My car got F'ed up last friday (the entire center console was smashed, rear seat bent all to hell... they tried to get into the trunk by removing the seat back... f uckers). Well I got the brilliant idea on the way back from State Farm today that when I install my new deck, it would be frickin' cool to camoflage it somehow with the faceplate from my Bose system.

Has anyone done something like this?
Any other ideas?

I put this here because it's much higher traffic than the audio forum, but I'm posting it there too, so don't say it, okay?

Thanks

 

someone on this board has this setup, but i forget who. belongs to some car club.

 

A lot of people have done this. You have to mount the HU recessed a little bit to create enough clearance for the fake faceplate. Then you just acquire an old Bose HU and remove the face. If you want to get really creative, you can put a backing onto the buttons so that the fake faceplate still feels real to the touch. And some people, when using a stock HU faceplate that has a cassette player, have cut a cassette tape in half and glued it into the slot sticking out half way, for more realism.