Jammed Tape

[Monkey Shuffle]

I recently got in to my yaris as per usual, put in a tape as per usual then it started fast fowarding and goin mental so tried to eject it and it wouldn't! Its been a week, its been serviced and its still there. The garage said it would cost £700 for a new stereo and they couldn't get it out!

What do i do? I think i have three options,

try my hardest to get it out myself?

Wire in a new stereo? ( I'd love to but feel unconfident)

Get a new £700 stereo?

Its my parents car and I'm 18, so they're dodgey about 1 and 2, as they could go wrong? and 3 for obvious reasons!

Please Help Me

Dave

[Ryan1985]

Wotever u do do not pay £700 4 a new stereo! If its still in warranty I would take it down 2 Toyota and explain wot has happened and they might fix it 4 u!

Failing that whip it out urself and bang in a new head unit! :D

Cheers

[T V O R]

£700?

That's a lot...

[supafly]

i'd say forget the crappy cassette player and put in a new head unit. Its pretty easily done, i did it and im the same age as you, just follow the instructions in the audio/video section.

However, when you plan to sell the car and return it standard, you might need to get the cassette player fixed.

Heres mine:

B)

[Ryan1985]

Although I didn't fit mine myself I can't c it being that hard! Here's mine btw:

Cheers

[Monkey Shuffle]

I'm thinking that i will put in a new head unit, now I've got two problems, 1. perswading my Dad its all gonna be ok and 2. I need at HU thats gonna cause me as few problems as possible, there's alot of posts with people having problems and stuff. Nothing fancy just CD/Radio good setup.

Cheers for all your posts

[Ryan1985]

U can pick my head unit up 4 £120 and it plays MP3 Cd's 2! Let ur dad have a look at the walk thru instructions and he mite even help u! If it all goes wrong which is unlikely u can always take it 2 ur nearest audio place!

Cheers

[jaxx]

£700! for a new HU! that is sick! you should have laughed at who told you that and told them to get F*******D!

the HU IS under warrenty and the must replace it if need be! go and kick off at them big style mate if you dont want to replace the HU until they sort it for you!

(sorry for the little rant there :P )

alternatively you can pick up a corking MP3 headunit like Alpine for no more than £300, its easy to do, and will drop straight in if its a modern unit and if you use the autoleads adaptor, we have three excellent write ups on how to replace your headunit and itll be a darn site better than the cheap crap that is there as standard!

if you dont want to spend that much then its easy to pick up a nice unit for roughly 150 nicker as ryan said

damn for £700 you can get a very nice Alpine flip out 6.5inch monitor and a 6 disc mp3 changer!!

what would you choose!

[breezer]

and if you dont wana smash it to pieces or buy a new head unit, you could buy a 2nd hand tape deck off eBay! a few of them have been on b4, so hava check..

actually al hava butchers now!

[jaxx]

i noticed a yaris CD deck went for over a ton!

time i got that facia adaptor me finks

[breezer]

lol!

but monkey, keep an eye out on eBay for one

[Moffmo]

This should remove any doubts monkey

The tutorials in the workshop only work on phase 1, but on the phase 2 the layout of the dash is very different, for example the top half of the dash is actually attached to the speedometer bay...

So what you need to do is firstly is pull off the Speedometer by gripping sides and pull, quite tricky, but dont worry it will come out eventually...

This is why its different in phase two, in phase one you can ignore the steps involving taking the speedomter out.

After doing this, again for phase 2 only, you have you unscrew the screw holding dash to the dash lol...as shown here by the arrow and circle :)

After this you need to take heater knobs off and unscrew the screws as shown in the pic. When you have done that, place your hands where the red lines are along dash (picture went a bit off, but you can figure it out), grab the edges and pull, and i mean really yank it! (dont be scared!)

You should end up in this situation

Try and put this put this out of the way without breaking the wiring, i just shoved it in speedo dash hole and it stuck it in there, its holds it pretty well ;)

Anyway, now you need to unscrew bottom half, you need to unscrew the screws shown by the arrows here....(Screws cannot been seen in pic, arrows show where it would be)

Now remove the ashtray (press down on metal tab and pull it out) then unscrew the screws there as shown here...

Now again grab the sides and pull, i found it easier to pull at the very bottom where dash board is and lever it out as far as possible. then i gripped the top and placed my thumbs on the sides of top bit, i levered with my thumb (pushed with my thumb) and it came out with a bit of a fight...but at least you dont hit yourself :D

Disconnect ALL the wiring that goes into the headunit and lighter. Congratulations you have a free unit...

To put new headunit in, you need to unscrew the cash tray and put your headunit in from BEHIND where cash tray was, screw the headunit on like the cash tray was held. hey presto, you got a heavier lower dash :D

Start putting the bottom bit in, but leave it reasting agaist gear shifter...This will allow you to wire it all, get your Halfords adaptor and plug the old toyota connections into it, then connect the adaptor the the headunit wiring, and if need, plug the headunit wiring into the headunit :D

Like this

S - Standard plug/wiring

HA - Halfords adaptor

HC - Headunit Connection :D

After that, get it all put away screw it all in and this should be a finished project :D

Hope this helps you all!

Tips

Dont leave key in ignition this will blow your fuse :S (when disconnecting and connecting)

test the headunit works before putting everything back ;)

If you find the headunits memory resets itself, you need to look for a yellow wire and a red wire, there will be two halfs, you need to make sure the red wire is connected to the red wire and the yello wire is connected to the yellow wire.

Hope this helps

Cheers

Matt

[vmail]

matt how many clips are on the speedo?

[Moffmo]

On a trying to guess, i think there are 5.....

one on top,

one at each side

two at bottom....

[knightrider]

its jus push fit methinks

[T V O R]

Good work Matt, nice to see someone take the effort and post pictures to help someone else.

[Moffmo]

Good work Matt, nice to see someone take the effort and post pictures to help someone else.

:D Pleasure....

[vmail]

how many cables are attached?, on the starlet it was tricky, 3 cales, then the speedo cable, you had to have your hands behind the speedo and there wasnt much room

[jaxx]

theres no cables

just two plugs

nice one matt!!

can you copy and paste all that into workshop submissions so its in a topic under your own name and then ill link it on the how tos

[knightrider]

its only the surround were talking about here

[Moffmo]

theres no cables

just two plugs

ditto, for speedometer.....

what i did it took it out and leaned it on steering wheel... I didnt unplug it

[Robie]

If you are unsure about how to fit it then it will still be cheaper to take your headunit to an Audio Technician to fit for you. Shouldnt be any more than £40 labour I should imagine.

[knightrider]

i have a standard tape deck for sale, contact me

[Monkey Shuffle]

having trouble gettin in touch, damn computers, email me at frank_cheese@hotmail.com and we'll get something sorted.

cheers

dave

[Radtoy]

I'll have a standard cd player for sale next week...want it?