{"id":821,"date":"2012-10-26T17:06:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T01:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=821"},"modified":"2012-10-26T17:09:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T01:09:50","slug":"car-stereo-progress-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/26\/car-stereo-progress-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Stereo &#8211; Progress Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always dread doing work on my car. Today&#8217;s project was to install a new stereo.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/28\/new-car\/\">bought the car back in March<\/a>. It already had an aftermarket stereo: the JVC KD-G200. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with it. I got something like it for my previous <a href=\"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/two-bad-cars\/\">old clunker<\/a> back in &rsquo;01 or &rsquo;02 so I could listen to CDs as I drove to <a href=\"http:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/c4Zo8j\">Greeley<\/a>. But that was 10 years ago, and nobody uses CDs anymore. (In seven months, I haven&#8217;t even unpacked the <a href=\"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/31\/moving\/\">ones we moved here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>What I want now is something that will let me play my iPod through the car stereo. So for my birthday, I got the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bossaudio.com\/auto\/car-digital-media-am-fm-in-dash-mp3-usb-sd-aux-612ua\/\">BOSS 612-UA<\/a>. It doesn&#8217;t have an optical disk slot. Instead, it&#8217;s got<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AUX IN for the iPod or other consumer electronics<\/li>\n<li>USB socket (for a thumb drive, e.g.) (and, possibly, to provide power to your iPod if you&#8217;ve got a long drive)<\/li>\n<li>SD card slot (you can just leave it there so it&#8217;s no big deal if you forget the thumb drive)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pretty cool, yes?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The only problem is getting it into the car. I need to put it here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23642145@N00\/8126343833\" title=\"View 'Car Stereo Work' on Flickr.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"180\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" alt=\"Car Stereo Work\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8472\/8126343833_72958e31e4_m.jpg\" width=\"240\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, you might not guess, but to take the stereo out, you have to take this out too:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23642145@N00\/8126343735\" title=\"View 'Car Stereo Work' on Flickr.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"180\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" alt=\"Car Stereo Work\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8052\/8126343735_dac296bf50_m.jpg\" width=\"240\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which means you need to take out this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23642145@N00\/8126343635\" title=\"View 'Car Stereo Work' on Flickr.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"180\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" alt=\"Car Stereo Work\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8332\/8126343635_ccce209ef4_m.jpg\" width=\"240\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So you do all that and then figure out that only thing still holding in the bezel is a pair of screws in the ash tray receptacle:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23642145@N00\/8126343531\" title=\"View 'Car Stereo Work' on Flickr.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"180\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" alt=\"Car Stereo Work\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8469\/8126343531_8085687a2a_m.jpg\" width=\"240\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take those out, trying not to drop them into the hole where the stick shift comes up through the floor. Good luck. <code>@##!?@*!<\/code> Find your thinnest and longest pair of needle nose pliers, and wonder why you don&#8217;t have one of those handy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmantools.com\/ullman\/ull3.htm\">magnet-on-a-stick<\/a> tools. When you finally retrieve the screw you lost, make a note to put down a drop cloth over the entire stick shift region before doing anything else.<\/p>\n<p>So. There you go. Take out the radio and just plug this white cable into the black socket.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23642145@N00\/8126369594\" title=\"View 'Car Stereo Work' on Flickr.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"180\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" alt=\"Car Stereo Work\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8332\/8126369594_43007b9968_m.jpg\" width=\"240\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmm. That&#8217;s not really going to work, is it? I wonder if someone sells an adapter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always dread doing work on my car. Today&#8217;s project was to install a new stereo. I bought the car back in March. It already had an aftermarket stereo: the JVC KD-G200. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with it. I got something like it for my previous old clunker back in &rsquo;01 or &rsquo;02 so I could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[641,887,645,643,644,642],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-automobile","tag-car","tag-mechanic","tag-mp3","tag-podcast","tag-stereo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-df","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}