IPOD

I haven't done an IPOD, I have set up my iRiver to play throught my Pioneer stereo. The Pioneer has an AUX line in, so I ran a line out with a 1/8 inch plug. I just plug that into either the headphone or the line out port on the iRiver. I can then plug my iRiver into the car stereo. It works great.

Jack

I installed one in a 2005 Forester X. I used a Belkin "cigarette lighter" IPOD DC adapter and an FM transmitter. I live in a metropolitan area where all the FM channels have noise on them. A simple FM transmitter just doesn't work. The transmitter was wired as an alternate to the radio antenna. A switch by the front cup holder selects either regular radio antenna or FM transmitter output to the regular antenna input. It works OK. This was installed by Circuit City.

The IPOD is really too fussy to be used in a car. I won't change albums while I am driving. Only while parked. The 30 seconds it takes to change is just too likely to cause an accident. A passenger could easy change the tunes. You can put albums in repeat mode and select "all albums by artist" to keep the tunes going. You can make up playlists as long as you want.

The good news: I have 500 albums on my IPOD and it is only half full!

Good Luck

I've been using iPods in my Legacy wagon for more than theee years now (the first time was when I borrowed a friend's 5 GB iPod when I needed to drive 1100 km with my family to attend a wedding on 2/2/2002).

I just sit it in its dock in the depression in front of the (automatic) gear shift lever where you might otherwise put pens or sunglasses or something. The dock gives it a low enough center of gravity to stay put there even during spirited cornering.

I run a standard audio lead from the headphone socket to the line-in on my car stereo. It would only need to be a few inches long but I use a

1.5m lead so that I can pass the iPod to back seat passengers when it's their turn to choose music. I use the headphone out on the iPod rather than the line-out on the dock because it's more convenient to adjust volume using the iPod than using the stereo's controls and because that lets me pass just the iPod back without the dock (which has power coming in from the cigarette lighter) but with music still playing.

I also have an "iTrip" FM transmitter that I use in other people's cars. It's good, but not as good as a cable.

Nah, it's no problem, as long as you give the road your atention and glance at the iPod occasionally, and not the other way around.

I have my iPod connected through the iPod connector to my Alpine Head Unit.