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Old Feb 3, 2018 | 06:58 AM
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Default Re: Fitting a double DIN radio
Originally Posted by onehundred80
Thanks, I have stripped the trim from the hatch and the passenger sidewall panels.
This will enable me to attach the camera to the bottom of the hatch and run the wires through the rubber boot at the top of the hatch. I may replace the air hose that locks/unlocks the hatch, when the OEM hose breaks with it locked you have some work to do. The original hose is the wrong material, it should be polyurethane as it is highly flexible, the OEM hose is PVC I think and it gets brittle.
I noticed some separation of the foam from the headliner by the hatch, that may be the next project.
I am removing the hatch lock as was suggested by UrbanE to avoid drilling into it. With the garage being so cold I have lost some enthusiasm, But I still have ten weeks or so before the car goes back on the road.

Here is the hatch lock out and on the bench, it is shown in the locked position. The vacuum/air line fitting snaps into the round white connector on the left of the latch.
I was reminded that magredvet did a post on how to open the hatch on a coupe using a screwdriver inserted through the driver side license plate light hole. It showed what to push but it did not have the locked and unlocked positions of the mechanism.


Here is the hatch lock with the mechanism in the locked position with a screwdriver pushing against the slide that has to be engaged with the latch handle in order to open the hatch.
Imagine that the red rectangle is the hole where the driver side license plate light goes with the screwdriver going through it.



Here is the slide pushed over to engage with the latch handle.
Nice detail - Thanks
 
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