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Preach

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  • Birthday May 18

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    Among the yoopers, eh?
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    2005 Legacy GT Limited
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    Pining after my love, watching the sun set over dunes.
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    Driving fast boats with big guns

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  1. Got one; throwing my two cents into the pot here. Arrived quickly without fuss, all parts good. The disassembly of the console is outright draconian, but you can hardly fault anyone but Subaru for that. The disassembly of the radio was made easy by the very well put-together instructions. Soldering was less terrifying than I was anticipating, and I mounted the switch on the left side of the face, opposite the hazard button. Had to dremel through some metal to make it work, but it fits. Cable fished out through the ashtray to compliment my droid mount. And then it didn't work quite right. At first, it was working, then intermittantly power-cycing the radio, coming back on to the lowest FM radio station number. No bueno. So I rippped the whole thing apart again to discover that the pcb had become partially un-stuck from its mounting location and was making contact with the head unit in some bad ways. Re-stuck, back together, all good. Then the switch wouldn't work quite right. "Aux On" was fine, but both "Auto" and "Off" worked as "Auto," which was frustrating if I wanted to listen to a CD (had to kill the input and wait a bit). My brother and I took it apart one last time and discovered that the leads going into the switch were being bridged by the edge of the hole I had cut in the metal face. Oops. Electrical tape applied, and we were back in business. Conclusion: Everything works great now, and the things that didn't work great were my fault. Good product, worth every $. Wishful Thinking: I think it would be cool to have the input terminate in a female jack, integrated into a cigarette lighter, which also has a USB plug. Sort of a one-stop shop for power and audio for most USB devices. A man can dream, I guess.
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