MY FRIEND WITH A VW GOLF SAYS THAT I CANT CHANGE THE FACTORY RADIO AND PASS INSPECTION... TRUE? ANY PROB IF I DO IF ITS NOT TRUE? AND WHEN I GO TO LOOK UP SPEAKER SIZE SIZE AT CAR AUDIO WEBSITES IT COMES UP 5 1/4 FRONT ONLY, BUT NO BACKS AND ON THE FRONT DOOR PANEL IT LOOKS TO HAVE A SPEAKER ON THE TOP AND BOTTOM...

 

welcome to the forums and please turn the caps off man...pass what inspection? there are people on here runing freaking computers in their dashes where the radios supposed to be. as for the speakers you can either run straight 5 1/4 door speakers or 5 1/4 components b/c ur right there is another speaker in that place ur saying. it all depends on what u want to spend

 

I have an aftermarket radio in my 2000 A4 1.8t and passed inspection fine in NJ.

Well.... except that when I went I had the faxed copy of my insurance instead of the hard copy. NJ is the only state that you can't use the faxed card from your insurance co. Why? I dunno, I'm from California.

 

bacon, what did you move all the way over to nj from cali for? that's like the stolen audi capital of the world from what i've seen on all the audi forums.

 

Ok, first of all, why would changing your radio have any bearing on whether your car passes inspection? Second, easy on the caps button, no need to yell.

 

No choice, I would much rather stay in NorCal, but I'm in the Air Force. So when they say move, I have to move.

 

oh well, at least they give you enough to get yourself a nice audi. i have two words for audi owners in nj: the club.

what part of norcal are you from?

 

yeah i passed inspection just fine.. even though i shouldnt have.. I have a bad EGR valve, and that shows up when they plug the emissions into the OBDII but I reset everything with the VAG-COM and they said it all checked out great. So.. just a hint on how to cheat the emissions if your worried about it. But no the Radio has nothing to do with inspection.

 

Vacaville is home sweet home.

 

thanks people... the vw guy said that the cars diagnostics is connected to the radio and taking the factory out causes a trouble code. but i'll take it from you guys. and thats nj state inspection. nj the worst insurance capital in the world... major car stolen, thats honda civics place audis are like top 20 though