I really hate Bmw headunit. It should be called BMW crap cd. Somebody from Bmw should be in jail for installing that headunits in bmws.
I bought pioneer 3300 bt 4 years ago and I love it. It has got everything you need for reasonable price. I had it 4 years in my Toyota Corolla.
Now I want it in my Bmw, but here is one big problem. You can only have 1 din radio in E83. I don’t know what bmw were thinking. And 1 din bmw business cd is misery business!!! I fuckin hate it, I’d love to smashed it with hammer. Every time I turn on my car I must take deeep deeep breath and hide all my hammers!
I wanted to sell the car just because of a shitty 1 din radio.
Then I get one idea. If I can remove top drawer from dash which is useless I can maybe install my pioneer.
Here is how I tested if it would fit in the hole:
It is tight, but it would fit. MAybe I won’t sell a car 🙂 So I bought some fiberglass, some tape and started working.
First I created mold from top drawer:
Then I covered mold with tape and sprayed it with colour and made base fascia for my headunit:
Then cut it to the right size for headunit to fit in and made front fascia from wood.
That is it for now, I will post more pics in part 2.
Part 2: