covering up the old clarion head unit holes
 

Well my I am sick of my clarion working only when it wants to so I am tossing it. I was wondering what people did to cover the holes from the clarion as I am going to a single din. I have holes from the original clarion head unit and the current one which is smaller than the original. I thinking I could just use an aluminum plate and polish it up, but wanted to check here and see if anyone had anything better than that!

A little Bondo and some Rattle can paint.....

And some jb weld and duck tape and we r in business!! You get your ride back together yet?? I can bring the jb weld and we can get her goin!!!

I'm just thinking a plate of some sort to cover it vs filling and shooting them. I guess I should clarify, the screw holes from the old radios.

a dab of marine tex??

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This is what they did on my last boat. Notice the piece of plastic under the stereo cover. I was thinking the same idea with maybe polished aluminum or something.

Go on Ebay and get some colored acrillic that will match a color on your boat. Make a plate out of it.

I made a plate out of stainless (.060 or so). Didn't polish it, but you could, or brush it, or paint it.

Travis, this was on my 260 as I got the plate from a friend. Need to upgrade headunit on my 302 and will probably have the same issue as you when its done.
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...0306091146.jpg

What I had on mine as well Keith. I could make one again if I had dimensions.

That looks good Keith, I will probably end up going that route, although the acrylic might be a cool idea too.

We had the Alpine CDA-118M put in the 29. It has a larger face then a regular head unit however it still wasn't big enough so the guy who did the system wrapped a piece plexi in matching vinyl. I like the aluminum/billet look in the pix above but what we did served the need and it wasn't reflective and didn't get hot.

Alpine doesn't make marine units for the time being. I was looking for one for someone contacted Alpine they said nothing right now.

I made a plate out of an acrylic cutting board. Just searched the web for a site that would make them custom widths and sizes.

As you taught me... Power of EBay...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALPINE-CDA-1...item1e736e747a