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[xforge.livejournal.com]

I am about 90% sure that's an aftermarket receiver; why the heck didn't he just buy one that plays CDs????

[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

Who says he bought it, vs getting it from a scrap yard or a mate's old car or something.

I have to say if this works, then this guy's solution FTW!

uhm, no.

[melstav]

Toyota doesn't make aftermarket receivers.

Look near the upper-right corner of the cassette slot.

[ucnu112.livejournal.com]

Aftermarket, even though it has "Toyota" printed on the faceplate? =)

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

Oh hey, a cup holder....

[melstav]

Granted, the fact that it's an OEM receiver does not *necessarily* mean it's original to the vehicle in which it is currently installed.

[tullamoredew.livejournal.com]

used to have the same in my first car, back in '98 :)

[tattooofhername.livejournal.com]

You should submit this to http://thereifixedit.com/

EDIT: Never mind. That'll teach me to check first

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

::snickers:: I had one of those calls today!

"The cup holder's broken!"

/facepalm

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

Why not? :D

[tauren-wardrums.livejournal.com]

Similarly, this could belong in science_porn as well.

Re: uhm, no.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

D'oh, good catch. Apropos of absolutely nothing, my OEM receiver doesn't say Toyota on it. But ahem, yeah.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Good catch, missed that. I'm at the office, I'm distracted. = )

[xforge.livejournal.com]

True this. I say that of easily 1/4 or 1/3 of the stuff on thereifixedit.

[melstav]

heh. yeah.

'Course, "cupholder" and other "top-load" cd players have a distinct advantage over the slot-loaders prevalent in car stereos and a lot of newer consumer electronics -- they can handle disks that aren't 8-inch circles.

Not only do you have 4-inch mini-cds and "business-card" cds, but I remember walking through a music store in the early '90s and stumbling across a heart-shaped CD. No idea who the artist was or if it was a "full-length" album or a "single"/sampler disk. As long as the centroid is in the exact center of the hole, that's all that really matters for playability.

A slimline drive would have been preferable because it'd hold the disk securely instead of letting it rest on the tray, but i'd have been much more difficult to mount.

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

That is GENIUS.

[vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com]

Creatively wonky, really. Though it does make me wonder if anyone's been silly enough to disassemble a laptop and make it part of the car (as opposed to mounting it in a bracket or similar.

Totally OT, but...

[winter-serenity.livejournal.com]

I miss that car so much. Stupid water truck totaled it.

[tripartite.livejournal.com]

It says, "Toyota" in the upper right. Do they make after market receivers?

[tripartite.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing. I needed a good giggle today. :)

[ravenofdreams.livejournal.com]

I am actually plotting this. The idea is to mount it inside the glovebox.

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

I once considered getting a little 12v motherboard and building it into the center console of my big old Bronco. Small LCD panel on the dash, a BT keyboard & mouse/trackpad/trackball... I'd have been set!

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

Looks like a perfectly viable solution to me.

;)

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

We had a car 'puter in our old Pajero. BF built it out of spare parts (with rubber bands suspending the HD) on a board. Worked a charm!

;)

[lessapartment.livejournal.com]

Creative, though he'd get better sound quality without using the tape thing.

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

Right, in fact that dash and climate control looks very much like a couple of Oldsmobiles I have owned.

[lintilla.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that's a Photoshop - what's that button next to "tape?"

[ravenofdreams.livejournal.com]

I suspect it might be a case of the built-in cd player breaking and needing replacement.

[mix-hyenataur.livejournal.com]

they had a faucet nicely made out of copper pipes. I saw nothing wtf about it for being functional, neat, and just a money-saver.

The guy prolly spent $2 total to make it. I've NEVER seen a faucet priced under $40.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Well, except the average schmoe would have to pay someone with solder-welding experience about $40 to produce it. = ) But if you can do it your ownself, hell yeah, more power to ya.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

I've seen a Mac mini in a Prius, that used the Prius's OEM display. It was uuuuuuuuuuber-geek.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

The button might refer to a changer that was in the trunk, but broke so he replaced it thusly.

[mordant.livejournal.com]

i'm thinking of a 8-10" tablet PC bracketed over the center of the upper console, and run the power supply/audio out straight down through the back of the dash.