I remember seeing a thread here about hooking up ipods to car stereos with a aux button. this post won’t help you. Sorry. However, for those that do have RCA plugs in the back of their stereo which aren’t plugged into anything, this OP of mine will offer an alternative to the expensive answer I recall the last thread ending with.
Most car stereos have plugs in the back meant to plug into upgrades. These use exactly the same plugs as in the back of a home stereo. To plug an ipod into your stereo, simply buy a y-cable (one end two rca plugs, one end a headset plug)
Yank out your stereo, plug the rca end into your stereo, plug the headset jack into your ipod, and voila! you have a mess all over your car! Unplug the ipod end, snake the headphone through in some way that would let you put the stereo back and still have the cable portruding, or drill a hole um…somewhere in the dashboard where it wouldn’t effect the system and run the cable through there.
Put the stereo back. By now you should have a cable stick out somewhere on the dash. If it is too short, simply add an extender. When not using it, put a piece of styrofoam over the plug or “You’ll poke somebody’s eye out”
To use the ipod without fumbling, simply affix it to the dash using:
The Force
Rare-earth magnets (No!)
One of those little stick pads for ipods or cell phones.
The Podpod, a gussied-up cupholder, modified to hold an ipod, avalible for a sawbuck at radio shack.
To use at night, simply plug it into the cigarette lighter and fix it so that the backlight stays on.
P.S. Do not use Monster brand cables. They are made from the marrow of small business owners. Generic cables will work as well, though I always try to use the same kind of metal as it will touch when plugged in.
P.S. I tried to search to see if this was covered, but the search is slowing down on me.
Thank you to a friend’s copy of Readymade Magazine that I read a few months ago for the idea, though I expanded on it.