iPods and Subies

[Karen Martin]

Anyone have any experience installing an iPod in their car? I have an '05
Outback wagon, and would like to know what model the base CD/Am/FM is. I am
assuming it's a Clarion...I have an email into Subaru and am awaiting their
reply. I am hoping it has an input on the back that I could use.

I don't think an FM modulator will work as I have metallic window tint on all
back and sides. Also, there are very few available FM frequencies in the Phoenix
area to use.

I am watching several web sites (Crutchfield, Densionusa.com, etc.) for new
hard-wired solutions, which could be avialable soon.

-KarenM-
http://members.cox.net/kamartin/2005outbackreviews.html

 

[John O]

I don't think an FM modulator will work as I have metallic window tint on
all

back and sides. Also, there are very few available FM frequencies in the Phoenix
area to use.

Try one before you discount this method. Your modulator simply has to be
stronger than the regular station. It doesn't take much power from a
modulator to do that.

Not saying it *will* work, but you never know.

-John O

 

[Cixcos]

Anyone have any experience installing an iPod in their car? I have an
'05 Outback wagon, and would like to know what model the base CD/Am/FM
is. I am assuming it's a Clarion...I have an email into Subaru and am
awaiting their reply. I am hoping it has an input on the back that I
could use.

I don't think an FM modulator will work as I have metallic window tint
on all back and sides. Also, there are very few available FM frequencies
in the Phoenix area to use.

I am watching several web sites (Crutchfield, Densionusa.com, etc.) for
new hard-wired solutions, which could be avialable soon.

-KarenM-
http://members.cox.net/kamartin/2005outbackreviews.html

I don't have an ipod, but I use both a portable mp3 cd player and my
palm pda to listen to both music and books while on the road. For this I
use a low tech cassette adapter which comes with a mini audio plug and
is widely available. Search ebay for cassette adapter and see.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=58350&item=5710354799&rd=1

That's the only use I give the cassette player in my car radio. Good luck!

Ben

 

[Paul Braun]

I don't have an ipod, but I use both a portable mp3 cd player and my
palm pda to listen to both music and books while on the road. For this I
use a low tech cassette adapter which comes with a mini audio plug and
is widely available. Search ebay for cassette adapter and see.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=58350&item=5710354799&rd=1

That's the only use I give the cassette player in my car radio. Good luck!

My iPod goes with me all the time in my RS. I also use the cassette
adapter -- mine was a Sony. I originally bought it so I could bring
my minidisc player with me, and it came with a cigarette lighter
adapter as well, don't use that anymore since the iPod has it's own.

Paul

 

[alex3324]

there are very few available FM frequencies in the Phoenix
area to use.

Not sure how many radio stations are in the PHX area, but there are more
than 200 available spots on the FM dial. I think you could find one that
works with your iPod and an FM-Mod.

Alex

 

[Dave Null Sr.]

I use a low tech cassette adapter which comes with a mini audio plug
and is widely available. Search ebay for cassette adapter and see.

Many car audio systems now only come with a CD player and no cassette
tape drive (as implied above).

It's too bad all radios don't have a mini-plug jack
on the front for AUX like the 1991 Legacy.

 

[Cam Penner]

Many car audio systems now only come with a CD player and no cassette
tape drive (as implied above).

It's too bad all radios don't have a mini-plug jack
on the front for AUX like the 1991 Legacy.

It's not that hard to pick up an aftermarket deck with a
line-in. Mine has it.

 

[John O]

For this I use a low tech cassette adapter

Those work great, just be aware they magnetize the snot out of the tape
heads. After using an adapter, don't use the deck for cassettes you can't
re-make easily, the magnetized heads will kill the highs from the tape.
De-magnetize the heads and all is well again....until you use the adapter.

-John O

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Anyone have any experience installing an iPod in their car? I have an
'05 Outback wagon, and would like to know what model the base
CD/Am/FM is. I am assuming it's a Clarion...I have an email into
Subaru and am awaiting their reply. I am hoping it has an input on
the back that I could use.

My 2000 OBW had a Clariion deck in it, an AM/FM/cas deck, so I was able to
use a cassette adapter on an MP3-CD player. Later, I replaced the whole deck
with a JVC MP3-CD indeck player, so I no longer needed the adapters or
portable CD players and stuff.

Yousuf Khan