DIY Car radio replacement

Where I live there is always a chance that your car radio will get stolen and it happened to me already for a view times.
Unfortunately its not cheap to restore the damage on your car after that.
For this car radio manufacturers have made a removable front on there car radio's with the idea that the radio has no value without them.
This would then prevent that the radio will be stolen.
But unfortunately after a while the contacts between the radio and removable front get bad.
Then, every time you want to use your radio,you find yourself struggling to get it working the way it suppose to.
This is a problem I found with all car radios I had in the past.
Then the features that takes over you radio trough the radio ether.
At one moment you are listening to a song from a USB stick, the other moment you music is being stopped because a “important announcement” is being made on the radio.
I do not like that very much.
Also I do not even listen to radio. I only listen to mp3 from