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[TheBoy]

As others have said, you need to modify standard tools, they are all shite.

Halfords/Autoleads ones are possibly too soft, even with modification.

[Bigron]

Dave DND, as I said earlier, my unit is neither in nor out; I cannot release it all the way and cannot return it fully either - something behind it is stopping it.
Do you think the tools you suggest would help (I've used the "U" shaped 2 prongs per side so far), and if so, how much for you to provide a set and send to me, if you were prepared to do so?

Ron.

[ronnyd]

Sorry Dave, can.t seem to see pics on my antique laptop . Any clue which bit to file?

[ronnyd]

Ditto dbug, no effin pics.

[dbug]

Pics ok on my gear - must be your "antique crappy laptop"

PM your email addy and I'll email you a copy of pic - its a std jpeg. 

HTH

[Dave DND]

Dave DND, as I said earlier, my unit is neither in nor out; I cannot release it all the way and cannot return it fully either - something behind it is stopping it.
Do you think the tools you suggest would help (I've used the "U" shaped 2 prongs per side so far), and if so, how much for you to provide a set and send to me, if you were prepared to do so?

Ron.

If its sticking partway out, then its just a case of wiggling it about as it unlikely to be anything more than being a tight fit in the cage.

[Bigron]

Thanks Dave.
I've tried the Arkwright "jer-jer-jiggling it about a bit", but it comes out about half-way and that's it; nor will it go fully back now.
Is the cage supposed to come out with it too, because it does!
The reason for wanting to take it out in the first place was to find the serial number, with a view to getting the code off-line, but I think it was your good self who disabused me of that idea some time back, saying that they don't co-relate? I've not had it functional for years, as I don't have the code and it's only because of this thread that I started to consider trying again.....

Ron.

[Nick W]

Thanks Dave.
I've tried the Arkwright "jer-jer-jiggling it about a bit", but it comes out about half-way and that's it; nor will it go fully back now.
Is the cage supposed to come out with it too, because it does!

No it isn't, and that is your problem; the locating lugs of the cage and the tight fit of the radio in it have jammed everything up. It might be worth working a thin, blunt knife down the sides of both the radio and the cage to free it up

[Dave DND]

Wallpaper scraper is what we use here instead of a thin knife in those instances 

[dbug]

Pics ok on my gear - must be your "antique crappy laptop"

PM your email addy and I'll email you a copy of pic - its a std jpeg. 

HTH

As promised copy of pic emailed to your email addy Ronnyd 

[Andy H]

I got mine out a few years ago using unmodified/crappy removal tools by putting my fingers in the cassette slot and pulling.

Another example of the kind of crap design (especially espoused by the designers of interior trim) that makes it impossible to see how the clips work until you have broken one to remove it

I fitted a different head unit so I had to remove the CCR2006 cage. That was almost as bad to remove - it has perforations punched all over with sharp edges. The sharp edges bite into the plastic dash surround and I had to bend the top and bottom of the cage to make it shrink a little.

I think the hole in the plastic dashboard surround is slightly too small which makes the cage an interference fit and hence makes the CCR2006 a very tight fit.

If I ever refit the CCR2006 I will need to straighten out the cage first and then find a way of reattaching the CCR2006 facia which is now only attached on one side

[ajsphead]

I got mine out a few years ago using unmodified/crappy removal tools by putting my fingers in the cassette slot and pulling.

Another example of the kind of crap design (especially espoused by the designers of interior trim) that makes it impossible to see how the clips work until you have broken one to remove it

I fitted a different head unit so I had to remove the CCR2006 cage. That was almost as bad to remove - it has perforations punched all over with sharp edges. The sharp edges bite into the plastic dash surround and I had to bend the top and bottom of the cage to make it shrink a little.

I think the hole in the plastic dashboard surround is slightly too small which makes the cage an interference fit and hence makes the CCR2006 a very tight fit.

It's not just the CCR2006. I had to remove a CDR2005 in my corsa and had all the same problems mentioned here. Removed the glovebox, vent trim etc and prised it out using a variety of tools having pulled the face off it by accident. Fortunately just a clip fitment on that model. Having got it out then tried to fit a replacement CCR2006, the problem became clear. The cage had been bent in the past and the release tab plates on the head unit were binding on the sides of the cage. A few gentle blows with a small faced hammer up and down the sides of the cage and it was sliding in and out with no problem at all.

If I ever refit the CCR2006 I will need to straighten out the cage first and then find a way of reattaching the CCR2006 facia which is now only attached on one side

[Bigron]

Gentlemen, thank you. I'm not sure if your comments give me encouragement and inspiration, or an urgent need to visit marks and Spencers!
However, brave (foolish?) as I am, if the motivation grabs me tomorrow.......

Ron.

[ronnyd]

Pics ok on my gear - must be your "antique crappy laptop"

PM your email addy and I'll email you a copy of pic - its a std jpeg. 

HTH

As promised copy of pic emailed to your email addy Ronnyd 

Thanks dbug and have replied.

[ronnyd]

Finally got the bugger out, took two of us, me and a retired radio fitter who is local to me. Keys were no good, had to use electrical screwdrivers. Once we had released the latches it came out quite well. New radio in and works well.