I have some #GenZ coworkers and was telling them about how we used to take our car stereo face plates with us when we left the car back in the days when stereos weren't integrated into the dash and you wanted a nice one.
@renwillis Fun story:
Sis "inherited" dad's baby blue Saab 99 with a POS stereo in it when she went off to Uni.
One morning every single car had been broken into on the parking lot and their stereos taken... except in sis car there was a better one lying on the seat.
Our guess is that the thieves had realized THAT one was worthless, broken into my sis' car, found that one even WORSE and just dumped the better one in her seat.
Dad installed it a week later after the police didn't want it.
The factory stereo in my 19 year old car was draining the battery flat in less than a day when parked, so I replaced it with this one. Halfords was selling off their removable faceplate stereos cheap and I got this half price
@renwillis I have a nice stereo where you pull a handle, and the whole thing slides out of a metal sheath in the dash.
It's not actually that nice. Maybe 20w/ch, with amp outs. But I installed it in a little box in my outdoor repair bays, so I can blast tunes out of the tape deck while working on things that can't go inside.
@renwillis Or if you were lazy like me, pop it off, throw it in your glove box or arm rest, and hope that any thieves would be too dumb to check there.
@renwillis I absolutely had an aftermarket one in my 240 that had this feature. I don’t think I once used it, though. It was a 240. No one was gonna try and boost that.
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