Originally Posted by
RobertH
What if I can't get my radio out? It releases on the left side, but not the right. I tried lots of combinations to try and pry it out with a scraper bent at 45 degrees at the tip, and still no luck.
Anyone had this happen before? Any tricks up your sleeve? I could not find anyway to get up under the dash and reach up in that area either.
Yep.... Buy the $5 tool at your local parts store.
I am handy with tools and built the ones suggested numerous times throughout the internet. I finally bought the $5 tool. Radio came out.
Then I found out that the home made tools do not have the detents like the $5 ones, they go in too far, they bend the latches making removal more difficult. If not impossible without breaking things.
The $5 tool is cheap insurance against having to replace broken parts and saves a lot of frustration.
Note, when you get the radio out there are two 7mm bolts just inside, at the top of the opening. Then the dash comes off with a pull.
There are some decent photos in this, or another thread here.
Good luck.