"Palindrome" wrote in message
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Matt wrote:
I have recently got a 1996 405 GLX Auto Estate and I wanted to replace
the stereo. I worked out how to remove the stereo from this excellent
site http://www.carstereohelp.org/stereor...ot405UKStr.htm

However, the radio only comes out about half way and then no more. At
this point, the power goes off, so I would image the wires are being
pulled tight/out. No matter how hard I pull on the unit (and I mean
hard), it will not come out. Does anyone have any ideas how to remove
it?


I don't have experience with this car - this is based on a Xantia...

It does sound like you have successfully got the radio past the securing
clips - but have run out of slack on the cables. As the cable plugs have
retention clips, pulling harder isn't going to help.

So, any way of getting a hand in behind it? My first thought would be to
see if I could remove the lighter panel. It will probably only have a
single connector going to the lighter and will thus disconnect quite
easily. The space it gave access to on the Xantia was surprisingly large -
with a little bit of plastic removal, enough room to hold another ISO
unit. In my case, a pop-out monitor which I had connected to a computer
doing GPS and AV serving under the back seat..

However, the heater and ventilation control panel looks a better bet. It
may come out enough to get a hand in without disconnecting the Bowden
cables going to the various louvres and valves. On a Xantia, disconnecting
and reconnecting them was pretty straightforward.

Removing one or both of the above may give more slack in the cable or give
enough to now reach the cable.

Also, a long shot, a previous owner had taped a bit of paper with the
radio code inside the hole..

Hope that helps a bit...
I don't have the security code, so now if I push it back in, I can't
get it to work anyway. So I'm now wishing I hadn't touched it!


BTDTGTTS. So yo have my sympathies. It may be that the heater had a
problem in the past, the heater control panel was removed but trapped the
radio cables when put back. So simply pulling that panel forward may free
up the cables..

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Sue


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