Removing Vent covers 1991 Park Avenue?

[asan102]

I'm installing a new stereo in my 1991 Park Avenue, but I can figure out how to get the vent covers off to get at the screws behind. Any help?

[Crazace]

What I did on mine was just placed a screw driver on the top side of the vent covers and pryed them out. Its pretty easy once you figure it out, the hardest part your gonna have if your stereo is not an exact fit is gonna be with the install kit.

[tman]

A little less crude of a way to get them out is to turn them to either side, end pull against the part that will be sticking out. Gently of course.

[cort71]

asan102 are u a macintosh user? i remember that screen name from either spymac or apples support page. cant remember wich.

[asan102]

Thanks. I guess i didn't try the ovbvious approach out of fear of hurting my car.

I got it installed now fine, thanks for the help (although my piss-poor instructions didn't mention the two screws above the instrument panel, and they don't even look like the hold the dash in place, although apparently they do.)

I did previously post on spymac a lot, but I left when they changed it to Spymac 2.0 or whatever, beceuse of the general suckage it introduced.



Another (slightly related) question: does anyone know where I can buy a replacement faceplate for my Alpine CDA-9825? (I swear i'm not involved in any illegal activity :P ). I have the iPod adapter, and it's a nice concept but the interface is not the greatest (particularily the incredibly tedious proccess of scrolling through hundreds of artists on the rotary encoder). I'd like to get another faceplate so I can dismantle it and make it into some type of wired remote that;s more ergonomically friendly. I'm not asking for advice (although if you have any experience with this type of thing I'd love if you shared), I just want to find out where to get my hands on a faceplate (I'd rather not accidentally wreck my only one). Can I just call Alpine and tell them I lost mine and order a replacement? I'd imagine they wouldn't allow that (I would think that that defeats the theft-detterant purposes of a removable faceplate, yes?) but I thought I'd ask.

Thanks for all the help,
Sam Walker