mustang rant

Hypntick · Post by **Hypntick** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:19 pm

My wife owns a 2000 ford mustang. Her radio just recently went out the other day and we went to purchase her a new one. Having put in a few car stereos before I figured I could take care of this little problem myself.......until I discovered whoever designed the 2000 mustang is a complete and total retard! There are no less than 5 distinct variations of radio that came standard in the 2000 model mustang. It took 3 wiring harnesses, 2 trips to best buy, 3 trips to circuit city, and 2 phone calls to some company in California before I was even able to find the correct wiring harness to install this thing. Not to mention every other wiring harness I purchased (which I returned of course) cost between 6-12 dollars but oh no, not the one that we needed! This little bastard cost 30 dollars and still required some modification to get working. So in closing the 2000 mustang is a giant pain in the ass to ever attempt to fix anything on (don't even get me started about the non-standard tires). Thank you.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:34 pm

reminds me of Compaq, or Dell, with their propiatary IDE ribbon cables. LOL

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Dumples · Post by **Dumples** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:46 pm

Red Squirrel wrote:reminds me of Compaq, or Dell, with their propiatary IDE ribbon cables. LOL

They weren't proprietary, they just forced you to use Cable Select. They had a single wire in them snipped to force the order drives had to be on the cable.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:48 pm

Actually think I'm thinking of something else, was not for IDE, but it was for the front buttons/leds and such, it used this ribbon cable that was irreplacable if it got damaged. I remember having fun trying to track one of those down at one time.

Then there's IBM. I won't even go there.

Took me 30 minutes to figure out how to turn one of those on.

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Hypntick · Post by **Hypntick** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:00 pm

that is why you'll never see me buy a prebuilt computer, hell if I could build the car myself I would but i'm not quite that mechanically inclined

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:11 pm

Yeah I never buy prebuilt when it comes to PCs. Where I work we can get huge specials through Dell, but only way I'd do that is if I was buying a rackmount server.

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:28 pm

Red Squirrel wrote:Then there's IBM. I won't even go there.

Took me 30 minutes to figure out how to turn one of those on.

That's because you only ever have to turn it on once

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