A couple weeks ago I noticed a couple 6-disc MP3 radios for sale on eBay for cheap, and bought one. Problem was, they were for a Mazda3.
Figured I'd try it anyways, since I got it for such a good deal.
So fast forward to last night at work. Pulled the stock single CD out, and plugged in the 6disc/MP3.
Guess what, it works!!!!!!!!! Kinda. Well, it works if you want to re-label all your radio buttons and not have a eject button for your CDs. Shame because it actually SOUNDED better.
So apparantly, the radios are all similar in construction, but something internally is different.
Rewind to a couple months ago. We had a tech that was doing the Sirius Satellite re-flash to a car and when he did it, he entered the wrong program and CHANGED THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BUTTONS.
Figuring I may be on to something, I used the reflash kit with the CX-7 files to try and re-flash my Mazda3 radio. Figured if you can program a radio to the wrong car, you can program the wrong radio to the right car.
BUT, one thing I neglected to check. The re-flash is only for CLARION units.
The Mazda3 radio I got from eBay is a Sanyo.
So, in THEORY, this should work. If I only had a Clarion radio.
Anyone got one and want to trade????
So basically this can be done if you have a friend at a Mazda dealer, and a CLARION radio from another Mazda (3, 5, and MX5 only) you want to put in your 7. Or whatever you have.
No I won't do it to your car if you bring it to me. Sorry (outie)
Figured I'd try it anyways, since I got it for such a good deal.
So fast forward to last night at work. Pulled the stock single CD out, and plugged in the 6disc/MP3.
Guess what, it works!!!!!!!!! Kinda. Well, it works if you want to re-label all your radio buttons and not have a eject button for your CDs. Shame because it actually SOUNDED better.
So apparantly, the radios are all similar in construction, but something internally is different.
Rewind to a couple months ago. We had a tech that was doing the Sirius Satellite re-flash to a car and when he did it, he entered the wrong program and CHANGED THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BUTTONS.
Figuring I may be on to something, I used the reflash kit with the CX-7 files to try and re-flash my Mazda3 radio. Figured if you can program a radio to the wrong car, you can program the wrong radio to the right car.
BUT, one thing I neglected to check. The re-flash is only for CLARION units.
The Mazda3 radio I got from eBay is a Sanyo.
So, in THEORY, this should work. If I only had a Clarion radio.
Anyone got one and want to trade????
So basically this can be done if you have a friend at a Mazda dealer, and a CLARION radio from another Mazda (3, 5, and MX5 only) you want to put in your 7. Or whatever you have.
No I won't do it to your car if you bring it to me. Sorry (outie)
