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Very simple...take a butter knife to the lining around your Head Unit (HU).
1. You will need to take the cover from your A/C knobs for this. This is one big piece of plastic that is held together by about 5-7 plastic tabs.
2. Start by wedging the butter knife into the side of the dash right to the left of right of HU itself.
3. Start prying it slowly and carefully because your going to want to keep the tabs intact.
(*1) 4. Once you wedge one of the sides out, work your way around until you completely get it off.
5. What you should then be left with are the A/C knobs and the HU.
(*2) 6. From there you most likely will need a DIN tool to remove the radio. I'm not sure. But what you'll need is to remove the the wires and then simply install the new one. If you've got a double deck HU and your mounting a single deck HU then you'll need a mounting kit. Get one off of www.crutchfield.com They got em' for like $10. Good luck!
My edits as I've done this 5 times in the last week. Otherwise very good explination.
*1: 5 wiring harnesses will be connected to the front plastic facing. I find it easiest to work on this by removing the bottom 3 harnesses and leaving the top two on then sliding the front facing piece on top of my dashboard out of the way while I work on my stereo.
*2: You do not need a DIN tool to remove the radio. Remove the 4 screws and pull out slightly to access the wires from behind. All wiring can be removed by hand and replaced by hand. I've done this quite a few times on my car.
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