That is the route I took when I first got my car. But I could never get it to sound good. So I replaced the speakers... still didn't sound good. Added a sub... better but not good. The reason was because the stock radio only puts out 5w per channel. Any good aftermarket unit puts out at least 20w RMS. That, along with the bass/trebel controls that don't do much made the deck a waste of time to integrate into the system. Sure, the stock radio won't get stolen, but it is really poor quality compared even to a $200 aftermarket CD player.


However, there is a conversion cable for plugging into Alpine cd changers and possibly pioneer as well. I don't recommend it.

-Mike