hoovman

If you succeed in installing the audio controls wheel on your 2.5i, I might do mine. I've had my radio out before to do the Jazzy aux-in mod so NBD there. I'm a little nervous working around the airbag though. Think I could find a shop that would do it for me?

Got mine installed a while back. Took 2-3 hours and was pretty straight forward except for the armrest clips! Ended up pulling *back* and up and (memory is a little fuzzy here) disconnecting the clips from the wrong (car body, not armrest) side! Ended up getting one out but broke the other. Seems to hold ok with just the 1. I picked a spot in the armrest cubby (next to the 12V) to mount a panel mount female jack. Drilled from above instead of underneath, and ended up having to enlarge the hole a little too much just to get the back side of the jack to end up flush with the underside of the cubby. It looks a little crappy if you shine a flashlight in the cubby and look closely, and it's a little looser than I'd like, but otherwise it's fine! I connected the female aux in jack to GLI which was plugged into jazzy. Then I went to get the ipod to check it out and... dead ipod battery:icon_mad: . I had planned to use a dock-to-male audio cable and just recharge the ipod at home. Instead, I today finally got a car charger to plug into the doc port (to power the ipod) and a short m-to-m audio cable from the ipod headphone jack to the my new female aux in. Dropped in my blank cd, pressed play on the ipod and... Success! Thanks Jazzy! My 2 hour car trip today is going to be great!

No big deal. I got a dock-connector-to-3.5 mm cable that's unpowered, so it turns out I have a GLI-free solution with line level. At least it's one fewer set of plugs between the source and the receiver

D'OH! I Wish you'd said this before I bought my just-in-case GLI. Maybe add it to the FAQ or the top page of the thread?

PolarDog, Thanks for the great pix! Unfortunately it looks to me like a prescription for a stiff neck. But you helped me make up my mind. I'm going to go with the retractable cord I found that has a dock connector on one end and a male 3.5mm on the other. It's a little more work to connect, but I think it will be better for my wife and me. Thanks again!

Great pix PolarDog! I haven't done my install yet and now you've seriously got me thinking about the flexibledock! Could you do me (and others thinking about the same dock) a favor? I'd like to see pics of how far left and right the iPod can turn when in your setup. With the iPod oriented the way you have it, I think my passenger would get a stiff neck if she wanted to browse music. Thanks, Jeff

FWIW, I'd use your website if I didn't already have my board

Anyone know if this idea would work on an 05 OBW?

I went to your website. Cool! One small request - please add cable lengths to your descriptions. Some other products you might consider stocking: http://www.datapro.net/products/1224.html http://www.datapro.net/products/1223.html http://www.welovemacs.com/zipaudioip1.html

I ordered a PAC SNI-1/3.5 from Crutchfield on Monday and I just got an email today that it shipped! That's not bad!

PAC is lazy/cheap. Look at the 2 GLIs. They both use the same sticker! Notice that on the on the left-hand side of the 3.5, it says: LEFT OUTPUT RIGHT just like it does on the RCA, even though the 3.5 doesn't have separate wires for left and right! I'm not sure I trust the sticker now.

I'm already going to have iPod -> patch cable -> GLI. I'm not sure if I want to add that last patch cable so that the GLI is outside the head. It's a tough call. If you use another patch cable you get the benefit of the GLI being accessible but you also add another plug connection into it. Jazzy, you seem to imply that you opened a PAC GLI to look at the windings. Can you say definitevely which direction it is?

Originally Posted by ilh When I wired my Crutchfield 3.5mm GLI in, it seemed like it was backwards. The "IN" side (male) was toward the jazzy, but to do it any other way would require an adapter between the jazzy and the GLI. It sounds fine that way. The Crutchfield pic below looks to me like Male = output. So the male should plug straight into the jazzy. {Output of iPod -> input (F) of GLI -> output of GLI -> input of jazzy (F) -> head} Am I wrong? http://akamaipix.crutchfield.com/products/2005/127/x127SNi135-f.jpeg

No, No! Install it in the car!

Nice find! It should be a real help to those who have the manual climate controls!

Plan for convincing wife that her car needs Jazzy: - Buy iPod and FM modulator - Make a playlist of all her favorite songs. Buy CDs or iTunes to fill the gaps in your collection. Remember, it's *her* favorite songs (both of yours is OK too, but not *your* favorite songs) - Burn a CD of her playlist. - Take her on a road trip and play her songs from the iPod over FM. Highlight the virtues of commercial-free music. Show the headache of FM modulation. - Give her the CD. Not only will she finally "get it" - at least my wife did- but she'll dig you for paying attention to something she likes and doing something nice for her.

And I just found an A/B 3.5 mm audio switch! http://electronicsusa.com/mk1and2.html

n8gray has an awesome photo blog about doing the install - his post is here: http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php?p=321634#post321634 I just thought it would be good to remind people it's there. I'll be studying it before I do my install.

Can you tell I didn't read the instructions yet? I didn't know about Jazzy's zip-tie method. Here's the panel mount I was thinking about - http://www.datapro.net/products/1224.html I've got to believe the plastic of the armrest floor is thin enough for that. I forgot one detail for my "clean" install. The gf filter - there's a 3.5M to 3.5F at crutchfield. too bad that makes another pair of connections.

starmate? This Jensen? This JVC one?

I haven't bought one yet, but the website for the XM Commander also says 3.5 mm mini audio. The cleanest install I've been able to think up is this: Jazzy -> male-to-female 3.5mm extender cord -> 3.5 mm male-to-XM cord or Jazzy -> male-to-female 3.5mm extender cord -> 3.5 mm male-to-iPod cord If I mount the extender cord jack inside my armrest and route the XM cord to there as well, I can plug in XM (looking totally stock) or put the iPod in my cupholder iPod stand and plug it in using the little armrest cable cutout. Has anyone come up with a nice way of securing the cable to the Jazzy? I don't expect it to pull out, since the other end will be mounted in a panel, but I'd like to be more cautious. How about the roadyxt or the skyfi?

I ordered my jazzy unit today!

As you might guess, there are lots of ways to do this. Simple solution: If you go with a 1/8" male to 1/8" male for audio, then you can use any type of auto-charger you want. Of course there's some thought that the audio out of the headphone jack doesn't sound as good as the line out of the dock connector. (Some people can hear the difference, some people can't.) Also there's the all-in-ones: http://sik.com/imp.php OR http://www.monstercable.com/computer/productPageComputer.asp?pin=2132 They charge the iPod and also have a 1/8" female audio out jack. Use a 1/8" male to 1/8" male from there to the Jazzy. Any solution that includes charging the iPod runs the risk of ground loop noise. If you are concerned, you can either try it first and go back and redo it if there is, or play it safe and start with one of the PAC SNI-1/3.5 Noise Filters from Crutchfield http://www.crutchfield.com/S-Hw05sCh...50&I=127SNI135

YEP.

I think I am about to be a Jazzy convert - I had been thinking about the Metra wired FM modulation so-called "solution". I have even found a perfect line-out cable for the iPod. See my post about it here on the retractable cable thread. Lastly, I discovered the PAC SNI-1/3.5 Noise Filter at Crutchfield: http://www.crutchfield.com/S-Hw05sChjULT/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=181150&I=127SNI135 You can plug it directly into the Jazzy mod and plug any 3.5mm into it!