Friends,
Yes, the Jeep Grand Livingroom is kaput at the moment, but that’s not the only piece of high technology that had surrendered over the last month. My old 4th generation iPod got cooked in the glovebox of the tiny racecar. When a hard drive says “whirr-click-whirr-click-whirr-click” you know it’s a goner. After my failed attempts at repairs on the Jeep, I broke in to the iPod, which should have been a terrible idea, but I threw a new hard drive and battery in the thing and it actually works now.
By the way, be really careful with the headphone connector. Time taken ruining the tiny wires on the motherboard while straightening them will ruin your day.
– bob
P.S. Why not get another iPod instead of shell out 2/3 of that price for parts? Easy. The old one is the last iPod model that syncs over Firewire and it works with my old notebook.