Ipod to car stereo

[Honda4trax250x]

I want to hook my ipod up to my sony head unit in my Jeep.

I have heard so many bad things about the wireless transmitters, so I dont think I want to go that way. I dont have a tape player, so i cant get one of those adapter things either.

What would I need to buy to wire it up directly to the red/white jacks in the back of my stereo?

-Thanks

[parkers30]

the RCA jacks ( red and white jacks) are commomnly just outputs for an amplifier, but yours could be different.

if you do indeed have an input, all you would need it a simple 1/8 inch to RCA adapter cable, which you can pick up at any store that has a decent electronics section

[Butters]

i can almost guarantee you the RCA ports on the back are output only. if you have the transmitter that close to your stereo it would work good. i have heard bad things about off-brand trasmitters but never anything bad about the actual iPod one.

[stevo3176]

If you have a cd chager you can got through there. I use that for my xm input.

[rubiowner01]

Yup the adaptor is the way to go if you have an aux input in your cd player. If you dont, then you should look into a FM modulator unit. This will tap into your FM radio antenna, and feed sound into a certain FM frequency.

i got one of the wireless transmittors, works fine, the casset things suck tho

[gun32boarder]

ive been looking in to this for a while since the main reason was to buy the pod 4 my car

alpine has a ilink module to use with their headunit

and a couple other ones 4 the stock system

http://www.mp3yourcar.com/default.asp

http://www.dension.com/main.php?pageid=93&topid=42&pid=50

[Butters]

yeah i would go with that direct connection setup. that way you know its going to work and its probably pretty simple to do.

[Honda4trax250x]

Originally posted by Butters
i can almost guarantee you the RCA ports on the back are output only.

I can almost garantee that you that it worked.

Actually it did.:D



I just saved 50 bucks by just using a cord I had lyng around the house!

[UglyMotha™]

ipod fm modulator sucks, you can buy mine :o

[Honda4trax250x]

Originally posted by UglyMotha™
ipod fm modulator sucks, you can buy mine :o


thats okay, i already did mine for free;)

[UglyMotha™]

huh :huh


you happen to have one of those laying around your house too