Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/996-turbo-gt2/389391-blaupunkt-toronto-install-2001-996-turbo-help-needed-please.html

This is the same stereo I bought. Doesn't look awful in a 996.

What a beauty...

I’ve got that in my 964. Looks fine, works ok but the user interface is effing horrid. Totally unintuitive to use.

<£200 tho and all I really wanted was Bluetooth and DAB without bling.

Continental make this:

Well that looks perfect, if a bit pokey-outey, but maybe the non-cd version is better in that regard.

You would need this too https://www.bergvillfx.com/index.php/products/car-audio/porsche-sticker-label.html

Didn't you buy your Becker relatively recently? Or an I miss remembering?

I wouldn't worry about satnav in a head unit nowadays. Go for that
Continental with a sticker.

@Dammit

Please, please, PLEASE do not buy any head unit with built in sat nav

Why would you want a sat nav so far out of your eye line?

Also sat nav is bad for psychogeography and early onset alzheimer's #luddite #hippocampus

Didn't you buy your Becker relatively recently? Or an I miss remembering?

I wouldn't worry about satnav in a head unit nowadays. Go for that
Continental with a sticker.

January this year, for £500. Am I annoyed? Yes, yes I am annoyed.

Oh. Sorry to hear that.

Still <12m, I'd get on to the company/retailer asap.

EBay, second hand=fucked

Why would you want a sat nav so far out of your eye line?

The Becker unit gives spoken directions.

In german for that authentic feel?

I'm afraid I have not gone to that level of authenticity, I feel a fraud. I can only apologise.

Guess how many hours the garage has spent trying to make my steering wheel? At £100/hour?

Are we guessing how many they actually spent or how many they're charging?

Both.

0.5 & 5

14

Winner - 14 hours spent, invoicing 6.5.

Wheel was £400.

Whatever it is, I imagine it's moneygun.gif for you and ScroogeMcDuck.mov for them...

And the car, right now, is in bits.

Have they made it work though?