DAB radio in car

[tvrdriver]

My wife's new Renault came fitted with a DAB and it's absolutely brilliant. Has anyone fitted one in a TVR Chimaera? Could I still use the CD changer in the boot via the "aux in" socket? What about the Aerial?

[echazfraz]

I've put a SONY MEX-N6000BD in my Chimaera with the aerial routed along the transmission tunnel and up onto the rear shelf and sort of jammed in at the side behind the driver's seat. Not the prettiest install but does the job with the DAB reception for now. I have no CD changer, just the CD player in the head unit which I never use. The unit has Bluetooth reception too for playing songs from my phone and it has a microphone to take voice calls. I tried answering a call on it once; we couldn't hear each other over the engine/wind.

I am planning at some point to put an Android double-DIN touchscreen jobbie in a new dash where the fuel/oil/water dials are, move (and replace) those dials to where the current single-DIN stereo is, make dash a black-wood-effect instead of brown, and install a screen-mounted aerial. This will all happen in around 2037 at my current rate but I promise to take photos and post them here for reference.