Rodeo Radio Swap

I wish I still had a cassette player for all my Kenny Rogers, John Williamson and Abba stuff!

nope.
Sorry, dont mean to be the bearer of bad news but I did it a couple of years ago.
We put a VDO MP3 player in ours ( and I wouldnt recommend it as a brand, the antishock is almost non existent , am about to replace this unit and make sure the new one has a USB input or at least a aux in so we can listen to music from an mp3 player and not have to worry about disk jumping on corrogated roads) and had to pull the dash out, trim up the din hole slightly with a power file etc.

Not too painful a job, but the dash did have to come out.
Just undo all the screws ( there are some in the ashtray as well from memory ).
A small amount of prying is necessary, but it will then come out.

I ran a set of RCA leads and an amp power relay ( antenna power ) lead at the same time as we are going to fit an amp and rear speakers soon.
JB HiFI have speaker pods that take 6 inch drivers ( they have some for splits with a seperate tweeter as well ) for $159. These allow deeper magnet rear speakers than you would otherwise be able to fit in the rear doors.

Cheers,

Dale

Went through the exercise today with my work car - 2002 Rodeo. After looking at it for half an hour, I gave up and got a professional installer to do it. Charged me $90, including supplying all the wiring, only tokk 45 minutes, and no headache for me.
Sorry couldn't help much, but they did remove the front of the dash - don't know if it was necessary, but I did see them do that.

I was close to getting it done by the dealer - $80 at Autobarn - but as my son had installed his own in his old skippy wagon last month I couldn't be outdone. It's probably 10 minutes to pull out the dash once you know where to go.
Then it depends on whether the mounts on the new unit match the Rodeo fittings. I was lucky. Then to play trial and error with the wiring to see which are the R and L speakers etc as the colours are different.

There have been a few posts about this lately.

You can't beat the USB/SD Card/CD stereos the guy in Melbourne on Ebay is selling - I see the new one does DVD too. (Why do the new models always come out after I buy one...)

Mine was $130 with postage and I'm wrapped. 20 albums on a 1Gig USB stick and another 20 on a 1Gig SD card. Threw all the burnt (backups of the ones at home) CD's I used to carry in the bin.

Hit shuffle and you have a 20 disk "stacker" - it's awesome. No skip problems ever again.

The only thing I can't work out is what they bothered putting a CD slot in it for cos I'll probably never use it.

Dave