"He stold my Balloons"

justin_schubert · 07-10-2007, 03:43 PM

Hello all you Alpine Fanns I have a problem with my Alpine....
It has no front
Someone Broke into my Car Last night and fleeced through my toons and took my Bluetooth Hands free for my Moble it was a Nokia Recharge able but the jokes on who ever took it because it worked for a Week and then just Quit and would not Recharge..... Anyway I have a CDA-9825 that My brother bought and installed himself Yah good for him (He has no time for Electronics) so that is big for him to install something

What I want to know is can I get a Replacement front or is it Just Junk now?
If so Ill take a Sledge hammer to it and then throw it out...
that @$#@#%$ that took it will not get a Working Radio out of this.

RedGTiVR6 · 07-10-2007, 03:51 PM

thread moved...

scott_fx · 07-10-2007, 04:04 PM

ebay

justin_schubert · 07-10-2007, 04:16 PM

Ho that's Helpfull Scott

2k1Toaster · 07-10-2007, 04:16 PM

usually the front faceplates have as little circuitry as possible right? So it would be not too hard to assume that most Alpines that have a basic face-plate with similar specs (either changing or non-changing backlight colour, that sort of thing) would have the same communications part, so it would work?

I dunno, but could be a nifty experiment to get one to work.

2k1Toaster · 07-10-2007, 04:17 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by scott_fx

ebay

Quote: Originally Posted by justin_schubert

Ho that's Helpfull Scott

HOly crap that is expensive!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Alpine-CDA-9805-...QQcmdZViewItem

$70 for a faceplate?! Nowonder why they stole it... You may even buy back your own faceplate!

$55 here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ALPINE-CDA-9805-...QQcmdZViewItem

But the entire stereo is going for less than the faceplates alone?! How is that logical?

justin_schubert · 07-10-2007, 04:33 PM

I Will Kill that Begger if I catch him....... $44.98 Plus $21.07 shipping

scott_fx · 07-10-2007, 08:00 PM

be more careful about where you blast your tunes. when you are withing a couple miles of your house you should defiantly turn down the radio. and..yeah...remove the damn faceplate from the car when you're not in the car...it's harder for them to steal it if it's not in the car

boomintrac · 07-10-2007, 09:25 PM

You do know that they make a removable face for a reason, right? But be happy if you ordered the face from Alpine you would be looking at $160-$275 easily
Aron

JasonMK · 07-10-2007, 09:35 PM

At least they left you the rest of the head unit and didn't tear up your dash, trunk and the carpeting in between that had the CD changer's wiring. At least that's what happened while my car was at the body shop a year and half ago. But I feel for you, there really isn't any feeling quite like having your car broken into.

monkeyracer · 07-12-2007, 07:12 PM

They (manufacturers) price faceplates at about 80-90% of the retail cost of the actual deck to prevent theft of a unit without the faceplate. Meaning, if you actually took your faceplate with you, they would have got the bluetooth kit, and that's pretty much it. Don't know why they took the faceplate, maybe they are listing it on ebay for you to buy it back from them.

I had my whole car torn apart once, it was such a hassle to get everything back into place. Now, I try to make my installs as stealthy as possible, and that's not just the look, the sound has to be too. The only reason someone would want to case your car, is because they heard what you have, and wanted it for themselves.

Hope your ebaying finds you a good replacement, some of the faceplates here are untested and could easily go out. One thing I want to caution, is some of the faceplates have to be "married" to the deck, meaning you can't just use any ol face. It is supposed to comprise of a tech (you...) taking the deck apart and setting up the faceplate... Not sure if alpine did this, actually I'm trying to remember who did this, kenwood, pioneer? unsure...

Jahntassa · 07-16-2007, 10:17 AM

Well, http://www.pacparts.com has the 'Detachable Face Assy' for $37.14, but lists it as out of stock. You could try calling them to see if they have one.

scott_fx · 07-16-2007, 12:59 PM

ok i must be getting old but i gotta ask... wtf does 'he stold my balloons' mean?