Miata Mailing List: October 1997, Message #281
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From: 	"Werner Cassel" <Cassel@post.med.uni-marburg.de>

Subject: Re: Stereo for Miata

Date: 	Thu, 2 Oct 1997 05:39:17 +0000



On  1 Oct 97 at 16:14, campbell wrote:



Greetings,



  My wife's Miata has the stock Mazda radio with cassette.

Since it doesn't seem to be adjustable to the different Frequency band

used here in Germany we are considering replacing it.



  Any one have any suggestions or difficulties fitting an aftermarket

Kenwood and CD changer into the car?



  I ask this, because I went thru the same drill on my Mustang and

just by grace of God did I find out I needed a $90 adapter for the

speaker setup in the car to adapt to something other than a Ford

Radio.  



  Is there a reputable aftermarket dealer in Miata parts that has a

mailorder catalog?



Thanks for your help in advance..



SOUP in Augsburg

w/Donna and her Miata "MOOSE"

...........

No real problems to fit a decent Kenwood or Blaupunkt. It won't look 

factory, though. There might be some problems with the headrest 

speakers. There might also be problems with theft, because the radios 

that work for the full fm band usually have the 1.0 DIN size, and 

that fits into nearly every car in Europe. The stock radio does not.

And, most of the 1.0 DIN radios do not have a clock, so if you 

change you are clockless.

Living in Germany, I still have the US radio in my 91A, and plan to 

keep it. I am pretty sure that in close to 7 years with more than 

100k miles covered, and lots of parking in not perfectly safe places 

in Germany, Italy, France, UK, wherever ..., some potential thieves 

have peeped into our Miata, saw a radio with Zero resale value in 

Europe, and left the car untouched.

I can (nearly) always listen to the FM station I like, bcause usually 

you can get it on even and odd frequencies, and most of the time, I 

listen to CDs anyway. Oooops, wrong, most of the time, I listen to 

the engine :)



FWIW



Werner