No antenna
Ok, after looking today with no luck, and taking my car to Best Buy and having them look, there is no antenna wire left in the car. There used to be, but apparently in his haste, the robber ripped out the antenna wire. So, now I can either take it to Honda and probably be charged a minimum of $200 to replace it or I can buy an antenna I stick on the top of my car for $45 at Best Buy. Truthfully, neither option is appealing. The Best Buy solution is temporary at best, and the Honda one is so outrageously expensive that I'd never consider it on principle alone. So I'm inventing a third option: checking to see how the wire is run in a '96 EX model Accord and figuring out how to pull the panels and solder on a new antenna wire (for about $10). When will I ever get the time to do that...
Oh well, need to buy a new CD player for the car too. I can't justify the cost of an iPod or anything of the sort (though I appreciate Anna's enthusiasm for the gadget). The Honda CD player is only $150 on eBay, so I'm thinking that's the way to go. It fits just fine with the factory radio, it's a good CD player and it's not as tacky and likely to break as all of the aftermarket models. It's also not as expensive. The only downside is I could have used this opportunity to get an MP3 CD Player, but they're all about $200 and pretty freaking ugly (and mostly cheap too). I've never been a fan of the transparent keyboard, so the same mentality applied to car audio doesn't work for me. I think I'd rather just get a CD player and go with that. MP3's are nice (soooo many songs on a single CD), but it'd be hard to find the one I wanted at a given moment and the good ones are just so expensive.
ME
Oh well, need to buy a new CD player for the car too. I can't justify the cost of an iPod or anything of the sort (though I appreciate Anna's enthusiasm for the gadget). The Honda CD player is only $150 on eBay, so I'm thinking that's the way to go. It fits just fine with the factory radio, it's a good CD player and it's not as tacky and likely to break as all of the aftermarket models. It's also not as expensive. The only downside is I could have used this opportunity to get an MP3 CD Player, but they're all about $200 and pretty freaking ugly (and mostly cheap too). I've never been a fan of the transparent keyboard, so the same mentality applied to car audio doesn't work for me. I think I'd rather just get a CD player and go with that. MP3's are nice (soooo many songs on a single CD), but it'd be hard to find the one I wanted at a given moment and the good ones are just so expensive.
ME