Nope, I haven't owned one of those in many years. I just used a Sony picture because that was the first one on Google. You should try the auto-reverse thing if you haven't yet. I recall that being useful sometimes.

dont have the autoreverse disable button in the car. if i try changing sides it makes a loud grinding noise which leads me to think that it would only work in one direction.

I know it's a little late considering today is the day after you have left... but I have found that FM modulators work very well (NO not FM transmitters, there's a difference). They are very simple to install... it's just a power and a ground wire that you need to tap into your radio connections, and then there is an antenna input and output. It cuts the radio signal off and feeds it's own signal into the radio through the antenna connection. I've put like 5 of these in for friends and family and have never heard any hiss. They are $30 or so online. Just my 2 cents

I know you're only trying to be helpful, but the original post was posted on 11 November, 2011. Meaning the 24th was referring to Nov 24, 2011

I agree on intent to be helpful. I would suggest to the newb that they read and digest their welcome PM. Necro-bumping threads seems to be a good way for a newb to invoke das banstick...