Gotta give a hand to the GM engineers who made this a difficult as possible. Granted there may be more difficult change outs but for the year and what this is shouldn't be. All the other radio's I've replaced up to now you either just popped a console out or just pulled the radio out. One thing for sure if someone wants to steal this radio.. it would be easier just to steal the RV!!
The Delco radio the CD player wouldn't eject CD's and the radio reception was terrible. Put in a Dual XDM260, mainly wanted the AUX input and couldn't spend alot right now. Decided not to put a module in for the alerts etc and wired it so I'll have to turn it on/off by the power button. Ok since it's a RV and only driven max a couple times a month, and sometimes we use it during pit stops and parked.
Jayco in their lacking wisdom put the rear speakers in with a mix of parallel and series with the front, 12 ohms all together. The stock were 8's. Was able to run some wire to the surround sound speaker locations so for now using those speakers (4 ohms). Now I can turn off the back speakers when the kids are watching TV. Sounds 100 percent better and at least 2x as loud.
Now have to go back out and put the dash back which of course broke right over the steering column.. I'm looking forward to changing the Escape's it'll be simple.
