bobBoles
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Has anybody done a good install in a Madza 3 just bought a 2016 model looking for any ideas as how to make clean install .........
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teufler
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go with a split head radio, mount to the dash and the radio guts under your seat. mic hanger, use velco because its hard to get a mic on the hanger sometimes when mobile. Velco works great.
If the attached is roughly what your interior looks like, check into mounting the control head where I have the arrow pointing - you never want to mount it up in the way of your view/vision when driving and, more importantly, you do not want it up where airbags would hit it and make it a flying object in the event that they went off in an accident. I can't tell from the picture but if there is a space where I have the arrow, the head of a Kenwood TM-V71A or similar radio should fit there and the body of the radio could go under the seat (passenger or perhaps the rear seat).
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bobBoles
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That space in the pic has the 2 usb plugs and also were is sdi card goes for the in car nav. system
Thans for the idea
Thans for the idea
As small as the control head of some of these radios are I'm sure you can make it work...I wouldn't think the SD card would be accessed much and maybe it could be positioned as to allow decently easy access to the USB ports, as needed. Like I said, it is kind of hard to tell in the pic but that would be the spot I would aim for and see what you could make work.
bobBoles
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Going to work on it Thursday, will see how it works out
teufler
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I would not put the radio guts in the small space, radio head would work, but I had an opening, like this in the dash of a chrysler LHS, nice opening, held disk and junk. Problem was no ventilation, so the radio , after a few transmissions, Yaesu 8900, would say "heat" an would not transmit until the radio had cooled off. Lived in Henderson, NV at the time and the space in the dash would not work, so went to split head operation, radio under the seat. Better ventilation and never saw the word "heat" appear again.
bobBoles
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Awesome - glad it fit!
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