So i’ve got a 1990 Eunos, and the previous owner had an aftermarket stereo installed at some point and they added the cubby box at the bottom. Their stereo is not mounted to anything, it’s literally just connected on the harness and sits in the hole so when you accelerate hard it half flys out the hole.
I’ve removed it as it’s crap and i’ve got my Pioneer one from the old car to put in, but i have no way to fit it. There is no mount or brackets, and i can get it in the hole but it sits with the face about an inch out of the hole and looks awful.
I’ve looked online and can’t find any fascia adpater kits or mounting kits. Does anyone have a nice easy solution or can point me in the right direction for a kit?
Going to take a trip up the scrapyard tomorrow so will see if any of the mx5’s down there have something in them.
Thanks for any help - need to get some music in the car
Any photo.We might have a “tombstone” frame /facia that has just the single din fitting and takes the stereo surround frame to hold it in.Is your car import that had the big radio opening??email; robert.maguire@eircom.net with photo of what you have
Many years ago I faced this problem and made my own bracket, cut and folded up from very thin aluminium sheet. Might have been 1.6mm or maybe even one size thinner. That way I could cut its mounting holes so the radio would mount exactly flush. I also spent time working on the clip-on bezel you always get with radios, shaving it down so it fit inside the console cutout and filled the gap around the faceplate. Also, fearing the aluminium would be too weak not to sag, I glued a block of polyurethane foam on top of the cubbyhole below to absorb vibration and support the back of the radio.
That worked so well that I salvaged it from my old car and fitted it in my next one. Replacing radios over the years has meant a bit of time shaving down new bezels but it bugs me to have a radio that sticks out of the dash when it doesn’t need to. I recognise that’s a bit OCD.
Late model Eunos Roadsters (1995 and later, NOT UK or Irish MX5s) had a modified tombstone, that allowed fitment of a standard radio flush, without afore mentioned bodging.
Forget the labels; they are incorrect.
On the left is the standard surround fitted to all md-1995 and earlier Eunos Roadsters, and all Mk1 MX5s. On the right is the surround fitted to Japan market phase 2 Mk1s (late 1995). The difference is the slightly wider opening, and the step, so a radio and bezel sits flush.
Yeah after much reading up I’ve found out that as mine is a '90 Eunos import, this was before there was a universal stereo size, which was around 1995? So the opening is not wide enough to fit a standard aftermarket stereo and have it sit flush. It looks like you would only need to shave like 2-3mm off one edge of the stereo bezel to get it to fit though, and i plan to do this at some point. For now it’s sat one side flush the other poking out. Apparently the only other way to get a stereo to sit flush is to buy a later 1995+ JDM Tombstone which will allow you to fit one, and they do not come cheap.
I’ll try the bodge, cutting the stereo bezel rather than the tombstone and see how that looks.
