So while I was sitting at my desk here in my office, I had a startling revelation.
The problem is that I want to retain my stock head unit for looks (its a stock unit out of a E34 with WB and a few more bells and whistles than E30 units) but its a tape player, and frankly, I don't listen to tapes. Actually, I don't think I've even seen a tape in a decade. I don't listen to CD's either, those are already old news. I listen to Pandora on my Blackberry all the time though. It has a standard headphone jack.
So anyways, I have a tape adapter with cord that you get at Walmart for 15 bucks, but that looks like shit when you leave it in. so my idea is, what if you put the tape adapter in backwards, and route the wire through the back of the unit, down past the HVAC, and pop out of the ashtray, where it can be neatly coiled until you need to use it to plug in phone/MP3 player/Ipod??? I have a selector button on the unit to switch between radio and tape. I thought this was a genius idea, especially while nursing a hangover :)
What do you think?
The problem is that I want to retain my stock head unit for looks (its a stock unit out of a E34 with WB and a few more bells and whistles than E30 units) but its a tape player, and frankly, I don't listen to tapes. Actually, I don't think I've even seen a tape in a decade. I don't listen to CD's either, those are already old news. I listen to Pandora on my Blackberry all the time though. It has a standard headphone jack.
So anyways, I have a tape adapter with cord that you get at Walmart for 15 bucks, but that looks like shit when you leave it in. so my idea is, what if you put the tape adapter in backwards, and route the wire through the back of the unit, down past the HVAC, and pop out of the ashtray, where it can be neatly coiled until you need to use it to plug in phone/MP3 player/Ipod??? I have a selector button on the unit to switch between radio and tape. I thought this was a genius idea, especially while nursing a hangover :)
What do you think?
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