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General => Car audio => Topic started by: GTiMK5 on 09 March 2005, 10:12
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Hi all,
Just joined the site.
I have an IPOD mini and have a Dension ICE link IPOD plus fitted into my car. Highly reccomend it, much better than the type that plugs into your tape deck (if you even have one). Its a neat bit of kit, looks cool and costs 140 ish quid and 40 quid to install by unicar. More info on http://www.ipodmycar.com I dont work for them, just impressed with the kit.
The ice>Link Plus plays high quality music from your iPod through your existing car entertainment system's CD changer port. There is no longer a need for cassette adapters, cigarette lighter chargers or bulky FM transmitters. You can start enjoying crisp, clean CD quality music with charging and iPod control from your exisitng car entertainment system. Imagine having access to over 10,000 MP3s at the touch of a button. The sleek design of the ice>link cradle will compliment most vehicle interiors as if it were offered form the factory.
When used wth compatible vehicle entertaiment systems, the ice>Link Plus starts and stops the iPod as you enter and exit CD changer mode on your car's entertainment system. Fast Forward, Rewind, Search and seek commands are passed to the iPod also - this is really great for vehicles with entertaiment controls. You can also select your first five playlists by selecting disk numbers 1-5 on your radio.
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That is a good bit of kit.
i don't have an ipod, it's a create version of it, they're a lot cheaper and have better soound quality.. but still ipods are easier to use.... anyway.
basicly i just thought i would say that if you want to do the same sort of thing then you can buy an RCA cable that goes in to a 3.5mm headphone end so that you can connect it to the CD input on your stereo... this cost me ?25 for a decent one thats sold for Ipods but you can get ones as good for ?10. Then i got an adapter that goes in to the unilink part which is where the CD changer is controlled from, this was ?30... thats a lot less... so you spend betwee ?40 and ?55...
about ?100 less.....
i'm not knocking the other thing as it controlls Ipods from the head unit, but if you can cope without that then that's ?100 to spend on that set of speakers you wanted.
Josh
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Alpine's KCA-420i interface will let you connect your 'pod to the headunit and the track names will come up on the headunit. also you can control it just like a cd.
Kenwood are just about to release a similar system for their range of headunits.
Creative Zen are a lot more reliable than apple's 'pod, but there won't be an interface like the apple one for car audio for a while. I spoke to James @ Kenwood this week regarding this and he said the ipod was the only one they'd be making given the sales in the UK last year of the ipod.
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Dizzie.. do you work in some part of the car audio industry? you seem to know a lot about it and obviously a few ppl as well..
just wondered as i'd like to know if its enjoyable, lol, better than asda i would expect.
josh
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LOL, yeah I work for Sextons in Cardiff :cool:
It's great. I love the job. It's only a 5 min walk from my flat. I get up at 8.50am :grin:
Have a read of the haynes ICE manual. There's loads of info on every asspect of ICE. Well worth it.
If you haven't got a Alpine or Kenwood system you can always use an AUX input. you'll just have to contorl the tunes from the ipod instead of the headunit.
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right being a bit of an anything hi-tech numpty, i saw an article on a car that didn`t have a head unit and ran an ipod instead now i quite fancy having a set up like this but what do i need? and how much is it going to cost me?
c`mon dizzy sort me out please
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if you haven't got a headunit that actually supports the ipod interfaces you can run one through the AUX input on your h/u. if you haven't got an AUX input then you can get a FM modulator which basically makes a mini radio station inside your car, but these are prone to interfearance unless you get the digital ones that are close to the £100 mark, but the quality is a lot better.
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sorry dizzy you`ve half baffled me, can i get an ipod that will run without a head unit and if yes how much
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any ipod will run without a headunit. I thought you wanted it to play through your car speakers?
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so you need a head unit to run an ipod through your speakers then, sorry for all these questions dizzie but a bit thick wwhen it comes to technical stuff
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obviously. unless you ran the ipod straight to your amps lol
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hey dizzie,if i pop in to sextons in cardiff,you couldn't sort me out a sub and amp could you for the cab?i have all my ice done at sextons in swansea with graham and justin. :wink:
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pop into swansea shop. we own them both :grin:
tell them i sent you and they'll sort you out dude
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HI
I have also just joined the site, and am looking for advice on the ipod situation. I am about to get a Mkv golf gt Tdi as a company car and want to use my ipod. The car will come with the standard single disk head unit. My itrip was uselss in the demo car i had, does anyone know if the cables mentioned below will work with the single disk VW head unit?
Thanks for your help
Ad :smiley:
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you'd have to go down the FM modulator path if you use the standard headunit. There isn't a AUX input to use
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right being a bit of an anything hi-tech numpty, i saw an article on a car that didn`t have a head unit and ran an ipod instead now i quite fancy having a set up like this but what do i need? and how much is it going to cost me?
c`mon dizzy sort me out please
I think i know what you mean mate. When i was a poor student i didnt have a head unit and just used a diskman sat on the floor with velcro. I had it linked directly to the amp. It worked very well and was also very cheap! You do need a system powered by an amp to do it this way though.
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Does anyone know if theRCD 500 unit which is an upgrade on the Mark 5 GTI has an AUX input (ie the unit with the built in 6 disc changer in the dash) if so where can I buy the cable to connect my iPOD ?
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I dont' think it does, but I could be wrong.
Not many factory units have aux inputs.
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Thanks for replying dizzy and I'm sure you know alot more about these things than I do but it is possible according to the manual to connect an external CD auto-changer to the main unit(altho there is already a built in 6 disc changer) and there is also available as a dealer fit option an MP3 player which is stored in the boot ( very expensive) . I was thinking it surely must be possible to plug the iPod into the same input port as these or is it not as simple as that ?
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no idea dude. I haven't played with one sorry.
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How about an i-trip? thy're bout £20inc postage from e-bay they transmit signals like a radio from your ipod - i can link mine up and tune 3 car radio's in and we can all listen to my ipod when off driving to the coast for the evenin.
They're illegal to sue in this country - but not illegal to own!
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hi all just to add my 2 pence worth it was my birthday last week yippee(turned 29) :cry: but anyway got me an ipod and loving it so anyways had spare cash and i already own an alpin cda9847r HU with ipod compatibilty just needed the adapter for ipod which is the KCA-420i and i tell you what everytime i get in the car i lock my ipod away in the glove box obviously connected to the adapter and never need to touch the ipod again everything the ipod can do can be accessed from the HU great bit of kit highly reccomend it
if you cant afford it rob someone you wont be dissapointed
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Hi,
I have just got a Golf MK4 GTI and am starting to think about how to attach my IPOD to the stereo.
In my old cars I have used a tape adapter and a iTrip. The iTrip is OK is you are only doing short distances but I tend to drive the lenght of the country a lot so I have to retune every so often to keep interference from other radio stations to a minimum.
I haven't done a lot of digging around on this yet but I think the standard stereo in the Golf is a Blaupunkt unit. Which may be able to take a Blaupunkt AUX lead directly into the back. eg: http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2191&cadid=3ff97c6726706c8a257de41b3794afc1 (http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2191&cadid=3ff97c6726706c8a257de41b3794afc1) or if that doesn't work http://makeashorterlink.com/?A4C123DAB
I am prepaired for people to shout me down on this, but it would be a very easy and cheep solution. I know that it isn't as an elegent solution as the fully integrated ones but it would be a fraction of the price.
Any comments on if this will work or not?