A few months ago the passenger side speaker in the van quit working. No problem, I’ll just get a new speaker for the side and switch it out. Sounds easy right? Nope. Due to the placement of the speaker on the doors I had to find one slim enough to fit between the dash and the door.
I searched for days on the internet and was unsuccessful. On the off chance I thought I would check the speaker to see if it was actually broken. So I went out to the van and took off the driver and passenger side door panels and unhooked both of the speakers. I plugged the passenger speaker into the other side and to my surprise it worked!
Now that both speakers were working I needed to find a replacement radio because it turns out that the port on the back of the radio had gone bad. My goal was to find a “new” radio with cassette player. Over the past year or so I had been collecting cassette tapes for the van since it had a tape player. One would think this would be an easy task but no body sells car radios with cassette players anymore.
After a bit of searching a friend of mine had gifted me an old aftermarket radio he had which saved me a few bucks. Although it didn’t have a cassette player it does have a CD player, AUX port and a USB port so I can plug in many devises. But since I have accumulated a bunch of tapes I am going to find a cheap portable cassette player and mount it to the dash. After a bit of figuring out what wires go where and a bit of crimping I now have a new radio!
Vanagon Nomad 