Quote: Originally Posted by ill_ace
I am using a xenarc monitor and it doesnt seem to fit that nicely. What are you going to do about the two knobs since they are attached to the old lcd and stuff? I am trying to figure out how to do that. And did you just use body filler to mold the screen or fiberglass too? You seem to be active in the forums i have seen you sn before I liked the tutorial about the trunk deadening. (if that was you)
first off, yeah, I'm all over the internet like a kid with ADD....and yes, that trunk deadning was my simple DIY...I had a lot of people ask me about it...I thought it was pretty straight forward and simple, but I guess I was wrong.
2 knobs....you mean for the climate control? Those are staying there, since I need to adjust my climate still, but the center volume knob will still be there, virtually useless though.
I used a combination of things to get the screen in, bondo, bondo glass (which is bondo with fiberglass stuff), and JB Weld. This is basically how I did it.
I used blue painters tape to hold the screen bezel to my OEM bezel, to center it up nicely. After I was happy with its position, I completely taped the front of the bezel up so that I could bondo the bezel in place. That way I already had the main base bondo coat on the front. After the bondo cured, I JB Welded the back of the screen bezel to the OEM bezel, and added Bondo glass to strengthen it even more.
After everything dried, cured for a few days, I started sanding the front of the joined bezels to start hiding the lines of the two bezels, making it look like 1. Now the thing is with bondo, I found that sanding everything only shows so much of the inperfections. I have so much primer of various colors to see the dips, pin holes, and other imperfections. I probably have 'primed' the damn thing about 10 times, searching for imperfections only to sand more and more.
The really good primer I bought was pretty expensive from a crafts store, but it is for plastics, and also fills in very very small imperfections in the bondo. It also ironically enough gave the bezel the same texture as the OEM bezel, so I am pretty impressed with that, the $8 for that can of primer was worth it.
ummmm, oh some other randomness that I have come across in my travels. I just picked up a secondary OEM CC/HU and I think that I can sandwich the LCD between the OEM bezel, and the CC circuit board, and have the LCD circuit board behind the CC circuit board.
I am done house sitting this week, hopefully this weekend I can get some quality time in on this.....I have my new Pioneer DEH-8MP already in, so I am pretty much ready to finish this up and put it in...still have to find matching paint though........
