Question for those with car kit experience.

Jan 03, 2009 8 Replies

Don't know the make, but there is a Motorola wired kit in. Is it worth doing anything with changing the cradle wise? Do they still make wired cradles for new phones or just for the old stagers.



I'm guessing behind the dash the wiring will have already been cut to allow the phone through the speakers, and wired into telemute as toyota/lexus don't use ISOs. I don't have an old Motorola to stick sim in to test it.


Rip it out and put a Parrot kit in.

Figured, that or an IOplay.

I'll use my borgtooth for now, then get it sorted later.

How does the IOPlay work?

It appears that it just patches into your speakers, using its own amplifier.

Which, to me, doesn't make sense, if you have a decent head unit and factory amp in the car.

Surely it just means you get slightly crap audio performance compared with running an MP3 player through the head unit?

That's right. And only the front ones. And only until the unit fails.

Fair enough, didn't realise they were so stupidly basic.

I read that as '..those with kit car experience.' I'm all disappointed now.

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