There were only 2 screws, in this picture you can see the leftmost one. The right screw is just out of the frame to the right. See how dirty the underside is?! That’s a 3rd hand car for you…plus it’s 12 years old. So those 2 screws will allow you to take that whole upper plate off. You need to take out the knobs on your heat controls. Also note that you will need to disconnect the clock, the defrost button, and the hazard lights button.
This is what it looks like with the plate off, and the deck still intact. Note the 3 plugs to the right, these are the for the clock, the defrost button, and the hazard lights. The silver piece in the bottom half of the picture is the receiver for the heat controls. The white plastic box at the top in the back is actually the duct from your A/C and heater. After you get to this step, you need to take the deck out. On this model, there are 4 screws, 2 on the left and 2 on the right as shown below.
After you undo these screws, you can now take out the deck. It’s pretty easy it just slides out (that’s what she said). After it is out, you need to disconnect the cables in the back. The one with all the wires just snaps out – these wires include the power, the ground, and the speakers. Also note the thicker black cord to the right; this is the antenna cable. It’s a simple male jack, just pull it out of the female jack (that’s what she said again), and the whole assembly should come out.
This is also the point where if your wife is like mine, she will come up and ask you if you took the CD out. It’s interesting how they always nag you about the most rudimentary simple and obvious things. But if you are like me, and you DIDN’T take out the CD, this is the point where you hand her the screw-driver, mumble something about it was broken and wouldn’t turn on, and tell her she needs to break into it to get her CD (this is a Third Day CD which you will see later). Getting back on track now, in the back you will notice another connector. That needs to be disconnected as well, if you pull on the now exposed end (do I need to say that’s what she said), you will not expose 2 additional connectors that need to be pulled out and tossed aside as well. You will now take your new deck, which is shown in the picture below. It comes with the stock connector which you need to attach to the back of the deck. After this is connected you need to have a Y connector that you hook up. This will split into 2 plugs which will connect to the cords that you just pulled out behind the dashboard. The connectors I had needed to be spliced together – it’s really simple, just match up the same colored wires. Whatever the unused wires are, cover them up with tape to avoid any potential shorts. Below is the picture of everything spliced together.
Now you just need to install 2 mounting brackets to your new deck and slide it in the slot where the old one was. Simply screw the brackets in, just like they were before. Look below for further clarification.
Once everything is secured and tight (I don’t need to say it anymore), put the trim plate back on, not forgetting to attach the cords for the clock, defrost button, and the hazard lights button. Install the heat knobs again, clean everything up, and your set. Note the now recovered Third Day CD that is now installed in the newly working audio deck that displays the information on the CD. This was really simple – it took me longer to pick out the deck (note how I had to shop for the pink buttons…anything for my wife), and get the accessories and wait for a sales associate to get the deck from behind the counter, than it did to install which was about 30 minutes.
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