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The ipod works fine, but I lost the fm radio( can get any stations), like there is no antenna connected.. Any Ideas?
Thanks

Agent of Chaos

Major Kudos to the author....
This morning I had a CD get jammed in the player, so I knew afterwork I would have to pull the darn radio unit out and strip it all down to get the CD un-stuckeded (technical term).
I had read through this post a few days ago and was intrigued at the time. Well I was gather the tools to pull the radio unit out, and it occurred to me...Well I thought to myself..."What a good idea!"..So I dug out the RCA stero to RCA mini jack cables from my closet and proceeded to hack away.
Through the thorough detailing of the how-to guide, I was able to perform the soldering in a few hours., while unstuckeding the stuck CD.
I did run into one small snag though. After plugging the two connectors into the completed hacked radio unit, I had a lline running across the top of the text portion of the display. But the sound came through perfectly on the lline-input.
I took the radio back out and re-disassembled it, blowing any dust or debris out of each connector. I did notice a small sliver of solder fall out durring the dis-assembly. After doing that and re-assembling the hacked radio unit, I re-connected the wires and BLAMO..the display looked good and the audio sound great!

The next task will be to find a good place to cleanly mount the newly installed Line Input.

Anyway to make a short story long....Thanks for the how-to...it was excellant and easy to follow!

Gary

AndyV

Awesome DIY.

What would happen if you accidently played a regular CD while the IPod was cranking out the tunes? Could the stereo or the IPod possibly burn out?

ectomort

No, you'll hear both the CD and the iPod. It's great for creating accidental mashups.

However, you may risk damaging your head unit if you don't use a line level output from the iPod (e.g. if you use the headphone jack and turn the volume all the way up on the iPod.)

ectomort

There should be no problem with the Sat nav controls... there's probably a one more jumper to unhook when removing the shifter panel assembly. There's plenty of room under there for routing the patch cable.

ectomort

Well, the experimentation kudos should go to OverLOAD (for the original cassette player hack, Custom AUX-In threads), myself (for the original CD player hack and tutorial back at the beginning of the year) and others on this forum for details on how to remove the stereo (MP3 install threads.)

John did make the best "idiot-proof" tutorial, though.

Nubo

^^ "...because we stand on the shoulders of giants". :D

yes, thanks to you all!

TxRx8

Great mod man! Damn thing worked perfectly. Now I have a question. I armed my car tonight and I noticed the blinkers didn't go off, could it be this mod? Or is there some buttons I can push to make them come back on again?

TxRx8

Nevermind, friggin' trunk was open! :P