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No one would break into a car to steal the radio-only stereo that comes with the car, would they? It doesn't even have a cassette deck! So when you get a good expensive stereo that plays CDs and mp3s and DVDs and laserdiscs and has 24 channel surround sound and a direct digital microwave link to every
radio station in the country, make sure it has a faceplate that looks just like the crappy stereo that came with your car. Voila! No one will steal it.
a more generalized version here on the HB
http://www.halfbake...0not_20get_20stolen
[luecke, Oct 04 2004]
A really boring faceplate
http://www.wilcoweb.com/ghost/index.html
At least, I think it can be visited directly. [dpsyplc, Oct 04 2004]
JVC Chameleon
http://www.garagevi...e/tuning/radio.html
Try Babel Fish to read the german... [PainOCommonSense, Oct 04 2004]
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Definately baked, but I can't remember if I saw the pic on the web or in a car magazine.
The cover for the head unit had dials and everything on it. |
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I was thinking to myself today that VH1, MTV, and some reality TV should provide a nice distraction instead of editing sound or obscuring naughty video. I thought immediately of a boring automobile stereo faceplate, because if it's supposed to look different on TV -- it's supposed to look different enough that you can't see it on radio. A side effect of the visual add and tuning subtract would be a loss of offensive program sufficient to alter the perceptions of victims of the jive propaganda, and a further incentive for producers of offensive material to clean it before release or to risk loss of profit as loyalists bail. |
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I would like to do this for my Pioneer unit, which has a really awful user interface anyway. There's a 12-pin connector that this plugs into. I don't know the protocol or pinout, and my reverse-engineering skillz aren't l33t enough to work it out. I could see if they sell the unit separately, then buy one and redo the switches - it'll certainly look cheap then! :-) |
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Did someone steal dpsypic's brainplate? |
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Zero Relevancy anecdote:
I was caught by the cops once for driving without due care and attention. I was just looking down changing the radio when the police guy told me to pull over. |
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Shame I had just about got the new one plugged in and everything too.... |
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But seriously JVC do the Chameleon which looks great when it is turned on but looks folds it self in to look like the front has been removed from a cheap face-off car stereo. it's Great! |
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dpsyplc...
have you been on the wacky baccy?
Also (totally unrelated)..is your name pronounced "disciple"? |
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