I just bought a new 2005 S2K and had a stereo shop pull all of the electronics from my old 2000 S2K and install them in the new ride. A problem arose with the deck. It does not sit far enough back for the stereo door to close. The only way is to push kind of hard on the left side of the door (not smooth) which also pushes in the source button, which is ridiculous, so I always leave the door open. This stereo fit great in my '00 but the installer said that the '05 had less room and the stereo needed to stick out more because of the design. I thought they were feeding me a line of so I made another guy (at the same shop though) look at it and he agreed. Are these guys amateurs or is this true of the '05? If so, not cool, but I guess I'll live. Thanks for any advice.

 

Assuming you don't have some sort of freakishly long head unit....

My guess would be lazy installers. But mine's an 03 so I can't say for sure.

 

i fit an alpine 9855 in my 05. no space issues.. BUT it was a tight fit, mainly due to the harness in the rear.

 

nothing changed between the 00 & 05 with regards to the space behind the radio

your installed doesn't have a clue what he's talking about

 

I swapped the stereo out in my 01 and just did the same in my 05 (but not the same HU) and it seems exactly the same to me. It is a pain in the behind to get it to go back all the way but that is due to the cable, connectors, and wires on the HU the HU itself should fit just fine.

I think you are right to call "BS" on this - but first tell us what HU you are using just in case it is some odd size or something.....

Dennis

 

Here is the link to the head unit. It doesn't seem to be strangely large or anything as far as I'm concerned. I may have to go for a 2nd opinion so knowing whether or not there is a size difference from '00 to '05 would give me some ammo.


Clarion



Thanks.

 

The specs on yours say 7" x 2" x 6 1/8" deep. My Pio is shown as 7" x 2" x 6 1/2" deep and add an extra 1/2" for the "nose". Mine fits - sounds like yours should too.

Dennis

 

They bunched up the wiring... grab a screwdriver and PM me and I'll give you my number and I'll walk you through how to fix it yourself... gosh you want something done right you still gotta do it yourself

 

give John a call. it's pretty easy to fix. you'll just need a medium sized phillips head to do it.

it is pretty tight back up in there once you start stacking multiple RCA's, harnesses, etc.

 

w/John....bunched up wires can push the unit out a bit... Mine was doing something similar, it was the grounding wire that needed to be moved. Should fit fine.

John