OEM Radio swap Monaro vs Pontiac GTO

[berliner]

Hello,

i have problems with my radio in my monaro.
....short question:
Can I swap the Monaro OEM(GM 92 159 488) radio for the Pontiac GTO OEM(GM 92189408) radio?

Best regards from germany

Matthias

[vxr2010]

you can look on here for some of the breakers , there are some on ebay every so often , or fit a new non monaro double din cd player

[Global-i]

Personally I would just replace it with a new modern double Din unit, It is fairly straight forward to do.
However to answer your question, physically the GTO unit should fit, but I would check the radio frequencies are the same, or at least cover the range you require.
I have just looked at my original unit and a unit on ebay.com and the part numbers and type numbers are different, if that helps?

[berliner]

Thanks guys but that wasn't the question .... I can buy a brand new NOS GTO unit. The seller cannot guarantee that it will work in the Monaro. Nobody who has already tried this?

[MarvinTPA]

Well, from the pictues on an ebay ilsting, vs the back of the one I replaced, the only difference I can see is the single aerial input, as opposed to the two on mine. Looking at USA broadcast frequencies, FM is 88-108Mhz, however it might not be that easy. I've just found this paragraph.

Radio broadcasting have differences between USA and Europe. Because of that some radios bought form USA do not work well in Europe and in the other way.
This document tries to clear out what are those differences. FM broadcasts North American FM broadcast channels are on the odd 200KHz frequencies: 99.5MHz, 100.1MHz, etc. In Europe, channels can be on any multiple of 100KHz, even or odd. This means that a digital tuner from the USA will not tune European stations properly, resulting in distortion. Some tuner models are switchable between the two schemes, but these are rare. Frequency synthesizing tuners in Europe do their actual tuning in shorter steps (for example 25 kHz). With analogue tuners you have no such problem because they aren't stepped anyway. Be aware that FM stations in Europe use a different pre-emphasis than those in North America, 75 and 50 microseconds respectively. AM broadcasts Same for AM, the difference is 10 kHz steps in the US vs. 9 kHz steps in Europe.

Read more at: https://www.epanorama.net/documents/radio/radio_di...

[HSV_Kiwi]

I've done the opposite. I have a Pontiac GTO in NZ, I swapped out the factory Pontiac GTO unit for a Holden one. The FM bands are different in the US compared to here. As long as you have the pin for the new unit it plugs right in.