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Old 08-23-2009, 03:04 PM   #1
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FRANKENTRUCK stereo phase II

Yo! Y'all!
WELL,...
This is gonna take some doing. Yeah, cut the dash,...been there, done that, bought the T shirt and wore it out. BUT! FRANKENTRUCKs' dash does not have a large enough area:

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to place the Crutchfield supplied trimplate without overlapping on the outside of the contour in that spot:

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the DIN sleeve just fits within the sliver trim area:

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I believe the most aesthetically pleasing solution will be to remove the surrounding silver trim ridge on the dash (to allow the trimplate to lie flush), round the upper right corner of the trimplate (and repaint it). I'm afraid that if I try to MAKE the Kenwood fit inside the silver trim without the trimplate, that it's face plate will need to fit into a cutout in the lower right corner and will look like it's crammed in there.
Any pics of DINs in this same dash? Any other ideas?
This will take just a LITTLE longer than I'd thought,...just need to do it right the first time!
Todd.
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