Custom labor for CD player?????
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Custom labor for CD player?????
OK I went to best buy to look at cd players and they told me that if i bought one from them they couldnt install it for free like most cd players. they say it take $50 of custom labor charges. Have any of you with 93's or anything been told this?
93'Aerostar XLT. Intake, cherrybomb glasspack, dual 3" tip, red LED blinkers, red neons inside and out.
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Custom labor for CD player?????
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> OK I went to best buy to look at cd players and they told
>me that if i bought one from them they couldnt install it
>for free like most cd players. they say it take $50 of
>custom labor charges.
Weird.
The Ford radio removal toolset can be had for about $6. Mine is OTC No. 7575. Not needed on my '89, but needed for ('90-on ?) later Fords. On the '89, there is nothing particularly special about the mounting, AFAICT. I had the radio out to fix the all-too-common "no display" problem. Very easy to fix: remove radio, remove four screws, change the display light bulb!
As usual, easy, once you know how.
I had to buy the radio removal tool to repair a cigar lighter on a '91 Escort GT last month. It's got a fusible link built onto the back of the lighter housing, which fried because the owner plugged one of those "car vac" things in.
The local Ford dealer doesn't stock the replacement lighter housing, though it's only $7 to order. I did the solder-equivalent of putting a penny in the fusebox, told the guy what I did, and put it back together. There's a regular fuse for the circuit in the panel. A one-time-use fusible link on a cigar lighter -- what will they think of next? Breakaway doors, in case you slam one?
Regards,
Al S.
> OK I went to best buy to look at cd players and they told
>me that if i bought one from them they couldnt install it
>for free like most cd players. they say it take $50 of
>custom labor charges.
Weird.
The Ford radio removal toolset can be had for about $6. Mine is OTC No. 7575. Not needed on my '89, but needed for ('90-on ?) later Fords. On the '89, there is nothing particularly special about the mounting, AFAICT. I had the radio out to fix the all-too-common "no display" problem. Very easy to fix: remove radio, remove four screws, change the display light bulb!
As usual, easy, once you know how.
I had to buy the radio removal tool to repair a cigar lighter on a '91 Escort GT last month. It's got a fusible link built onto the back of the lighter housing, which fried because the owner plugged one of those "car vac" things in.
The local Ford dealer doesn't stock the replacement lighter housing, though it's only $7 to order. I did the solder-equivalent of putting a penny in the fusebox, told the guy what I did, and put it back together. There's a regular fuse for the circuit in the panel. A one-time-use fusible link on a cigar lighter -- what will they think of next? Breakaway doors, in case you slam one?
Regards,
Al S.
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From: sooke Canada
Custom labor for CD player?????
The cost is to rewire all your speakers, which has to be done if you have the additional control unit behind the drivers seat. It has an amp in there that the new deck will not be able to use therefore all your speakers need rewiring, $50.00 us is not bad price considering it up to 3 hr to do and here in the great white north it's up to $150 - $200 depending on were u go.
Hope this helps
:-X12
Hope this helps
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