I am lazy
After writing that last post about the minivan and wanting a radio that works, I realized that I had never pulled the radio out of our current car and checked out it's wiring. Well I did it later that day. It was a verifiable rats nest back there. I rewired the power distribution and now the radio works fine. Imagine if I had done that on the day after I got the thing instead of waiting for months. We could have had tunes for a long time now.
I wish I wasn't so
lazy.