Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Nanci Schwartz - Robber Barons 1 / 2 / 3

Audiobook review.

3 books by a debuting author. The series contains three books, and they're... cheap. Yeah. Literally, I mean. (Discounted on Amazon.)

Unfortunately, the price is somewhat a reflection of the quality of the proofreading. Someone should have given some feedback to the author, and that clearly didn't happen.

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Replace Head Unit in an MX-5 NC2 (2011) - 5. Installing the Atoto and Accessories

Car / MX-5 / Radio.

I opted to take out the Bose head unit from my MX-5 (Miata) and replace it with an Atoto. These are my trials and tribulations getting the Atoto unit to work... (There weren't many, to be fair, except for that rotten security bolt.)

Sunday, May 5, 2024

Broken links!

Due to a variety of reasons (most of those boiling down to me being stupid) I had (and still have!) to re-create a number of posts. I'm updating bit by bit all the broken links, but that's taking some intensive manual labor, so several links might still be broken for the upcoming weeks / months / years 😕

My apologies.

(I'll keep moving this post around until most of the links have been repaired. Getting closer...)

Replace Head Unit in an MX-5 NC2 (2011) - 3. Wiring Diagrams

Car / MX-5 / Radio.

When possible I try to understand what I'm doing, and why. That doesn't always work out 😏 but at least I try 😁

This is my first radio install in... well... thirty years? So I grabbed all the diagrams I could find, and tried to understand when I needed SWCs and LOCs, and when not.

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Replace Head Unit in an MX-5 NC2 (2011) - 2. Remove Old Head Unit

Car / MX-5 / Radio.

There are many instructional (?) videos on the Internet that show you how to remove and install a new head unit in an MX-5 NC (aka Miata MK3.5 etc.). 

Some of those videos are pretty good, many others are terrible and awful 😏 so I decided to write this post as a kind of 'addendum', and answer the questions the videos did not. Obviously this is limited to my own setup!