{"id":50,"date":"2015-09-22T11:36:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T18:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westy.life\/?p=50"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:16:08","slug":"replacing-that-factory-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westy.ejazz.io\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Replacing that Factory Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We knew beforehand that our Eurovan Weekender was equipped with the factory radio. This is an AM\/FM unit with a cassette player. Sounds archaic by both today’s standards and even those from 2003! I had a 2003 Jetta that had a better sound system than that. And who has cassettes anymore? Good grief!<\/p>

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We really enjoyed SiriusXM in our old Jeep. It was wonderful to be able to listen to commercial-free music anywhere. No finding local stations, no hunting the right kind of music; with SiriusXM it was always there.<\/p>

So, one of the first priorities for our new Westy is to replace that factory radio. The space available isn’t large enough for today’s fancy displays; the Eurovan has what’s called a single DIN opening. Nonetheless, there are lots of choices for direct replacements in the single DIN size.<\/p>

I found Crutchfield <\/a>to be the best online source for finding the right replacement radio. You can enter in the year, make and model of your car and their system will present all the radios that will fit. Not only that, you can filter out what features you want to narrow your selection, like SiriusXM, CD, Bluetooth, HD radio, etc.<\/p>

I ended up selecting the Pioneer DEH-X6700BS CD Receiver. It had uniformly great user ratings and has all the features we wanted:<\/p>