I just bought the CD deck unit..and for whatever reason I assumed it was a "face-off". After looking at the unit (haven't installed yet) and looking at the owner's manual...it's NOT....there are some silly security stickers and disabling feature ....like the clucka who breaks my window is going to be reading stickers or even the brand of the CD player....
...that aside the unit looks tight...BUT....I stay in Chicago so I feel like I pretty much don't have a choice but to return it....but so tempted to install it...
I'm mostly venting but woulf still appreaciate any feedback...
Sonso, you know that deck will not work if stolen, unless the person knows what cd you have it set up with. Thats why it isn't a detatchable face. Most people leave the face plate in the car, and most theives know this. So eclipse came out with the CD security feature. If your really worried about it, make a false panel to go over it, so people can't see it if they look in your car.
Bye the way, that is a very nice deck. A few people I know are running that model, and I am running the 2005 version. They have excelent SQ, and are all around well made decks.
The Crackhead down the street just sees a full CD player. He doesnt know the special security features. Even with stickers around it hell he may not be able to read...
My friend had a $50 dollar no name deck that looked like some stock CD player, it was so horrible no one thought it would be a problem, and a crack head still broke in his car...in certain areas, your deck won't last a week parked outside...
That aside....thanks for the input as I was really frustrated....i've had my car broken into before....but since the deck is such a work of art I am going to try and make a fake cover....
If you can afford $600 head unit, you can afford an alarm.
there are also other methods you can take to further security, such as mounting the radio in a non-stock location, and using a hide-away device from a company like BlitzSafe that retracts the entire head unit behind a blank plate when you turn off the car.
The Eclipse security design is excellent since removeable faces and pull-outs invariably end up in the glove box, center console, under a deat, or in the trunk anyway which makes it even easier to steal.
If you want real security, park somewhere better, like in a garage, or don't put expensive things in something as easy to break into as a car.
I've lived in the hood my entire life (minus years down at college)...I know these cats
The way cluckas, cats that steal, the stick up game, (the murder game also as a matter of fact) etc. is nothing new to me...nothing new...needless to say no one here wants to hear about that and I know you all don't care
I can do nothing but laugh at many of your statements Kiki
...trust me, a security system ain't gonna do 'ish (got one already anyway), "park in a garage" is so laughable I can only address that statement in that way...I'm south side Chicago..stop playing...
as I already admitted I was venting...
minus the futile statements, sincere thanks for the real advice.....and the tons of good advice you've given me in the past....
you didn't buy it retail then. you probably got it usedI'm guessing? Clearance sale somewhere?
I grew up and worked doing car audio in DC, so don't tell me about not understanding what it's like in an inner city. DC at the time I was there was the "murder capitol of the world." I parked my car on the street every night, with huge ORION and ALPINE and PPI stickers all over it and nobody screwed with it. A couple times I came out in the morning to a broken window in the years I had the car, but nothing was ever stripped out of the car, and the alarm let me know something was up any time it went off, so it served plenty of use. The window tint held the glass in place after it was shot, so it never scattered over the inside of the car. Probably why nobody tried any harder to get into it, along with the door locks being replaced so you had to know where the button was to release the doors from inside or out.
The real problem here is that you didn't bother to do any research before getting the head unit, or you'd have known exactly what the security feature was. Instead, you assumed, or just didn't bother to look. That's your own fault to be blunt. sorry.
I gave you several options that were perfectly viable as well. If you don't want everything stolen, don't advertise it. Don't bling out your car, tint your windows, put stickers on it, rims, etc.. don't play the system within about 10 blocks of your residence, and don't brag about it or show it off. Don't expose the system and do a stealth install.
That'll solve 95% of the attempts on your belongings right there. An alarm that uses a glass breakage mic instead of a shock sensor, along with doors, hood, and trunk pins and a good pager system will handle any other amateurs. A good full coverage insurance policy will cover the professionals.
had to edit...perhaps i was still venting when I originally wrote this...
...nothing new to say about the hood, I'd only be re-writing what I wrote before....NOTHING new to me...again...NOTHING new to me...I don't care if you stayed on my block now or came up in south shore with me...come on, we are talking hypes here...
I WAS VENTING!!!...most important point of my post...as written..I was VENTING....I refer you to my previous posts
all I was saying in my original reply to you is that I know what's up and I sincerely thanked you for the useful advice (NO sarcasm)...I plan to make some sort of "fake cover"....
...all the theorizing on what cluckas will do is FUNNY and that's part of what is funny to me...I don't even address it past that...there's nothing for me to say or prove or theorize...all I could possibly offfer is come my way....don't matter if you're in LA, Humbolt park, or N.O.....ain't no one telling me different than what I seen with my own two...
on another note, whoever was trying to shoot out windows (needless to say it wasn't a clucka) is either silly, an amateur/ignorant, or just stupid....if they can't just smash the window and it's that serious to be shooting your window (unless they are scary {i.e. scared to cnfront you} and just wanted to scare you...if that makes sense), they should've just stuck you up/ jacked you...PLEASE no stories about cluckas who own guns, I them too...nothing new to me
i already rapped with some cats my way, we know what's up over here...PLEASE no one send me no 'ish about people I holler at getting at me...AGAIN, I know what's up
$300 at eBay....i know a lot of cats don't F wit ebay...but there are still a # of them left at the same price...and the deck is legit
...again....thank you for the useful advise....
the rest of this particular post is all foolish so feel free to overlook it----->
I am not in any disbelief regarding your story, and I know all about when your parts were the murder capitol...and perhaps you know who took on that infamous title afterwards and still contending for it now...and by now you know that I know the cats/f with the cats that give these parts that title...but if it were some cats out here that wanted your stuff bad enough to shoot your windows...they'd have it...PERIOD...
....like the clucka 
who breaks my window is going to be reading stickers or even the brand of the CD player....
