CD players in Japanese cars

The idea behind most import vehicles is to ISO mount the radio and not cut the dash and not use the trim bezel. If you have to sink the radio back further into the dash the best way to do this was already suggested. Take the factory radio mounting brackets and drill new mounting holes into them, say another 1/4" back from the holes that are used right now. It is a real simple job to do. Harvey1959 has good advice as well, the only issues I have with it is simple, it is nowhere near as solid of a mount (thus much easier to steal as compared to ISO mounting) and the dash cannot be put back to stock if the vehicle is sold. Some import vehicles do not have room for a trim ring thus must be ISO mounted for them to fit. To each his own, if it was myself I would redrill the brackets.

Two things:

Check your wiring. If you already did, cool, otherwise you may have crowded too much wire behind your radio.

I just did a HU in a Sable today and i came to the point where I thought...."this might not fit".....then ofcourse, I tucked one wire cluster there, the other there and snapped her into place. Sometimes it really seems like it won't fit, but it will. Just thought I'd mention it even if it's not the problem at all. You may have a stereo which is too deep for your dash, most HUs have enough holes to ISO mount in anything. If not, it's time to cut the bracket.

Secondly, I have an '89 corolla and there is no ISO mounting going on in there. I had to do the same thing to fit my DIN cd player. I scraped at the bottom and left side with a dull knife blade, lot's of plastic shavings, but I got the HU to fit perfectly. I even fit a trim piece that doesn't even go with the radio. It looks ok for a hack job!

The only alternative (I thought of doing this) would be to mount it in the console, but even that would require some modification, since there is no radio in there to begin with.