Those days only a cassette player was available in a car. But these days music has taken the predominant form in CD and DVD. If you still own a cassette player in any car you can easily switch over to a CD player and modernize your car yourself. This can be done at a low cost as an after market CD player can be installed. But how to install a CD player?

One of the things to be noted while buying a new CD player is its size. Make sure that the CD player is of perfect size as provided in the dash board. While searching for a new in dash CD player care must be taken so that the model of your car as different cars have different make based on their model. It is also important to buy a car stereo connector for the wiring and an in dash CD player kit. This makes the work look more professional.

The first step in the process is to find the things we must need to complete the task. Few things are very essential to build up a dash player kit and they are around twenty pieces of butt splices. They must have insulations done and wire strippers are must as during installation the pliers and strippers play a very important role. Lastly the most important is the wire which connects the stereo.

Insert an end of the orange wire coming out of the wiring connector of the car stereo into the vinyl insulated butt splicer. Now close this side of the splicer. This can be easily done using the nose pliers. Make sure that the butt splicer holds the wire firmly. Now insert the end of the orange wire that is coming out of the rear end of the CD player into the other end of the butt splicer and close this end with the use of the nose pliers. Be sure that there are no loose connections and the wire is held firmly by the butt splicer. Repeat this step for all the wires that can be seen in wire connecting the stereo. Make sure that each wire is matched very well with the similar colour and size of the player.

In the next step in the process we should remove the insulation from all the wires that comes from the wiring connector for car stereo. The insulation should be removed for about 1/8 to quarter inches and here also care should be taken so as to avoid the damage caused to the internal wiring.

Now remove the dash board covers and fix the CD player to it, you might need to follow the procedure given in the Car manual or CD player manual regarding the removal and re-fixing of the dash board which varies with each make of the vehicle.

Next thing to be done is to repeat the above step for all the wires that is present. Make sure that each wire is matched with the corresponding wire or it could lead to other faults. Then in order to install it, you can remove the dash board. But before doing this you should first go through the compact disc dash kit manual instruction. After that you can push both the player and the connector inside until a click sound is heard. The last steps include putting the screw back in its place and then starting the vehicle and check the functioning of the player.

One can modernize the car by knowing how to install an in – dash CD player, and these steps helps to know it.