Welcome to another episode of Mighty Mods.
Now, today, Marty and I are kicking it in Tamworth.
We've come here to help out a girl who's driving a 1978 Corolla
and she doesn't have a cd player in her car
So, Marty and I are going to show you how to install one.
You're not Marty are you?
This is goldie, a 1978 Toyota Corolla.
With marty still not looking or acting himself, it's going to be up to me to try to install this stereo myself.
That's Joline. It's her car and because it doesn't have a stereo it means she'd rather ride a bike to work
than drive in a car.
And, when you have a look inside this thing, you can see why.
Now, checkout the inside of this car, and look at that stereo.
Mono, AM, and only in one speaker.
And, "Magic happens"? I sure hope so, 'cause Marty's still not looking himself.
Joline's on her bike
and she's heading to the shops for about 2 hours.
That should be more than enough
for us to put in the head unit
and speakers before she gets home.
Right!
Let's get to Business
This is what you're gonna need. Some wire strippers, some speaker wire
A Soldering iron
And of course, your head unit
and your speakers.
Make sure you take the negative lead off the battery before you start work.
In older cars, it's often better to run a new power wire from the battery to the CD player
than trying to use the existing factory wiring.
If you can't find the automotive wiring design for this purpose,
high current speaker wire will basically do the same thing.
This car was made before center consoles had the standard sizing
And without Marty, all we had was a pocket knife to cut it to size
I just hope it works out...
Now we are up to the part where we are carefully making some holes in the back to put the speakers.
Now come here, come here. Have a look. All you need is a screw driver
And quite simply, get a look at this Mr. Camera Man
You put it in here as carefully as you can ... There you go. Just be really careful about it...
That's it.
As careful as you can...
Make sure you do a good job because you don't want it looking messy. As you can see, this one is looking beautiful.
Now I'm sure there's a cleaner, better way of doing this.
But considering the speakers are going to cover the holes.
No one is ever going to see it and no one will ever know.
With both speaker holes cut, we are checking on how the center console is going.
And with a pocket knife, it's hard work.
Now the speakers are in and they're looking good.
But how do you hold them into a flimsy shelf?
Ah ha! Cable ties did the job.
We ran the wiring down the inside of the car.
Cable ties holding that on.
And I wonder how the other guy is going with getting the stereo in.
Ha! He's got cable ties on that too.
Shouldn't be going anywhere.
Remember that cable you ran from the battery?
Solder that into the power of the stereo.
And make sure you heat-shrink all of your connections.
And the moment of truth, it's working
A quick tidy-up and it's time to show Joline our new stereo.
I wonder what she thinks
This is awesome!
2 hours later and Joline is pretty happy
And as the sun was setting over beautiful Tamworth,
It was time to delve into the CD collection
Before we jump into the old Corolla
And hit the mainstreet.
We thought we were pretty cool cruising the streets.
We had the car running sweet.
And the music pumping hard.
Only problem is, Sunday night in Tamworth, there's not many people there to see you.
So Joline took us for an awesome drive up to the hills behind Tamworth.
And with Kenny G kicking on the speakers.
We enjoyed the city lights.
I'm very excited
For the first time in my life
I have a cool ride
So as you can see, she's very happy, we're all done and it's taken us about a hour.
And I highly suggest that you steer clear of Marty because he is looking a bit weird today.
We'll see you next time.
We later found out that this guy wasn't Marty after all.
He's actually one of Mighty Car Mod's biggest fans.
And after letting him in one of our videos,
and giving him a free Mighty car Mods t-shirt
He no longer hangs around the front of our house in the dead of the night.
He no longer calls us and
we've canceled the AVO.