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Skriven 2010-05-03 22:41:07 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till en text av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Connectability
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Hello Robert,

On Saturday May 01 2010 08:22, you wrote to me:

 RB> My wife recently backed into a camper and broke the left rear light on
 RB> her car (the big plastic parts that generally cost a fortune to
[..]
 RB> days later. Replaced the plastic myself, car fixed. If I had gone to a
 RB> garage - or worse to Opel (it's an Opel Agila) -

I know, it was parked in my drive way last year. ;-)

 RB> I expect the bill would have been more like EUR 120.

Quit possible.

 RB> So is is not only convenient to shop on the Internet, you can also
 RB> save a great deal of money that way.

Indeed.

But not just to buy things, it is also very convenenient for obtaining
information that used to be a lot harder to get.

In the old days, dismounting a car radio was easy. One could SEE the screws.
Just unscrew it. Five minutes work. Today it takes less than 10 seconds to
dismount the radio from my Renault. *IF* you know how to do it. The procedure
is far from obvious and of course those things are not in the manual.

Ten minutes of searching the InterNet found me the answer. I cut a tool
consisting of some metal sheet 9.5 x 60 x 0.5 mm. Insert it in a tiny little
slot on the bottom left, hardly visible if you do not know what you are looking
for. Push it to the left to release the catch. Do the same on the right side
and you can pull the radio out.

I took it out because I wanted to mount an indicator light on the dashboard for
the surge brake indicator of the caravan. Above the radio looked like a good
place. Unfortunately it turned out that it wasn't. Not enough room. So I will
just mount it below the radio. But it is good to know how to dismount the radio
anyway.

 RB> So I can agree with you here wholeheartedly: the Internet today is
 RB> what the telephone was yesterday.

Absolutely. Once you have it and are used to it, it becomes almost
indispensable.


Cheers, Michiel

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