760 two-piece to one-piece stereo change

[blurp]

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

 

[James Sweet]

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.

 

[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.

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

 

[James Sweet]

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.