Good reasons! Honestly, my original reason for creating the dummy face plate was to fool the dealership into thinking I hadn't messed with the "precious electrical system" for fear of voiding my sweet 100k mile warranty.

Hoping to still finish in second place with the dummy face plate idea, I spent about 2 hours online last night before finding a GREAT website of salvage places all over the country that listed and categroized their parts. I got about 150 hits for Volvo SC-816 radios and sent out about 15 e-mails to see if anyone had a dead one. I don't have the link to the site offhand but when I go home, I'll post it. It'll let you all know if that service connects me with a dead radio or not.