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FYI if anyone has a radio with broken clips, it is possible to remove.

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Old 12-29-2008, 10:29 AM
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Default FYI if anyone has a radio with broken clips, it is possible to remove.

I ended up removing the lower dash and glove box, and then used a pry bar to force it out. My headunit no longer works, although I'm not sure if it was from needing to force it out or not.

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Default Re: FYI if anyone has a radio with broken clips, it is possible to remove.

So, let me get this straight...the head unit was broken before you took it out...then you disassembled the lower dash in order to pry it out. Did you install a new one yet? My clips are broken too, but the radio works fine, I would like to get it out and remove the broken clips entirely if that's possible so I can access it whenever I want, but I definately don't want to break it.
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Default If you remove all the clips, then nothing is going to be really holding it into the dash.

My radio was working, during the process of removing it, the 7.5A fuse on the back blew. I replaced the fuse and the unit no longer turned on. I don't honestly know what actually killed the unit though, I'm not sure I would be prying it out if I wasn't planning on replacing it.
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Default Re: If you remove all the clips, then nothing is going to be really holding it into the dash.

Yeah I definately don't want that. And I know that without the clips, there would be nothing holding it in...but it fits in there pretty tight, so I don't think it would move around much at all...and i'd rather be able to access it whenever I need to, instead of never.
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