Automotive Manual PDF

When shopping for a new replacement radio for your vehicle, depending upon the make and model, you may quickly notice that new radios are different in size than the radio that was installed by the auto maker at the factory. What do you do?

The car audio market has taken care of this for you. A vehicle owner shopping for a new radio will have many choices to choose from such as CD players, cassette players, cost vs. performance, detachable face, as well as brand preference. Now there are choices as well the buyer will have to make regarding the size of the new radio.

To standardize the design and manufacturing of new replacement radios, car audio or more specifically car stereo manufacturers have begun to design and produce radios around the ‘DIN’ radio body style. This ‘DIN’ radio body style is rectangular (2” high x 7” wide) which can be adapted to virtually every vehicle produced today. One offshoot of this body style called the Double ‘DIN’ radio body style (4” high x 7” wide) is designed to fit certain auto makers radio dash openings which use a larger radio or a combination of radio above a pocket or tray. To understand a little more about these ‘DIN’ radio body styles we need to take a trip to the past and look at a third body style, the original car stereo body style, the “shafted” radio.

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