Hey guys,

I'm sick and tired of the naff looking standard 6-CD auto-changer on the Fiesta ST. It makes the dash look very dated. I'm thinking of taking the unit out and replacing it with an MP3 player (this would also be more practical for me than lugging CDs about, so it's not just an appearance thing).

Has anyone done this, and what kind of MP3 player sizes can fit into the dash? Am I correct in thinking Ford sell a surround that will fill-in the rest of the dash and hold the MP3 player in place?

If anyone has done this, any info would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

hey mate you can fit a double din cd/mp3 player in straight aways , no messing about just out with old one in with new

I received my fiesta st last week and I instructed the dealer to remove the original unit and leave it on the seat and to install at leas here we say "blenda":) I do not know how to say in english but it is derived from english... with the blenda you get one small drawer and the standard 1DIN hole above it... so I had just to buy for 15 eur the adapter from ford connection to standard iso connection of my alpine 9851rb head unit... I did not try the original unit as was removed before the car was delivered to me but my alpine I have from my previous car a clio 1.4 rt '94 sounds perfect with the original fiest st speakers

here you have the blenda:)

http://caraudiosecurity.com/shop/product/products_id/3035.html

I have changed the standard stereo in my car to an Alpine one. Perfect for Ipods. (Cable plugs into the back and run it to your glove box and plug in the Ipod) The ipod is controlled directly from the headunit itself so no need to touch the ipod again once its in the glove box. The ipod also charges when the stereo is on.

Before I had the Alpine I had a Kenwood for a few weeks. On the kenwood it had a USB port so I just used a memory stick with all my music on and that was also controlled through the headunit. But I found the unit itself to be fairly fiddly and I was always changing albums instead of tracks. I could also connect an mp3 player to this unit.

You can get the Adapter ,taking it from a the current double din size to a single din, from Car Audio Security as izikog has posted, although this is the autoleads one. My autoleads one looks a bit cheap and is not a very good fit so i think it is worth paying the extra and getting one from ford.

My headunit with autoleads facia adapter



Old Kenwood. You can see from this pic that the facia isn't a good fit.

personally i think the 6006cdc system is excellant and does what it says on the tin.

I agree, I mainly plug in my mp3 player into socket and away I go with several hundred tunes and no need to worry about keep removing a head unit every time leave car somewhere.