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2006 Punto - radio

The Black Oil · 2014-12-07 19:18:02

A family member has a 2006 Fiat Punto. The radio is banjaxed - FM is on the blink. What's the best way to replaced, say, get one from a scrapyard - hardly. I see from some other threads that some of ye are not so fond of Halfords anyway. :pac: Any replacement needn't be fancy, the only thing that might be useful is…

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A family member has a 2006 Fiat Punto. The radio is banjaxed - FM is on the blink. What's the best way to replaced, say, get one from a scrapyard - hardly. I see from some other threads that some of ye are not so fond of Halfords anyway. :pac: Any replacement needn't be fancy, the only thing that might be useful is bluetooth, which she doesn't have at present. I presume this is possible despite the age of the car.

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Is the radio in there the factory one? Far as I know they're usually non standard size.

Might be worth pricing repair. Might be the antenna as well?

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Yeah, it's the factory one.

Was checked at service, AFAIK. Long wave still works.

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