Thread: Stereo upgrade

If I had to do this again, I would go for quality 4" speakers (pair of my 5.25 my JBLs were $50) and instead of 6x9 rear pillars, I would go for 6" round. Still some hacking to do on the rear though. The problem is that even that the 6x9 have a lot of bass, its gets lost in the vast space and the distance the sound travels, to the driver (you), so not really worth the effort. I got rid of the rear door original sub, it was busted and just taking space.

I also have a Kenwood head unit and all speakers wired directly from that, bypassing all original Disco wiring and clutter. (Previous owner has done that).

I think what really made the most difference up front was the deadening of the front and rear doors, (I am a big fan of this now). I sticked few pieces inside the door on the inside of the outside door skin and then sealed the door completely with the deadening material. Sounds like a Merc inside now, very quiet and a luxury ride.

Focal make a 4" shallow mount speaker with seperate tweeter, 100VRS. Screws into the existing holes and the tweeter snaps into A-Pillar trim like its made for them, the only down side is the $$$

depending on year model..

keep pulling the harness out carefully and you will come up to an amaglamated blob, carefully cut this away and viola another set of connectors.

One thing I have noticed is you all have electric windows
I could only fit 4" alpine s types in my doors, and had to use spacers, putting some sixes in the back soon an I have a 12" s type sub, alpine head unit with three pre outs, had a dash pod made so I can take the head unit out of that slot down the bottom, put one UHF in there and another in the pod, Christmas time shall be fun :P

Hi all, many thanks for all the useful tips

Putting LED cabin dome light globes into my 95 Discovery 1 300TDi, I noticed a little spark then realized the switch was still on and the door open.

I turned the switch off fitted the LED globe and it wouldn't work. Reversed the LED globe, still not working.

A quick check and stereo and cabin digital clock not working either.

Pulled all 18 fuses of the main fuse board. All good. Swapped them all out for new fuses. Still no stereo.

Checked all the sub fuse B fuses. All good, swapped them out anyway. Pulled all the sub 1 fuses. You guessed it , last fuse pulled out fuse 1 the anti theft device fuse. Clearly burnt through. Swapped it out. Stereo lights and clock all good.

Good thinking Land Rover. No one steals a car with a broken stereo or no clock!!!

Originally Posted by Hendrous

Just wondering if any of you blokes have removed the old radio cassette on a D1 and replaced it with a more modern unit with CD and ipod connections? The existing stereo on my Disco is pretty much ****ed. The volume control has a mind of its own and the cassette player's only function is to eject whatever you put in it!
Been looking at some Alpine stereos that seem to fit the budget, but I figure a lot of them won't fit the housing and maybe they have different wiring connectors.
If someone has been down this road and knows of a unit which is easy to install I'd be keen to hear about it.

Chrs

Mark

I replaced mine with a sony xplod unit along with the two front speakers as well, its mostly just a switch over job, I did end up having to just cut through the black power cord going into the old unit though.
Old one seemed to be hard wired in with a rather thick power plug whereas the new one fit on an existing plug in the wiring loom and didn't need it.
I didn't buy a wiring loom adaptor and cut/respliced the wires on mine.
fairly easy job and only took 15 minutes once you figure out the first few its easy