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Page 2 Copyright © 2005 - ASR Electronics. All rights reserved. The writer assumes no responsibility whatsoever for any damage of any kind suffered as a result of attempting this modification. Also be aware that any sub-assembly that has been modified will no longer be covered by the manufacturers w...
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Page 3 Copyright © 2005 - ASR Electronics. All rights reserved. the front, with a few extra centimetres (the holes are drilled from the back of the cradle’s rear panel), and wide enough to provide stable support for the cradle. Solder Wick (de-soldering braid) – Braided copper strands a few mm wide ...
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Page 4 Copyright © 2005 - ASR Electronics. All rights reserved. Getting on with it: OK, enough of the preamble - Let’s make a start. The very first thing to be done is to remove the head unit. Grab your “special extraction tools” and head out to the car. Insert the wires into the holes on either sid...
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Page 5 Copyright © 2005 - ASR Electronics. All rights reserved. The following step is only required in the case of single disc player versions. If you have the six-stack unit, skip to the next section. Single disc player units vary slightly in the stripdown procedure. Begin by removing the top cover...
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Page 6 Copyright © 2005 - ASR Electronics. All rights reserved. The photo on the left shows the locking connector used for the six-stack CD player connection. (with the ribbon cable removed) The brown coloured part of this connector slides left or right to locked/unlocked positions respectively. Mov...
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Page 7 Copyright © 2005 - ASR Electronics. All rights reserved. have a close look at the “step“ on top, there’s a small raised section a couple of millimetres wide – make sure the socket isn’t sitting up on that, but is pushed back against the edge of that step. Apply an appropriately sized fold-bac...
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Page 8 Copyright © 2005 - ASR Electronics. All rights reserved. NOTE: Just about all the electrical connectors have a release tab on them. DON’T just yank on the wires, you need to press the lock tab before the connector will pull out. Once the electricals are unhooked, the centre panel can be lifte...
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Page 9 Copyright © 2005 - ASR Electronics. All rights reserved. Now remove the two screws holding the tabs on the cradle metalwork at the bottom, and a single screw from the bottom centre of the back of the cradle. (Don’t remove the single screw in the centre at the front, that’s holding the storage...
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Page 10 Copyright © 2005 - ASR Electronics. All rights reserved. Now is a perfect time to cut off the “ears” on the top of the harness connector. They seem to serve no useful purpose, and in fact get in the way of the pin assembly you’re going to mount there. Cut them off flush with the top of the c...
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Page 16 Copyright © 2005 - ASR Electronics. All rights reserved. Finalising the work to the head unit: OK, at this point the PCB(s) should be mounted in the base unit with hot-melt, and all the connections between the base unit PCB and the modification PCB should be done, we now need to insert the s...