Carol Dee
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Thank heavens for road hazard!
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ducks4you
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Out garage charges $25 flat to remove and repair nail and screw holes.
Sometimes they have offered to fix small things for nothing.
Since I don't want to shop around for a new garage I have opted to pay them anyway.
They were able to find a whole new engine for Eldest DD's Scion a few years ago--dunno HOW they did that!!
flowerbug
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@ducks4you they do have networks to parts, dealers and used parts and also salvage and junk yards. it's a part of their job IMO and a car person probably knows this too. me not being a car person i'm quite happy if it all happens by magic. 
recently we wanted to replace a CD player in Mom's car. dealer didn't have those units any more, could get one used (nope i don't want to do that as it is likely it won't work for long either), Best Buy would replace it with a single CD player but Mom doesn't want one of those, so we're stuck at the moment until i come up with a music player that she can use via the AUX port. i think i can do this, but haven't gotten that far yet.
all of this i found out via looking online and calling around.
the place we used to use for car stereo stuff stopped doing car stereo stuff (but has not changed its website grr!) and nobody else around could do it either. so here we are.
recently we wanted to replace a CD player in Mom's car. dealer didn't have those units any more, could get one used (nope i don't want to do that as it is likely it won't work for long either), Best Buy would replace it with a single CD player but Mom doesn't want one of those, so we're stuck at the moment until i come up with a music player that she can use via the AUX port. i think i can do this, but haven't gotten that far yet.
all of this i found out via looking online and calling around.
the place we used to use for car stereo stuff stopped doing car stereo stuff (but has not changed its website grr!) and nobody else around could do it either. so here we are.
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baymule
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I used to be a parts person, purchaser and various other things for a garbage company. It was my job to track down obscure parts for older trucks that were in service. Wrecking yards are great places to find stuff. They even have radios in their office whereby they can call out what they are looking for and another wrecking yard will respond. Then they would tell me that such and such had to transmission i was looking for and I got yheir phone number and called them.
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baymule
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Look up Discount Tire , there are lots of locations in your state. I love doing business with them. They looked up my flatbed trailer, I bought tires in 2016, but still got a full replacement tire, free, just paid road hazard for the new tire. I go every 3,000 miles for rotate and balance on my tires for car and truck, free. I just bought 4 new tires for my car, Cooper tires, 70,000 mile warranty, on their credit card, 6 months same as cash. And of course I got road hazard on them! Tires for my truck are so expensive that last year I bought 2, paid them off in 6 months, took a couple of months to recouperate, then bought 2 more.
Finnie
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My 2009 mini van has a 6 CD player in it that is starting to give me trouble. I fear that I will not be able to find a replacement for it either.
And when I have to replace the whole vehicle, knowing that CD players don’t exist in new cars, I’ve been hoping that I would be able to find some company that installs them, for us people who don’t want to change our ways.
flowerbug
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good luck, but so far the only option we have is either to be happy with a single cd player or to find a used one and hope it works. so far reviews of used one sellers are less than encouraging. so my current plan is to hope that Mom will be happy enough with the radio.
SPedigrees
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I digitalized the music off all our old cassette tapes and CDs, put them on thumbdrives that will play on any fairly recent car stereo system. (I replaced the old CD player in my husband's 2012 CRV with a new system that plays thumbdrives; my 2017 KIA's factory installed system plays them.) I'd recommend Asunder CD Ripper, a computer program that is free to download. You might need an external CD player since newer computers do not have built-in DVD/CD players.
I never did get as far as pulling songs off our collection of vinyl records before my converting equipment bit the dust, but I've found a lot of CDs of these old albums on Ebay and used Asunder to digitalize the songs.
This might be a better and more permanent solution for you. If you're like me, good music is the only thing that makes long commutes in the car bearable.
I laugh when I recall a boombox plugged into the cigarette lighter socket of my little old Geo Metro. That car and I traveled many miles together to tunes from the radio and cassette tapes on my plug-in sound system.
SPedigrees
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That is so cool. I love saving anything about to be scrapped that can still be used, or re-purposed. You should see the collection of "trash" in my cellar that I keep, because I know as soon as I part with anything, a use for it will emerge and I'll be kicking myself for letting it go.
