I Have a Question/ Idea. <this may be for the audio forumn but im looking for everyone's feedback please.

Im installing a aftermarket HU.
Now, The install kit eveyone sells is that cavalier plastic cheap trim kit.
Im sure everyone has used one and seen it many of times.
Q: Do they make a metal kit that actually looks good, something i could paint and make a nice finish on....?

I was considering sanding and using a body glaze across the Cheap-o plastic kit, then sanding, and then painting w/ enamal paint..

Any bright ideas on this project......

please no feedback with "just get a video screen blah blah..."

 

ok, show a picture of what you have, and what you want it to look like.

if you mean the single DIN opening that's left, they sell so many things to cover that up, you could just as well put 3 autometer gauges there.

 

why do you need an installation kit?..

i installed an aftermarket HU onto my 97 and didn't need a installation kit, other than an atenna adapter.

 

Pentium 4? lol. Adds 20hp

That deck looks a little big for the opening.

 

it's 1 din??

 

Hey all..
Ok i dont have the Part/Piece yet but its just a simple Plastic mounting kit for the maxima, <we use it to install the aftermarket single-din headunits.>

-you have to know what im referring too... the plastic trim part.

-Someone post they didnt use a kit...? ~seriously, does ur cd player fall out when u drive.

*NEWAYS , i was wondering if they made a METAL Trim Mounting kit...
*Obviously if i had a dbl-din or a "pentium" whatever, I wouldnt need the kit...

-post only if ur over 21 please... do we need a babysitter..

 

If we can only post if we are over 21 then you my friend must leave, your age reads 7.

The pentium 4 referance is to the emblem on his climate control.

I have never seen a metal kit myself. Im sure there is a specialty one...or you can custom make it. Ive only seen plastic.

 

Nope no metal kit. 1fstmax you prob didn't have bose from the factory.

 

i don't use a trim kit.. or i don't think..

i just screwed the h/u to the metal "holder" type thing behind the dash trim (holds the dins and trays in place)

works fine.. ive got in the bottom most din of my dash

 

yes i did.. just got that lower pocket from my other maxima..

 

I used the metra dash fittings and its black, but my woodgrain went right on top of it, i think u might be forgetting that the entire fitting is basicly hidden

 

Not everyone has access to that, this is why they need an install kit.

 

What's up with that pentium sticker? You got a carputer?

 

I didnt see that pic he had on the page until now.. u just load that..?

I think you didnt have bose either if you had that factory din hole already...

With bose i have the 2 dins to fill... i hate those cheap looking kits to fill the spot so i guess ill fabricate my own trim pieces... its winter, i got time.

Anyone know of a user on here that has an awesome 1-din radio with something in the X-tra space... i was thinking guages but im not throwin down $$ on a volt meter guage or something.. Ive got 2 already that dont do anything great...

Oh well,, thanks all for you help.

 

So the KIT that i would buy will fit behind the whole front panel ur sayin...

Im following what ur saying i just usually see the trim of the kit sticking out around it... then again im thinkin of a honda trim kit..
I guess ive just never really seen a kit in someones car b/c no one has close pics of there HU unless its a screen there.. hmmm

thansk all.

 

Ill take a pic of mine tomrrow, trust me, its all hidden

 

I bought the pocket to fill in the bottom DIN from circuit city. You can find that stuff everywhere. BobJohnson, are you referring to the plastic trim that surrounds the radio's front panel (face)? That usually comes with the headunit right out of the box. Also, my car came with bose and I never needed any installation kit. Headunits come out with the proper mounting holes so that it can be mounted w/o requiring a kit. No mounting kit = stock look.