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In several years, I hope I can afford to buy a (new or used) car.
I understand that several makes sell cars without radios.
As far as I'm concerned, as long as it moves and has A/C, it's all right for me.
Is it even remotely possible to buy a radio-less car (from the factory) and install your own radio, or are the wires not even there to do this?
If it's possible, is it worth it? I don't care about CD players or fancy things on stereos, just as long as it at least has FM.
This may have changed, but I believe that as of a year or two ago, you could get new base models of the Nissan Versa, Honda Civic, and Toyota Yaris without a radio.
Depends on the car, yes there is a radio delete. Used to be frequent with fleet vehicles. Anymore a radio is about standard. Just about every vehicle out there has AM/FM. It is more common to AM/FM/CD.
This may have changed, but I believe that as of a year or two ago, you could get new base models of the Nissan Versa, Honda Civic, and Toyota Yaris without a radio.
true with the Versa I believe, but pretty sure the Civic comes standard with CD. Not sure on the Yaris.
Anymore, radios are standard equipment, so I'd guess if you ordered a vehicle w/o a radio you'd end up spending more for it.
Depends but I believe usually when you ordered a vehicle as radio delete, you got the electrical pig tail for the power/ground/clock wires but you didn't get the harness for the speakers.
My '91 S-10 came factory as radio delete, and it has only the pigtail for powering a radio but not the one for the speakers or the speaker harness.
For what a factory radio costs, I don't think it would be worth the minor savings to delete the radio, at least not if you're going to have one installed anyway. The factory radios that are now installed in new vehicles are often quite good, or at least they are decent, and they often have a multi-speaker installation. The amount of work necessary to tear the car apart to install a sound system, and the expense to do so, isn't worth the cost savings of the radio delete option in my opinion.
In many cases, deleting a standard feature (especially in the case of a relatively inexpensive radio) will actually increase the price of a vehicle rather than reducing.
In the early 70s, you could even get a big fancy Buick Electra without a radio. I know someone with a 1972 Buick Estate Wagon that is a ultra-low optioned car (very rare) that didnt even come with a radio.
That has to be the oddest question I've seen on here...
But like others say, getting one without Radio/Cd will if not cost you more, at least not be cheap enough to warrant buying it without if you're putting one in anyway.
Even with repair cost though, the cheapest car to have is an older one, if you don't care about anything other than AC.
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