Crutchfield (and some other installers) claim this based on the bracket that is used to suspend the back of the stock units. It is easy to bend the bracket out of the way and put in much deeper units. I have installed a Pioneer AVIC N2 into my Westy, which is a 7" deep unit (I think). On other vehicles, I or the previous owner have done similar (though with different units). On Feb 6, 2006, at 11:21 PM, Luke Sponholz wrote: > > > The plan is to put it an Alpine head unit. On Crutchfield, only a few > head units are listed as fitting, and I was told by one of their reps > that this is true because most head units are too deep for the > Vanagon. On Cardomain, however, they show far more head units as > fitting. I am thinking they may have erroneous information, but I was > hoping that somebody here may have some insight on this. |
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