Hello everyone, i just received my Grom in the mail a few hours ago and went cracking on removing all the panels and such in my rx8.

Ive been using this guide to help me along removing panels.

http://www.whatsmyip.org/lib/rx8-aux-ipod-input/?page=4

the last step shows a yellow circled bolt that i need to remove to take the radio out. shown below


Upon contorting my body to see under there i notice the 2 bolts next to each other than the guide said to IGNORE and i look up to find a hole. I found it odd that there was just a hole there with no bolt. I did buy my car used so maybe the radio was removed before, but i just want some confirmation that this is indeed the bolt that i should have had to remove if it was there.

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When i went to pull the radio, i gently gave it some tug and it seemed like only the bottom half moved. I dont want to do any damage by giving it a schwarzenegger pull.

 

Put your hand behind this bar with 2 bolts and feel around. There should be a single hole there with a single bolt.

 

i just found a video on youtube showing it, one of those AHA moments THANKS!!!!

From the video it looks to be to the left of that bar??

 

so i contorted some more and aimed my phones camera in order to see what was there and found this... is this the location of the bolt thats supposed to be there? hah i hope it is, so somebody did me a favor cuz i would hve never been able to get in there...

 

If that pic is upside down, that would be the location - it's on the side of the radio above your right knee.

 

heard some cracking when pulling, im gonna keep going lol

EDIT: got it out, thanks guys. i wont delete this thread incase someone is looking for that pesky bolt location.

 

Silly not to disconnect the battery.

I found the hardest part was pulling the radio far enough to access the connectors - brutal.

 

yeah i spoke too soon lol. i yanked on it enough to fit my hand in there, but i feel like im retarded because i dont know how to take off the plug of the middle plug on the top

 

Once I removed that bolt, I never reinstalled it. There was a member who left his out and was claiming that his headunit was shaking too much and causing his CDs to skip.... but I call shenanigans on that. I've since reinstalled my factory radio and it's be perfectly fine.

Of course... I generally don't listen to CDs anymore. Wait. What's a CD? What was I talking about again?

 

I never replaced my "mystery bolt", either.

I'm having a brain fart, (My car has been stored for a few months!), but I think you can pull out the glove box and reach the connectors from there.