760 two-piece to one-piece stereo change

Dec 06, 2004 3 Replies

Hi all,



I'm looking to put a CD-Receiver unit into my 760 but the existing system occupies two slots (top for Receiver, bottom for Cassette). Since anything I get will occupy only one slot, where can I find a cover for the other slot? The dealership came up empty and I don't even know what the part would be called to try Google a solution. Crutchfield came up empty too.



Has anyone ever upgraded their 760 stereo and solved this problem? I know I could just leave the dead cassette player in there but it looks crappy... do I have an alternative?



Thanks, blurp



What year is the car? In the earlier ones anyway (and I would assume later cars are similar) there's a small storage pocket that goes where the lower unit would otherwise mount, you should be able to find that part in a scrapyard.

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 21:23:53 GMT, the illustrious "James Sweet" favored us with the following prose:

It's a 1988 760GLE. Below the cassette deck there is a slot occupied by the cigrette lighter leaving a storage pocket about 2/3 the size of the whole slot. A full-sized storage pocket would be ideal but I don't know enough about the interchangeability of parts/trim across the range of 7xx/9xx cars.

Thanks, blurp

That sounds the same as my '87 740, the factory radio was one piece but taller than a standard DIN unit. I got a mounting kit from Crutchfield that came with a trim ring to mount a standard CD player in the dash, it came out looking pretty clean.

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