Hi All
Just bought a 1997 A3 1.8 with a factory installed Bose system. The car's awesome, and the Bose sounds great.
However, the HU unit is tape only, so really want to swap this out and get an MP3 CD tuner in there. I thought it would just be a case of popping in a new after market stereo, but according to a chap at Halfords, apparently not! Just in cables alone he reckoned it cost upwards of £70 to do this, which seems a little steep to me (especially as the CD unit I was looking at was £65!).
I've never swapped a stereo before, so does anyone have an experience with doing this? Any advice, part numbers, best-fitting stereos, where to buy etc would be massively appreciated!
All I want is to be able to play MP3 CDs, so I'm not concerned with buying top-range stuff, but would like something that fits in as nicely as the original tape deck (which is a Blauplunkt).
Many thanks!
Ben
Just bought a 1997 A3 1.8 with a factory installed Bose system. The car's awesome, and the Bose sounds great.
However, the HU unit is tape only, so really want to swap this out and get an MP3 CD tuner in there. I thought it would just be a case of popping in a new after market stereo, but according to a chap at Halfords, apparently not! Just in cables alone he reckoned it cost upwards of £70 to do this, which seems a little steep to me (especially as the CD unit I was looking at was £65!).
I've never swapped a stereo before, so does anyone have an experience with doing this? Any advice, part numbers, best-fitting stereos, where to buy etc would be massively appreciated!
All I want is to be able to play MP3 CDs, so I'm not concerned with buying top-range stuff, but would like something that fits in as nicely as the original tape deck (which is a Blauplunkt).
Many thanks!
Ben