In this thread I was talking about how my VW Bus got broken into and the wanna-be thieves tried to steal my 4 year old $98 Pioneer CD stereo, only to be foiled by my high-tech anti-theft device: Non-removable faceplates. 
So to pay me back for my failure to provide them with a valuable item, they smashed it into the dash.
Well, tonight I went out to pull the pieces out of my dash and see what could be done. It seems they just broke some more of the plastic off the faceplate and it came off the unit. I pushed it all back together, wrapped it in some Man's Miracle (duct tape - in designer black!) and plugged it back in. Works perfectly!!!
Now, one instance does not a lifelong fanboi make.
Last year, that same stereo was in my Volvo. And the same thing happened! Shallow end of the gene pool products that these guys were, they tried to get the faceplate off. But, since it's not removable, they couldn't and just busted it up. I pulled it out, purchased a detachable faceplate Pioneer (a much nicer and more expensive one, to be sure) and put the $98 wonderstereo back together with black electrical tape. It ended up in the bus a few months later.
Now I'm Unofficially with Wendy's...errr. . . I mean Pioneer. If this thing could survive idiot thieves TWICE, I think that Pioneer has just earned my business for the rest of my life.
So to pay me back for my failure to provide them with a valuable item, they smashed it into the dash.
Well, tonight I went out to pull the pieces out of my dash and see what could be done. It seems they just broke some more of the plastic off the faceplate and it came off the unit. I pushed it all back together, wrapped it in some Man's Miracle (duct tape - in designer black!) and plugged it back in. Works perfectly!!!
Now, one instance does not a lifelong fanboi make.
Last year, that same stereo was in my Volvo. And the same thing happened! Shallow end of the gene pool products that these guys were, they tried to get the faceplate off. But, since it's not removable, they couldn't and just busted it up. I pulled it out, purchased a detachable faceplate Pioneer (a much nicer and more expensive one, to be sure) and put the $98 wonderstereo back together with black electrical tape. It ended up in the bus a few months later.
Now I'm Unofficially with Wendy's...errr. . . I mean Pioneer.
If this thing could survive idiot thieves TWICE, I think that Pioneer has just earned my business for the rest of my life. 
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