Well, my daughter is getting an Iphone and I am inheriting her Ipod. The thing is I do not know how to connect it to my 2005 F150 stock single CD deck on my truck, so I did some searching.

I have seen about doing the PIE adapter thing but never really paid much attention since I have no ipod. Well I will son have one and I have now done some searching like a good little Global Moderator.

I found this unit from the website that was linked in another PIE adapter thread, http://www.tss-radio.com/frd04aux-p-322.html and the P/N of FRD04-AUX, and I believe my stock deck meets the requirements since it has the AUX button, as specified.

First off, I think this is what I need but am not completely sure and I need some verification from you smart guys. Will I need any special cable to connect the ipod to it, if this is what I need? Also, is this a good price, if it's what I need?

Go ahead and treat me like a noob, I'm clueless. :o

Thanks for the help.

 

Looks good to me. You'll need a standard rca to stereo mini jack to hook up to the ipod. I would think that's kinda high for price, check ebay maybe... I paid that for mine 3 years ago.

Sorry, it comes with the cable for the ipod, but you might want to get a better cable, depending on how **** you are.

 

Thanks, man.

They're about $15 cheaper on Ebay.

 

They make somethings that plug into the bottom of the ipod like the charger would and it is wireless so you tune it to a radio station and tune your radio to a station and it palys that way, works very well, I had someone using theirs and they were about 30 or 40 yards away and it still worked in my truck, I think they got it at Radioshack for like $20 or so.

 

I think those are FM modulators. I read they don't get CD quality sound.

 

Yeah that is what it is, from the one I heard it was very good, the one my fiance had in her car, was the one that plugged into the cigarette lighter, but it did not sound that good, and if I remember right, it tuned to AM, but not positive

 

i hate Fm modulators , the quality is good at some times then at other times you have other cars with them to worry about , so it gets staticy and sounds like chit .

get the pie thing, or better yet get a new H/U

thats what i did, got the D3 i love it. works great with the ipod

 

I'm staying stock. I prefer the stock look and don't want to mess with someone else looking in and wanting my stuff.

 

Stealth Is the 1 you linked to the same that controls from the steering wheel??

im searching for 1 at the moment. just need to work out if the rear of the U.S radios are same plugs as UK ones

 

I don't think so.

 

im going to dallas next month, if the 07 stock deck will plug and play and same with the dash tray(with the ipod outlet), we could trade, i could care less about the little plug on it. my deck has just been sitting in my closet basically since i got the truck

sister has some adapter for her ipod on her 06 and she doesn't even use it, she said its to hard to scroll thru the songs using the stock HU

 

Hmmm, that's an idea. I think I'd need an antenna adapter to switch to the 07 head unit from the 05 head unit. I believe the trays are the same.

Single disc, correct?

 

yea. it was in my truck not even a month and i pulled it for my navigation. if you can figure out how to make it work your welcome to it

 

Thanks, man. I'll let you know.

 

I was in the same boat not long ago but already had a PIE unit for my XM, this is what Logjam responded back to me with and what I needed to purchase to run my IPOD and keep it charged. You probably only need the second one unless you want to add XM or Sirius. You can email them with questions, customer service is very good. Hope this helps.


To keep your XM connected and add an iPOD interface that will charge the iPOD as well as directly connecting the audio with digital quality, you will need to purchase the AUX3, seen here: http://www.logjamelectronics.com/soundaux3.html. This will convert the single auxiliary input you currently have to three auxiliary inputs. Then you will also need the UNi-POD universal iPOD interface, seen here: http://www.logjamelectronics.com/pieunipod.html, to connect the audio from the iPOD and charge the iPOD while connected.

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