Re: new truck questions!

From: droo (03dakotacc4.7_4x4@comcast.net)
Date: Thu Dec 11 2003 - 19:23:15 EST


On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 08:05:18 -0500, jonathan <jonathan@crazy-train.net>
wrote:

>
> This Durango is a 2003. So I guess it will be a bit harder. I
> agree...the guy should showed her the jack, but they didn't when we
> bought
> the Dakota new either (and he showed her EVERYTHING).
>
> Hrmm...im wondering if its just easier to take it to Best Buy or
> something
> to have it installed. I really want to do it myself, but not if I have to
> take the dash apart. I know on my Cutlass Supreme, the plastic just pops
> out. IT was the same on my brothers Sundance he used to have. But, on my
> old
> Cutlass Cierea, you had to remove a bunch of screws all over the place
> (still was easy). The deck that is going in is an AWIA. Its crazy that
> there
> are like no sites that explain how to do it. I guess ill have to make my
> own!
>
> Thanks
> Jon
>
>

It shouldn't be as hard as you think. I don't know how different the
Durango dash is from the Dakota, but I have the 03 style. Just from memory
you first take off the bolster under the steering wheel. I think that's
only two screws. Then you drop the two phillips head screws out from just
above the dials. The rest are metal clips. The only tricky part is pulling
out from behind the steering wheel. Once you get it loose, you reach behind
the panel and pull some plugs off the back. I found the headlight plug a
pain to get undone so I left it in and just gently placed the dash aside so
I could access the stereo. I think it took me about a half hour to install
my stereo in my 03. I spliced all my wires before hand in the wire harness.
I you can get a harness and mounting kit from any local shop.

-- 
-Droo

http://www.grandroyal.org/dakota



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