Morning chaps.

Im now onto my next little task to sort and its the squeaking head unit in the dash

My car has a Kenwood head unit fitted but it does not have the peugeot triangular ended face plate thing fitted and it squeaks over bumps. I took the kenwood faceplate off and noticed the hole in the dash is slightly bigger than the kenwoods mounting cage

Does anyone know if i get a triangular ended standard faceplate thing will make my head unit fit better and illiminate one of the annoying squeaks as im sure most of you have non standard head units

cheers

I think these aftermaket adapter things do make it slightly tighter as they slot into the hole then the radio slots into that.

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'90 1.6 205 GTi, '98 306 GTi-6

I have a Blaupunkt unit in my car and it was no probs fitting it. The slot, the cage and and the head unit will all be compatible DIN dimensions so should be able to be made to fit properly. A filler piece from Autoleads goes between the cage and the dash, but it looks a bit nasty and relies on the cage to hold it in place so I don't think it would fix any fitting problem. Best to get the cage fitting correctly by making sure bent lugs are holding it in place or get a new cage for pennies on ebay. Is it actually a Kenwood cage? Is the had unit properly clipped into the cage? If not could be the problem.

Look carefully and work out whether it is the head unit moving in the cage, or the cage moving in the dash, pulling it out of the dash and refitting if necessary. Then go from there.

Top tip: before removing the head unit, put 2 layers of masking tape on the fascia around the head unit, as the back of the radio has sharp corners and will scratch the **** out of your fascia very easily when you are lining it up to put it back in.

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Cherry Rallye SOLD

just fit a supercharger, you wont hear the squeeks then

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andrew315rawson@live.co.uk
Moonstone phase 7 gti6
My Project thread: http://www.306gti6.com/forum/showthread.php?id=119992&page=1

She squeeks, skwarks and screeches al day long, gets on my tits

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andrew315rawson@live.co.uk
Moonstone phase 7 gti6
My Project thread: http://www.306gti6.com/forum/showthread.php?id=119992&page=1

My kenwood is the same. Rattles about all over the place. I wrapped the cage in body work tape and jammed it in there and that stopped it for a bit but problem is it soon starts to rattle again.