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I just hate the looks of like 99% of aftermarket car stereos. They look like a late 90's winamp skin. Some sort of outlandish artistic vision of the future with tiny, almost unusable buttons. The one I got had a tiny row of buttons but I liked that it had a big knob for changing the radio...

Welp, it lasted less than a month. 😆 Worked fine yesterday AM. Went to drive a couple hours later and nothing. Radio fuse is fine, power is making it to the unit, just nothing once it gets there. Good news is the return window for it is 1 month, so I'm gonna pull it today and send it back...

My dad has a 97 that has the plastic catch tab, so you're not crazy 😁

To be fair, my Jeep's manufacture date is closer to the 80s than it is to today. 😁

Oh and it also doesn't have a dimmer. Only driven at night once with it installed, but it wasn't too bright.

It claims 60w x 4. When I bought the Jeep last week, the aftermarket stereo that was installed stayed on constantly. PO would just remove the faceplate after stopping to turn it off. I assumed he'd accidentally switched the constant hot with the ignition wire. So I knew I was going to need to...

I bought this bad boy for $20 off Amazon 😂

Well I'll be...just found that little lever under the front next to the slide bar. Never knew it was there! I learn something new on here every day! Lever on the back does not make it slide or tumble, but front does. I'll investigate further later and see if it needs some work. Here's a picture...

The driver side seatback tilt is mostly useless. You can kinda reach behind the seat after doing it, but it's still pretty tight when the seat is slid all the way back (which it seems like it is for most people) My strap is broken but I probably won't fix it because I never use it.

Yep, and it makes it lean forward, but not slide or tilt. See pictures below

I've owned a '97, a '98 and an '01. On all 3 the driver side seatback leaned forward using the strap or the lever behind the seat, but would not slide or tilt forward using that. You could slide it only using the bar underneath the front of the seat. On the passenger side it would lean the...

I always assumed the driver side didn't fold and tumble because the steering wheel was in the way. Did they make some that did?

Mine (early '98) was just like yours @SSTJ. So it must have changed at some point. Mine looked like the black wire here:

I just happened to replace PO stereo wiring on Saturday. The ground for the stereo (at least on my '98) goes toward the passenger side, but not very far. Small black wire with "ground" written on the side. Bought this Jeep last week and the stereo stayed on constantly unless you took the...

Thanks for the help @Wildman and @L J ! We'll see how it goes. Based on the pictures, it's a pretty clean and mostly stock TJ, so I was surprised to see that sticker. Seemed like an odd thing to change. I had a '01 4cyl a few years ago, but wasn't driving it much at all while my sons were...