The other morning I got in my car and immediately thought "Gee, why is my radio bezel on the floor?" The answer, of course, is that my radio was stolen. Again. This routine is getting old. This time I didn't have my doors locked, but I'm not sure if that cost me a radio or saved me another broken window.
As I sat at my office desk, fuming, I finally concocted a plan to defeat radio thievery once and for all! Wasting no time, I went to the Bazaar and found something better than a radio. It was a small, 12 volt amplifier with volume, bass, and treble knobs. It was $14 plus shipping. Of course, it was in China, so shipping was $15. Perfect. It isn't a radio, but it can play my satellite radio and Aimee's iPod. The best part? Even a low life thief won't want to steal this thing! A person would have to be crazy to want it! (Erm, don't take that literally)
When my new toy arrived, I was giddy. Aimee picked up a radio harness for me, and I set about wiring up my new "radio". When I finally got out to the car, humming "Into the Wild Blue Yonder" under my breath, my happiness was short lived. Despite the label on the wiring harness, it did not in fact fit a Kia Rio.
Today I exchanged the harness (naturally the guys at the store didn't believe that it was the wrong harness until they had also stymied themselves on my car). This evening I got my car amplifier installed at last.
Now, in case you are uninitiated...Chinese style seems to favor loud. Gaudy, I mean. When I first unpacked this thing, I noticed a clear bezel around the volume knob. "Great", I thought, "probably a calming green LED is behind that." When I turned on the amplifier and hooked it up to my Sirius receiver, my initial reaction was not "Hey, that sounds ok"....it was "Is this thing going to give me seizures?"
In case there was a danger of it getting stolen, I'm pretty sure the flashing light will put the kibosh on that.
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