ipod soluitons for Exige

dave h s · Post by **dave h s** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:56 pm

Hi - has anyone got any experiences of plumming in nano ipod's to car stereo's? I am thinking of either going with a transmitter type solution although I have heard some very varied reports as to how effective they are and my current radio reception is AWFUL...not sure if this is gd news for an FM transmitter or not!

Anyway - other option is to buy a new stereo with perhaps a front USB port or trying to pull wires from behind the stereo and feed them to a cunning point in the car that i can reach from the drivers seat?? Anyone tried this?

Cheers

graeme · Post by **graeme** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 3:05 pm

If you go for a new head unit, Pioneer do a great ipod adapter for Pioneer head units which allows you to put the connector in the glovebox (or on the tray in the Exige) and control the ipod menus through the head unit. Works very well, and charges the ipod. The adapter is £70.

http://www.pioneer.co.uk/uk/products/25 ... index.html

jj · Post by jj » Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:25 pm

If you have the Blaupunkt DAB stereo you can buy a lead from http://www.bluespot.co.uk that plugs straight in as the AUX input, I think mine was about £6.

mrbennybennett · Post by **mrbennybennett** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:00 pm

jj wrote:If you have the Blaupunkt DAB stereo you can buy a lead from http://www.bluespot.co.uk that plugs straight in as the AUX input, I think mine was about £6.

Cant go wrong at only £6 !

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:25 pm

thats what i had in my 111r - the fm transmitter will be pretty dodgy for an Exige

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:59 pm

Get Andy to quote you for one of these

http://www.scottishelises.com/phpbb/vie ... ht=dension

jj · Post by jj » Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:26 pm

Sanjoy, have you seen anything else on the net about that Parrot one that the iPod goes inside?

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:50 pm

jj wrote:Sanjoy, have you seen anything else on the net about that Parrot one that the iPod goes inside?

Nufink since I posted it. I liked that solution ALOT it covered so many bases.

Actually Dave buy one of them and review it for the team.

HTH.

jj · Post by jj » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:20 pm

I read they were going to be £150 - at that price I`ll definately be having one, as the Alpine CD player I have in the exige is so old skool it doesnt even play mp3 cds.

dave h s · Post by **dave h s** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:58 pm

http://www.parrotshopping.com/uk/p_parr ... x?i=151092

or even better ....this although its not for sale yet

http://autogossip.blogspot.com/2008/01/ ... -made.html

this is an older one but doesnt seem to have the ipod slot ;-(

http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/parrot- ... -5651.html

craigs135s · Post by **craigs135s** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:18 pm

jj wrote:I read they were going to be £150 - at that price I`ll definately be having one, as the Alpine CD player I have in the exige is so old skool it doesnt even play mp3 cds.

Can't be any worse than mine!!! CD got stuck in it the first day i got it. I must get myself a new one.

Cheers
C

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:56 pm

I have mini disks

the worst thing was when I bought the car the guy had left a dire straights minidisk in it and until I got a mini disk recorder that was my only option

I can't get radio at all on mine not even when parked underneath the darvel transmiter I tried everything checking grounds/ally tape on the boot lid nothing

dave h s · Post by **dave h s** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:59 pm

what are the chances of a gd FM transmitter working in an exige then?

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:06 pm

dave h s wrote:what are the chances of a gd FM transmitter working in an exige then?

Hee

Haw

thinfourth · Post by **thinfourth** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:24 pm

dave h s wrote:what are the chances of a gd FM transmitter working in an exige then?

I think you have a very good chance of an FM transmitter working in an exige

As to whether you can actually pick anything up from it with the exige stereo well thats a whole new question