Mugatu

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jesus christ that's a lot of unscrewing.

Mikelikes2drive

:/ too risky for me cuz im got no experience in welding or soldering or wateva u call it :/ damn i wish you lived in socal and i could juss pay you to do this for me haha

rx8 dx

Works Perfect!!!!! Thanks for your effort.

l008com

Hey no prob. Mike, i suggest you give it a try. Its really not that hard. The only hard part is soldering, and I'm sure you can find someone you can bring it to that can solder it for you?

ectomort

The soldering is not that difficult. Keep your iron relatively cool (and don't keep it in contact with the board for too long), use rosin flux core solder, and take your time.

Boozehound

Allsome DIY! That had to take tons of time!

l008com

Yeah a lot more than I had planed.

Mikelikes2drive

well if I'm REALLY bored during the summer and find someone to solder for me ill give it a try :/

Napboy

this DIY is very impressive. I'm in the process of buying XM. Can this hack be used to connect XM to the head unit? I assume this will sound better than FM Modulation? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

thew

Hey loo8corn all that stuff on your key ring is very very very bad for your ignition switch. the weight of that crap will wear out the rollers and pins faster than you can so Boo.....

FYI .

l008com

Aaaw who cares :-D

Yes the mod should work with XM. Though your better off with an iPod :-P

Napboy

Used the hack last night following the awesome DIY. Works like a charm. About the soldering, the soldering points were a lot smaller than I expected. It takes a steady hand.

l008com

Yeah the soldering sucked the most.

TxRx8

Will this work on a non-Bose head unit?

l008com

I'm pretty sure it will work on both. I'm also not sure which I have, how do you tell? If this is like any of my other cars, the head unit is the same, and the 'bose' part is just nicer speakers and an external amp bolted on.

TxRx8

A friend and I will be doing this mod in a couple of days. It'll be a little different tho. Instead of a male-end connection we're adding a female-end to the spot pictured here. Sorry dude used your pic. :D Anyways, I'll be using a Philips HDD100, a suppossed ipod killer. 15 gigs for 200 bucks, it aint bad. Plus it matches our trim very well! Black with silver...ooooo.

l008com

Yeah there have been lots of ipod killers... I haven't read one single good review of them. Besides iPod gives you 20 Gigs for $300, plus you get access to the iTMS, and an interface you can't beat. But hey, its your choice. But you might want to see if you can't try out one of those things your goona buy, and try out an ipod first, before you buy one.

GTR-jai

I did this hack but seems to be having problem with the cd player. Are my supose to take the cds out before i hack or is it ok.
wat happen now is that the cd just seems to be shuffling around accasionally and niothing else is happening . Can anyone help!!!!!!
I took the cover of the cd player and notice sum label stuck init but they are taken out now.
If i was to take it back to mazda isit gonna void my warrenty

l008com

It kinda sounds like your CD is scratched? If you do this hack right, the CD Player itself comes out in one piece and you don't actually do any work to it specifically. Can you be more specific on exactly what is going on.

GTR-jai

Ok wat it was after the hack i put every thing back together then when i press the cd button nothings was happening so i took the the cover of the cd player and check wat was going on. then i saw few labels from the cd has come loss and jamed the thing.So i got sum tresers and got them out.
Ok so i thought i was gonna be fine now. when i pluged the cabke in its started doing sumthing i was happy and thought its gonna work.
So i press the cd button and it wasnt doing nothing. i can only hear sum sound outa it.
Then i decided to take the cover of the cd player and plug the cable back in so i can see wats going on. all it is doing is moving the cds around its just going up and down nothing much.
This shuffling business happens once in a while and i have no idea wat i can do no.

Sorry if i confused YOU

GTR-jai

Has it got anything to do with me leaving the cds in

l008com

Hmm I don't know what to tell you, I only have the single disc. But it definitely doesn't sound like its something you did to it turning the hack. Sounds like you just jammed some crap in there. I'd probably try taking it apart again, and taking the CD player unit apart as much as possible, and make sure its all clean and clear of debris.

GTR-jai

i tried taking it apart but i got kinda complicated. all i was able to take apart was the side metal pieces. then i got stuck lol. take a screw out the spring goes all over the place so i was like Oo im gonna stop now. i tried to take the cds out but was nit able to. Ok nvm im just gonna have to take it back to the dealers and tell em the truth bout wat i did. o well wish me good luck lol. guess i got to pay for it

Nubo

LOL, I just "downloaded" your zipped AIFF files. That's got to be the best compression ratio of all time

So, what do you normally just put the CD on "repeat track"? Any drop-out when it gets to the end of the CD and starts over?

Thanks for your brave experiment!

naubin

I am getting the 6 cd changer and sat nav. The Sat nav controls are near the seat heater switches. Any thoughts on whether it will be OK or not?

Thanks