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I guessed that there might be some extra space back behind that cubby, and was right. (tons of trim has to come off to get center screen trim out though)
Cut out back of that cubby.
4 screws on bottom of unit have to come out.
and front fascia can carefully be pried out.
You can now move "guts" of CD player over, one way or the other, and tap side of plastic case.
Used some angle brackets I had lying around to mount it.
All mounted up. About as far as I got (I did permanently mount the digital voltmeter to the left there, I have tied into my trailer brake signal wire).
Boomers?
That fancy new tech came out during the GenX age.
The Beatles didnt have a new CD.
When the CD player became common place in cars in the early 90s, it coincided with the peak of the Baby Boomers' purchasing power. When the Beatles were new, the boomers were still just driving in their hand-me-down domestic cars and VW beetles to be of any concern to the car makers.
When the CD player became common place in cars in the early 90s, it coincided with the peak of the Baby Boomers' purchasing power. When the Beatles were new, the boomers were still just driving in their hand-me-down domestic cars and VW beetles to be of any concern to the car makers.
I can see it kind of that way maybe. I was raised by a Boomer. A CD is not something most folks would say is a Boomer thing.
CLark Griswold and Herb Tarlek are the quintessential Boomers.
Funny I was busting on my Dad today about him smoking Winstons, Mom and her Salam menthol smoking in a car, letting me freely unbuckled crawl around the back windows of a 71 Impala with a 396 BB hauling a 20 foot 1963 wing Shasta. Good times
What year is this truck? My 2016 has a builtin cd player from the factory? Or just stream from your phone via your favorite music app?
I guess I don't understand, but maybe I am missing something.
They dropped the CD player in SuperDuty in 2018, I think. I was bummed I couldn't get one in my '22. Lots of CD's I can't use, had to burn them to USB stick, but it ain't the same.
OP, I would paint the face plate Satin Black, but looks like a good mod. ..........hmm..... wonder if the factory CD player from an older F150/250 could be adapted to our trucks that don't have them................
Not a boomer, but that's a great mod! I went with an aftermarket head unit to get my CD player back (and other options). I can play DVD's too.
You can't get better sound quality than a CD in a vehicle...MP3/USB/Bluetooth sound quality sucks..
192kbps is similar to CD quality for an MP3 but I have about 85k MP3s that I ripped from CDs over 10 years ago and I ripped them all at 320kbps. The file size is about double (9-10MB for a 4 minute MP3) but the sound quality playing through the truck's Bluetooth off my phone sounds as good or clearer than from a CD.
I still have the physical CDs but more for the event that something happens to my MP3s which are on 2 hard drives a phone and a computer. It is just too cumbersome having CD booklets with 100 CDs in them floating around the cab of the truck.
