Easily beaten by a boom box taped to the dashboard completely blocking the passengers view (seen it)

Does it play HD/DVD's?

That if absolutely, no doubt, f-ing awesome! God... The only thing that could beat this is a six-CD stereo made by the same guy. :D

...you know, I still have a cassette player in my car...

...where's my box of spare parts?

Wow, that's actually pretty awesome. I never thought of this working, but it makes sense.

Actually, if I have this in my car a thief should give me five bucks and call it a day. He'll know that I need it.

I like it. Sort of thing I'd do myself.

I guess an iPod mini-jacked instead of a powered CD-ROM is just illogical to this person...

High classing it with 52x speeds!

Back in college I was too poor to buy a cd player for up at school, but I happened to have a spare PSU and CD-Rom Drive. Kinda felt like an 8-Track though with the three buttons.

Hey, it's a Pioneer!

WANT!

And to think this is better than my first car cd-player.. it would randomly eject cd's in the middle of a song; occasionally play damaged disks that were scratched to hell, but not play good disks; you could insert your favorite non-lesbian rock album and it would play Melissa Etheridge...

That cd-player was pure evil... I would rather have this safer "ghetto" version that probably works and won't keep asking for the soul of my firstborn while I'm trying to listen to Jim Croce.

I give them an A+.

The sponge is really what makes the mod, though. I mean, not only is his blazingly fast CD snugly fit into the dash, but it's also protected against shock *and* moisture!

Brilliant!

@liveinvt: If he could afford one of those he could have afforded a regular HU.

The difference is that using duct tape to fix a window is completely obvious and not very effective. What this person has done is clever, inexpensive (probably free) and, though simplistic, totally functional. The two are not even in the same league.

ow well, atleast it still looks functional.

pimp!

What I want to know is, what do you do if you liked the previous song, and wanna play it again?

how the fuck do you control that thing? is it just play/pause and eject? (I'm hoping there's a volume dial somewhere at least)

I'm soooooooooo sorry everyone i just gotta post this video because this is what pops into my head whenever someone says "Ghetto"

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Not as ghetto as a former coworker of mine. He had a full mini-tower in the back of his SUV that he used as an mp3 player.

mkII VW FTW!!!!

One man's ghetto is another man's Gold Coast. I've been there. And you know his girlfriend said, "At least use the *green* sponge."

Screw it, that's awesome. Although the cord from the headphone jack has to plug in to something. I'd love to see what he's using to amplify that signal.

Is this the same guy who strapped the air conditioner to his sunroof? LOL!

it works, that's all that matters. although a slot loaded one would look nicer.

...props!!

@yardameus: You wait for the CD to repeat, like God intended.

That's actually a very common solution here in the Philippines. Jeepney drivers often use basic PC CD-ROM drives to play music. Some jeepneys even use PC cooling fans up front for the driver and passengers.

@Nintenboy01: Still won't convince Manong Ernie from replacing his 8-track and BeeGees.

i love it! none of that bright lcd crazyness of my installed-prior-to-owning jvc unit. just have to work on the application a bit

@wetworker: Na, then what would he use as a cupholder?

is that an 87 or 88 VW Jetta?

@Mayor McRib: I actually thought about doing that once when I blew out the stereo in my car...

Aahhh... memories.

This is embarrasing, but I actually have a similar setup in my daihatsu mira back in 1998. I just got my license and my parents refused to install a stereo in the 660cc 4 speed manual beater car. So I used a Sony 8X Cdrom ripped from my old computer and some crappy $10 (you know it's crappy because it cost $10 back in 1998) computer speaker and uses duct tape to stick it on the dash. Voila, instant stereo.

BTW, I've come a long way since 1998. Now my car spots a $10000 alpine-Rsaudio setup.

It does show resourcefulness.

I would have hacked into the rear audio connections, but whatever.
Waitaminute...I wouldn't have done this at all!

(whew)

this great, what a perfect solution. and it's an anti-theft device as well.

@EvilPaul:
I miss my MK II Golf. The best $800 car I ever drove.

@tr:
Either an 87 - 92 Jetta, an 86 - 92 Golf, or a Corrado. I don't know if that dash was used in the Passat

I've done this. I built it into a padded case, and using the 12+ voltage, it works. I had it running to a cassette adaptor, not directly mounted.

The things are dirt cheap $1-$5 used at a computer store, no need to read data.

The fancy version is to get a CD drive with a remote control.

My current one is a bit fancier, I spent $10 for a newer cassette deck that thinks my iPod is a CD changer. No wires hanging out the dash, and being a factory cassette deck, anti-theftish.

Looks like a Mk2 Jetta without A/C and with a foglight switch from the junkyard for the CD power. 1988-92, german made.

No seat belt warning light, so maybe Canadian. Automatic, perhaps, since there's no tach. Quite the base model.

I'm still driving my 1990 model. Hence my encyclopedic knowledge of obscure VW dash trivia :)

@B1663R:
:) It reminds me of this version...

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The jeepneys here in the philippines use the same kind of cd-rom as pictured above. they're not very reliable though 'cause they tend to skip tracks when there are humps on the road.

@bertoo1960: Really? Iv never seen Jeepneys that even had soundsystems in them here in Cebu

I should start riding jeppneys mor often. hhaha

I used to have a 78' Ford T-bird with an 8-track. I used an 8-track to cassette adapter, then used a cassette to cd-player adapter to get my music. Sad :(

He could at least have put some effort into it and located a black faceplate and use a darker shade sponge. This is a slap in the face to modders everywhere......

@nintendoboy01

Maybe you should also explain what a "jeepney". People who have never been to the Philippines or seen a picture of one would definitely not know about is.

Para bossing.....

oh and about the skippng to the next song problem. Most CD players you just need to press the play button again to skip to the next song.

taxis here in egypt have these jerry-rigged decks more often than real car cd players. Of course nowadays, what with music being considered haram by half the people here, they mostly just use 'em to play Quran...

I hate to admit it, but I've done worse myself. I've got a 13-year old Honda that has never had any audio components in it, ever... no speakers, no wiring, no antenna, nothing. So I bought an inexpensive set of 2.1 computer speakers and a car AC converter, adhered the speakers to the dash and stowed the subwoofer behind the driver's seat, plugged in my mp3 player and voila! Instant white-trash stereo. And it almost manages to drown out the sound of the AC converter!

I see the ghetto charm in this mod. It goes right up there with air conditioner units in the passenger window. It's not that it's ugly. It's that it's ugly and it works. It might not impress the ladies, but it beats that old 8-track any day of the week. And while yes if I it were up to me I'd work on making it a little less grotesque.

I think it's a VW Fox...definitely not a Jetta (ah, my beloved underpowered "Wagen")

wonder if the voltage/amp is right for that cd-rom....

the ral question is . . ."CAN IT PLAY CRISYS!"

That's from Serbia.
Gypsy hacks.

@Samifumi: wonderful.
kudos sir.

TECH NOTE:
A SIMPLE HOT KNIFE MOD TO THE TRAY WILL MAKE IT COMPATIBLE WITH 32 OZ. AND EVEN 48 OZ.CUPS.

THERE IS ALSO AN ANALOG OUTPUT JACK ON THE BACK OF THE DECK IF YOU CAN'T SPARE A HEADPHONE JACK FOR THE COOL FRONT HOOKUP EFFECT.

FIND A SET OF 12V CREATIVE LABS SPEAKERS WITH A VOLUME KNOB AND ROCK THE NIGHT AWAY.

THE FUTURE IS NOW.