From: eichler2@comcastsucks.net   
      
   On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 04:36:39 -0700 (PDT), The old geezer   
    wrote:   
      
   >Not for nothing, but how much would it cost 'em to put a cd player   
   >in the car. Or at least as an option?  They still put radios in cars!   
      
   For what it's worth, my wife's new car is a 2019 Prius.  She bought it   
   because it has every bell and whistle Toyta puts in a car, and it was   
   $5000 off because it's last year's model and they were looking to get   
   it off the lot.  But when we asked if putting a CD player in it was   
   even an option, the dealership said they absolutely couldn't do it,   
   and they'd be surprised if a third party could install one because of   
   the big navigation/control screen that takes up most of the dashboard.   
      
   The car has XM satellite radio (the free trial runs out in a couple   
   months), regular radio, an aux in port and bluetooth.  The bluetooth   
   is...well, to be honest it's pretty shitty.  It's always a fight to   
   get it to hook up to my phone or her MP3 player, and it tends to keep   
   freezing up.  The only solution we've found is to pull over (you can't   
   change the settings while the car is moving, even if you're the   
   passenger), delete the device from the car's bluetooth settings and   
   the car from the device's settings then re-add everything from   
   scratch.  It's a huge pain.  Kind of amusing though because my wife   
   entered the name of her car as "Miss Moneypenny" in her bluetooth   
   system, so I get a notification that pops up on my phone and says   
   "Miss Moneypenny wants to pair with you."   
      
   Ironically, my 2016 Prius (one of the last models they made that still   
   had a CD player) has bluetooth that works flawlessly.  And I rarely   
   use it because I just keep CDs in my car to listen to.   
      
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