SOUNDS

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I’ve generally got a stash of spare radios and planned to fit a nice CD unit, until I discovered that there’s very little space in the T25 dashboard for a modern stereo. The heater duct and control cables massively restrict the space.

2

The solution was a cheap ‘deckless’ unit bought online which plays music from USB/Bluetooth/memory card plus FM radio but having no CD or tape mechanism is much smaller than most units.

3

Here you can see just how much shorter it is than the modern head unit I’d planned to fit and in fact it’s slightly shorter than the old analogue Pioneer.

4

The hopeless wiring needed tidying up but once I’d fished the speaker wires out from behind the dash and found a permanent live, ignition live and earth, I wired a pair of ISO plugs to the van and slotted the unit in. For less than 20 quid I was impressed at the sound quality and it already looks so much neater in there.