Removing the center facia panel

[DeMarioii]

Hey everyone. According to the service manual the center facia, the gray "V" looking trim around your radio and the HVAC controls are one piece. There are two small openings at the bottom on either side of your start button. Supposedly your suppose to take a screw driver or plastic trim tool and pry it off. There are 3 clips on each side holding it in place. Pry it off, disconnect the HVAC controls and you are free to remove the head unit. (which is all the buttons,trim, and cd player, i figured it was just the screen for some reason.)

Either way your probably asking what's the point of this post? Well I contacted both Metra and Scosche to one, custom order an after market piece (dash kit) to fit the remaining slot for a double din radio and two, see if they are in development already. Three, get a wiring harness. (If i were to take a guess, i would assume that its the same wiring harness used in the Sonata/Accent) but i could be wrong. (Scosche HY03B Speaker Connector for 2000-Up Hyundai Sonata/Accent)

Back on topic. I went to my V to take off the facia to confirm which kind of connector it had. I wedged my screw driver in the slots and just couldn't pry the panel off. I worked at it for some time but its on there solid. I gave up as i was already scraping up my dash under the slot and plan to re-try after i obtain an trim remover. If anyone has any tips or has done this i would like to know how.

Finally, I hope to be the first V owner with a new headunit. I plan to put my App radio in place of the current headunit and have it molded into the dash color matching as if it was stock. If i can't get a dash kit made anytime soon ill have to get tricky but shouldn't be to hard. As far as the wiring i would just have to use taps instead of the harness if it is in fact a new Veloster connector.

Sidenote: This is the base model and i'm not aware of it having an amp to bypass. under the passenger seat is where the others models are located and there is nothing under my seat so i would assume that the headunit is powering everything. Also, it would be nice if Hyundai had a better layout or blueprint of the headunit and the connectors in the service manual as well as a simple wiring diagram color coded for all the speakers but i guess ill have to make those up in the process.

Stay tuned...attached are some relevant pictures

[Cheeseballs]

Well I contacted both Metra and Scosche to one, custom order an after market piece (dash kit) to fit the remaining slot for a double din radio and two, see if they are in development already.

Are either companies developing a dash kit?

[DeMarioii]

Metra got right back to me and said they are just looking into the veloster but have no Estimated time of how long it will take.


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[Cheeseballs]

Bleh.

The stereo shop (World Wide Stereo) I go to quoted me a price of $2000 to fabricate a full fiberglass kit to fit in a double din unit and retain a factory look. Then again, the shop I go is a bit higher end than most so they charge a premium.

However, they told me yesterday that there might be a possibility of a dash kit being produced in Sweden somewhere and they'd get back to me on Tuesday if they found out more info. I found nothing on Google but if I find out more I will certainly add to this post.

*Edited for horrible grammar.

[DeMarioii]

Haha that's crazy.

In other news, I was told one to two months and will see a dash kit for the veloster.


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[Cheeseballs]

I can't read a word of German but if you don't wanna wait for 2 months try these. I have the single DIN on order.

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[danp2000]

Nice find.

[Kevin]

If you do remove the facing I have a question you can answer for me. I have a brass clock that I always want to put in a car, and it happens it could fit perfectly in the circle where the push button would be (I don't have the pushbutton). I would have to cut that circle down about an inch and I wonder what is behind it that could be destroyed. Thanks.