The insurance deductible is too high to replace the stereos. They weren't fancy stereos and I wanted it that way to avoid this! Both were a bit more than $100. A Sony in the Contour and a Pioneer in the Satty.
The broken glass had a different deductible so that is all I claimed and fixed everything else myself. A cell phone and a load of CDs between the two cars were stolen too.
The funniest part (to me) is that they stole the tote bag for my snow chains - but not the chains. Just needed a bag to put everything into I guess.
The Contour has an alarm but both cars park underground beneath our own apartment complex. Car alarms go off when bass exhaust drives by and all three floors hear it through the A/C ducts so I've been foregoing arming mine at night so as not to be annoying. Well, from now on my car will join the chorus. And I'm back to removing the faceplate at night.
I'll eventually get a new stereo for the Contour as the replacement stereo is a Sony tape deck. It works just fine and controls the CD changer, but really, I don't have tapes anymore! The Satty can wait until summer and it will get a new stereo. The stock unit is lame.
