Hello all,
I'm new to all of this but I figure I have to start somewhere. I have no problems pulling out a soldering iron and following directions but I don't have the background to get from A to B.
I've got a 6 Disk Rockford Fosgate stereo in my 03' Xterra. This just happened to be one of the two years that this stereo has no easy way to hook an ipod or other external device to it. I'd love to hook my old nano up to it and have music rather than have a car filled with disks.
Some enterprising individual on an Xterra forum found a way to approach this by tapping in to the CD wiring and adding a switch to go between CD and AUX input. Link below:
**broken link removed**
I'd like to keep this as clean as possible and not have to mount a toggle switch in the vehicle (if possible). Is there some sort of switch that would sense the audio input when an Ipod is attached? This way I could mount everything behind the dash and run one input line to the console between the seats. When I plug the Ipod in it automatically initiates the switch and I'm in musical bliss.
I'd like to do this rather than purchase a different head unit with AUX-in. The cost of that would be greater than my desire to have this working... I've got steering wheel radio controls and don't want to lose those or buy a $60 conversion kit for a new head unit (I'm aware the controls will be useless while playing from the AUX-in but I'd like to have them for radio use).
If you need any other info please let me know. I'd love to get this figured out!
Thanks,
Neil
I'm new to all of this but I figure I have to start somewhere. I have no problems pulling out a soldering iron and following directions but I don't have the background to get from A to B.
I've got a 6 Disk Rockford Fosgate stereo in my 03' Xterra. This just happened to be one of the two years that this stereo has no easy way to hook an ipod or other external device to it. I'd love to hook my old nano up to it and have music rather than have a car filled with disks.
Some enterprising individual on an Xterra forum found a way to approach this by tapping in to the CD wiring and adding a switch to go between CD and AUX input. Link below:
**broken link removed**
I'd like to keep this as clean as possible and not have to mount a toggle switch in the vehicle (if possible). Is there some sort of switch that would sense the audio input when an Ipod is attached? This way I could mount everything behind the dash and run one input line to the console between the seats. When I plug the Ipod in it automatically initiates the switch and I'm in musical bliss.
I'd like to do this rather than purchase a different head unit with AUX-in. The cost of that would be greater than my desire to have this working... I've got steering wheel radio controls and don't want to lose those or buy a $60 conversion kit for a new head unit (I'm aware the controls will be useless while playing from the AUX-in but I'd like to have them for radio use).
If you need any other info please let me know. I'd love to get this figured out!
Thanks,
Neil