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Car Forum / Australian Car Forums / 4x4 Cars (Australian group) / June 2007UHF Radio and CD\MP3 tuners around Brisbane.
Can anyone recommend somewhere around Brisbane than can supply and fit a UHF Radio, antenna and a CD\MP3 tuner (and offer good advice on the UHF radio and antenna, as I know nothing). Ideally I would like them to replace the standard double din CD/tape deck in my landcruiser. Southside would be perfect. Cheers. > Can anyone recommend somewhere around Brisbane than can supply and fit a > UHF Radio, antenna and a CD\MP3 tuner (and offer good advice on the UHF [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Cheers. Either take it to a car audio shop like Northfeilds or Gold Coast Car sound. Or take the car in for Audio at a car audio shop and ythe UHF at ARBs or the like. Where are you exactly? > > Can anyone recommend somewhere around Brisbane than can supply and fit a > > UHF Radio, antenna and a CD\MP3 tuner (and offer good advice on the UHF [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Where are you exactly? I'm in the Logan City area. I'd rather go to one place and have them do both at once. I didn't know Gold Coast Car Sound did UHF stuff, so I'll give them a visit. Thanks for the tip. >> > Can anyone recommend somewhere around Brisbane than can supply and fit >> > a [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Thanks for the tip. They dont specialise in them. They are so easy to install its not funny, Ive done heaps of them when I worked in the audio industry. As the shop I wokred at specialised in custom fittment we would fit anything to anything. What are you fitting into which vehicle? Scotty > They dont specialise in them. They are so easy to install its not funny, Ive > done heaps of them when I worked in the audio industry. As the shop I wokred > at specialised in custom fittment we would fit anything to anything. > > What are you fitting into which vehicle? For such a small job, just buy the uhf & cd you like best and hire an auto electrician for half an hour. -mark >> They dont specialise in them. They are so easy to install its not funny, > Ive [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > -mark Even the worlds best Auto sparky wouldnt be able to do that in a 1/2 hour. Well not properly anyway. The OP hasnt stated what vehicle yet, if we know we can advise with a bit more accuracy. > >> They dont specialise in them. They are so easy to install its not funny, > > Ive [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > The OP hasnt stated what vehicle yet, if we know we can advise with a bit > more accuracy. The car is a 1998 100 series Landcruiser. I have a Kenwood CD\MP3 player I rescued from my old 4Runner. I managed to fit that into the 4Runner myself no worries. I may buy a new CD unit with iPod or USB connections, and give the Kenwood to the wife for her birthday ;-) The problem with the Landcruiser is the standard set up is a double din size. And I'd like to replace it with a single din CD unit and a UHF radio, fitting them both in the same hole. While the wiring up may be straight forward, I have no idea how to fit them both neatly in the hole left by the standard unit, if I can even work out how to get it out. Cheers. >> >> They dont specialise in them. They are so easy to install its not >> >> funny, [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > Cheers. Hmm, cant think back that far as to how to get it out without seeing it. Fitment depends entirely on the UHF unit. The double Din Cruiser unit should come out with relitive ease. and if its a stock Toyota unit the old one should have decent mounting brakets that have holes that perfectly match 90% of head units available. The issue will only be the UHF, most are slightly narrower than a DIN mount radio and will require a bit of custom work. Id offer to do the job for you seeing as you dont know me from a bar O soap....... From my experience the COAX should come with your UHF aerial kit and being a Toyota theres always plenty of grommets you can use to thread the COAX through the fire wall. I'd recommend that you solder your earth crimps on to both the UHF and CD player as the Crusiers have been known to have earth loops (of sorts) creatign a bit of interference on the UHF and AM (Not that anyone actually listens to AM anymore) on the CD/Tuner. Post some pics if ya can. Being a Toyota there are always going to be plenty of screws hiding to pull stuff apart. While the bits are out clean all the plastic with a decent plastic cleaner to help prevent squeaks and rattles. >>>>>They dont specialise in them. They are so easy to install its not >>>>>funny, [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > offer to do the job for you seeing as you dont know me from a bar O > soap....... the 100 series centre dash panel is just clipped in no screws to hold it place, the lower plastic cover I think needs to be removed first though, and all you do is use a blade of ome sort to pop the whole centre panel out the radio has just 4 screws holding it in place, undo them and the radio should just about fall out, remove the old stereo and wire up the new one(always solder and heat shrink the wires) mount the new stereo and trial fit the panel, once you have it into the correct position then mount the CB the problem is that the way the Landcruiser centre panel is formed, the normal plastic facia trim that comes with aftermarket stereos does not really fit and with out it there is a gap around the radio I have an Alinco DX70TH HF radio fitted below my stereo but that needed a bit of surgury to the surround to get it to fit and it does look a bit daggy I must get you to look at it some time Scotty ,see what I can do to fix it > From my experience the COAX should come with your UHF aerial kit and being a > Toyota theres always plenty of grommets you can use to thread the COAX [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > plastic with > a decent plastic cleaner to help prevent squeaks and rattles. This is what mine looks like that whole black centre panel just pops out, no screws at all, well none that I can remember http://members.optusnet.com.au/~kevcat/pics/toyota-shack1.jpg http://members.optusnet.com.au/~kevcat/pics/toyota-shack2.jpg Kev >>>The car is a 1998 100 series Landcruiser. I have a Kenwood CD\MP3 player >>>I rescued from my old 4Runner. I managed to fit that into the 4Runner [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >>> >>>Cheers. > This is what mine looks like > that whole black centre panel just pops out, no screws at all, well none [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Kev Isnt there two screws under the ash tray front? Geeze , been a long time since I did one of them. From memory I havnt had to cut the edges like you did Kev, could be wrong here of course but usually Toyotas dont need modifications such as that. Hmmmm, got me thinking now. Yeah, as far as trim goes, Kev your CD unit should have the surround to cover the gaps at the sides. You may have to bring the Head Unit forward to clip it on though. The HF Unit would need a custom surround to get it looking shmick. I'll have a lot at a work mates unit as his is still stock and let ya know. >>>>The car is a 1998 100 series Landcruiser. I have a Kenwood CD\MP3 player >>>>I rescued from my old 4Runner. I managed to fit that into the 4Runner [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > I'll have a lot at a work mates unit as his is still stock and let ya know. The head of the HF is a smidgen bigger than DIN size, the radio is DIN but the head is about an inch deep so would look really wrong fitted out that far, it just sits jammed between the radio and the lower part of the recess, nothing holding it in but it has never moved even after many very nasty 4x4 trips the problem with the stereo surround is that the top part of the dash comes out right above it and the radio would have to be moved out about 1/2 inch, again that would look like crap the cut edge is a bit bigger than it needs to be because I was a bit rough cutting it and ended up taking more than was needed to make it look a bit neater, still looks like sh.t, I might buy another centre panel and re do it I think there are a couple of screws under each side of the lower ashtray panel which I had to remove to do some wire runs but I'm sure the main panel has no screws as I had it out many times fitting the radios Kev Kev >>>>They dont specialise in them. They are so easy to install its not funny, >>> [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > them both neatly in the hole left by the standard unit, if I can even > work out how to get it out. DO NOT BUY A UNIDEN UHF get at least a GME the Icom 400Pro is ok but GME UHF TX4400 should be your first choice Kev > DO NOT BUY A UNIDEN UHF > get at least a GME > the Icom 400Pro is ok > but GME UHF TX4400 should be your first choice > > Kev (Looks at newly acquired used Uniden UH077 on the floor that just arrived in the post) *Now* you tell me!!!! er... why? Moike >> DO NOT BUY A UNIDEN UHF >> get at least a GME [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Moike The old 077 may not be too bad so don't get too down hearted the new generation Unidens are absolute sh.t crap TX audio and sh.t RX selectivity the TX audio is usually very muffled and pick up lots of road noise due to the condensor mic insert and on RX they pick up lots of out of band crud in high RF areas(anywhere near any hill or building with a TX site) the Icom 400Pro was hailed as the bees knees when they first appeared commercial quality we were told and the ability to TX at 25 watts, that's where the limitations were discovered, they quickly deteriorate at high power, along with a batch of bad radios from Icom early on they quickly got themselves a bad rap the only problem I have had with any of the later GMEs are the interference from the cable TV cables on channel 14 other than that they are good on TX and RX of course if you want real top radios you'd get a commercial radio Tait 2000 series are quite good but waaaaaayyyy overpriced I prefer the Kenwood TK860G Kev >The old 077 may not be too bad so don't get too down hearted >the new generation Unidens are absolute sh.t my old Uniden was that sh.t I threw it in the bin. >> The old 077 may not be too bad so don't get too down hearted >> the new generation Unidens are absolute sh.t > > my old Uniden was that sh.t I threw it in the bin. Oh, Good. On that basis I expect to have a long and happy association with mine. Moike ;) >> They dont specialise in them. They are so easy to install its not funny, > Ive [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > -mark Olbis fitting shop on Ipswitch Rd > Can anyone recommend somewhere around Brisbane than can supply and fit a > UHF Radio, antenna and a CD\MP3 tuner (and offer good advice on the UHF [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Cheers. Thanks for the info everyone, I'll have a poke around and see how I get on. Cheers. |
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