My new car stereo
Before leaving for Japan almost one year ago now, my car stereo was on its last legs. The CD player would get so hot that after about 30 minutes of playing, any teeny tiny bump in the road that I would go over would cause it to emit a high pitched noise for a split second, which would eventually turn into horrible screeching staticy skipping as time went on. Well, now back from Japan it was one of the things that I would be buying right off the bat, but it seemed to behave properly…at least for two months. Now with a possible road trip coming up, and with my mom giving me a home-made gift certificate redeemable only for part of a car stereo, I finally got off my butt and did a bit of research and decided on this: Pioneer DEH-P6800MP. Why this one? Well, Pioneer seems to be a good brand name for car stereo systems, so hopefully it will last me the rest of the life of my car (now 6 years old). It has the capability of playing an mp3 CD (which I’ve wanted for years), has a 2-line text display and even lets you sort through folders on a disc of mp3’s. The ipod compatability I couldn’t care less about (ipods are evil and I’ll never buy one), the animations it can play will probably be turned off, and the fact that the face has to open to put in a CD is a bit annoying but that’s how they all are these days. Despite the local Circuit City advertising ‘Free Installation!’ I was told it would be “best case scenario of $20-$25, and worst case of $40″ when I went in to check it out, and while I have faith that I could probably install the thing myself (might take me a while, but I bet I could do it), if I fubar myself it would be like $60 to take it someplace and get it installed after the fact. So hopefully Wednesday will be the day…..
And also, someone tell me why all new car stereos today come with wireless remotes? Last thing I want is to hear that the person who just rear-ended me was having trouble changing songs with their car stereo remote…