.

Post by **trabitom99** » 02 Nov 2008 08:26 pm

S10NPH wrote:On a related, but different note, does anyone know how the memory buttons work on a CR107 radio? Well at least I presume that they are memory buttons - there are 3 marked U and they each go to a different fixed place on the FM radio band.

If they work in a similar way as the Becker radio in my '75 Merc then that would be as follows:

#1 tune to the radio station of your choice
#2 pull the U button out
#3 push the U button back in - and the station is "saved".

Tom

Post by **kaos** » 02 Nov 2008 10:26 pm

S10NPH wrote:
kaos wrote:glove box out and unscrew the passenger side. dash cluster out unscrew drivers side.

piece of pie!
Lol - I really don't think I'll be dismantling my dashboard just to fit a radio!

I prised them off with a screwdriver in the end. Wonder why my car was put together backwards...!

On a related, but different note, does anyone know how the memory buttons work on a CR107 radio? Well at least I presume that they are memory buttons - there are 3 marked U and they each go to a different fixed place on the FM radio band.

its more anti theft.

plus you have the 2 pin slots on the front of some.