Hooking up iPod to Car

[Sauro]

Anyone ever try this? If so, how?

 

[CombatChuk]

There's a FM transmitter for the Ipod that would have you tune on a specific frequency to listen to your ipod. IIRC

 

[essasin]

if you have an auxillary output on your car deck you could use that, i think there is a tutorial that i ran into in car forums... the guy hooked up an ipod through aux using his stock setup in BMW M3 think it was 03 BMW Let me try to find it and ill post it up if i can find it

 

[zodder]

Check out the iPod Lounge forums. I've seen a lot of stuff posted in there about this.

 

Check out my ipod install. No tape deck required. Pictures there too.

http://www.cougarnuts.com/board/showthread.php?t=11452

 

[imported_chrisbtx]

Transpod Ipod Receiver

I got that for my brother and he loves it.

Definitely recommended. The coolest thing is that you can set it to ANY of the FM frequencies your radio can pick up, instead of just 88.7 or 88.9 or something like most of the other tranceivers offer.

 

[zodder]

Is that just for 3rd gen iPods? I have a 2nd gen and would love to have one of those.

 

[imported_chrisbtx]

AFAIK it works with the 2nd gens also.

 

[bluntman]

For better sound quality, look into hardwiring (AUX in or at the very least FM modulation) your iPod to your car's stereo.

 

[lucrioual]

A friend of mine has the fm transmitter, not the greatest thing around
The sound quality is decent. Just get a one of the tape deck feed ones, not sure where you can get them though

 

[artemicion]

Originally posted by: essasin
if you have an auxillary output on your car deck you could use that, i think there is a tutorial that i ran into in car forums... the guy hooked up an ipod through aux using his stock setup in BMW M3 think it was 03 BMW Let me try to find it and ill post it up if i can find it

are you sure it wasn't a new bmw? the new bmws come with ipod docks.

 

[OMG1Penguin]

A lot of aftermarket decks have either an RCA aux in, or a proprietary aux in cable. I had to buy a cable (from crutchfields) for my alpine to accept RCA originally, but my XM tuner has RCA inputs too.

 

[mastarecoil]

http://forums.tccoa.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43551

 

[torpid]

Depending on your car, you may be able to use a blitzsafe adapter or similar.