Hey all, long time... I have this mental image of tfabris with steam coming out of his ears at the subject line. Actually I feel like a contestant on American Idol and he is Simon. ROFLMAO

Ok here goes... All hands brace for shock. I recently purchased a Volkswagon R32. If you don't know what it is... do yourself a favor and go look it up. It is well worth 400 something bones a month--even with me in Italy and not being able to drive it. So anyway... I want to install the infamous Empeg that caused so much controversy a couple years ago. (I bought it from this dude and he never sent it until after the FBI got involved. He swears it was a misunderstanding, but I won't comment any further, other than the whole situation was painful.)

HERE is my problem. The .:R32 has a double din Monsoon radio in it. It has a face loading CD player and a tape deck with inputs for a changer in the trunk, that can be tapped into at the rear of the head unit. It actually has a data stream that tells it if you aren't using a VW changer or that peice of junk VW music keg clone. So I can find an adapter that fools the head unit into believing ANY input is legit... but I don't have a place to mount the EMPEG itself.
I actually wanted to pull the factory head unit and replace it with my Kenwood head unit with the empeg directly (over for cooling...?) but the car has a bumper to bumper warranty that will be voided if I replace the head unit. Supposedly the radio will display fault codes.

So I am not sure what to do. I may have to mount it in the glove box or something. I know that mounting vertically is a no no... any suggestions? Anyone dealt with a newer VW install? I do have an I-pod as a contingency, but I am not happy with it, and it isn't worth a d@mn in my opinion. There is a pic included with this post.

Thanks
Chris
aka
StaHi