Radio Control Unit Mounting Brackets

These are the designs for the left and right radio brackets, which I designed from the OEM brackets that are attached to the sides of the Radio Control unit in 2012 Ford Fusion. Most of the Radio Control units (or Am/FM/CD units depending on the options in the car) use a model number that begins with BE5Z. I would imagine they may be compatible with other Fords of the era (2010-2012).

My primary reason for printing these was because I've designed a setup for my car using Open Auto Pro on a Raspberry Pi as my radio that replaced my OEM radio to allow for use with AndroidAuto/touchscreen/navigation/etc. Since the brackets mount directly to the sides of the radio, and since I was replacing that with a 3d printed gadget-filled tray, I designed these guys.

The printed brackets are around 4 mm in thickness, to compensate for them being printed in plastic, but they are designed to be a 1:1 swap for for the thinner, metal OEM brackets and do indeed fit on the original radio if needed.

There is one left bracket design. I've included 3 different designs of the right bracket.

<P><B>Faux-EM</b> closely resembles the shape of the original OEM bracket, which has a cutout in the center as well as some kind of weird hook-looking holder
thing(!). With the stock radio, one of the cables for the face-plate come through the opening and needs to be there to pass the wire through.
<P><b>Right Mid</b> eliminates the weird hook-looking holder thing(!) and also has the mounting plate reinforced on the mounting plate, while still leaving the opening in
case wires are needed to pass through that opening. For my purposes, I found that with the "Faux-EM" bracket, the disconnected tabs were more likely to break, although my print orientation may have a played a role.
<P><b>Full Right</b> - A mirror of the left bracket, which is a full bracket if no wires need to pass between.


All of the brackets maintain the top locator pin, and the mounting holes are sized for 5mm hardware.

I printed these in Protopasta HTPLA-CF filament which was then oven-annealed in packed salt for higher temperature resistance, which has been successful considering how it was this past summer where I live. I have all of the brackets lying down horizontal in the models but i would recommend printing them vertically with support if you can swing it, as the 90-degree bend will be stronger in this orientation. At one time I had tons of pictures of all of this, but unfornately I lost a bunch. I intend to update this with photos soon enough as I need to make a change to the radio.

Standard FDM printing settings:
- Layer height: 0.2mm
- Infill: 70%
- Supports: As needed