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When I got my car it came with a Pioneer double DIN unit. The only feature I liked about it was that it would pair with my phone and pull my music from it. Unfortunately I couldn't make it pair. It turned out to be because the idiot switch that prevents you from watching DVDs on the road was never hooked up.
Long story short, I had to pull my unit out. My friend suggested that I just drop into Car Toys and ask about the tools because they come in the box with every stereo. He did it once and they just gave them to him. Well I dropped in and asked and they told me flat out that they don't give those away and that the techs tools cost $100, and that they don't sell them to the public.
Out the door I went to Best Buy. I wandered around the car stereo section looking for the tools. The salesman asked what I was looking for and when I told him he said "just pull your car around back and I'll pull it for you".
Zero cost. I wired in a switch that allows me to fake the parking brake action (Apparently the Porsche parking brake switch isn't a simple binary switch, so wiring into the brake switch isn't an option).
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