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Anyone have any experience installing an iPod in their car? I have an '05 Outback wagon, and would like to know what model the base CD/Am/FM is. I am assuming it's a Clarion...I have an email into Subaru and am awaiting their reply. I am hoping it has an input on the back that I could use.

I don't think an FM modulator will work as I have metallic window tint on all back and sides. Also, there are very few available FM frequencies in the Phoenix area to use.

I am watching several web sites (Crutchfield, Densionusa.com, etc.) for new hard-wired solutions, which could be avialable soon.

-KarenM-

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Karen Martin
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Try one before you discount this method. Your modulator simply has to be stronger than the regular station. It doesn't take much power from a modulator to do that.

Not saying it *will* work, but you never know.

-John O

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John O

I don't have an ipod, but I use both a portable mp3 cd player and my palm pda to listen to both music and books while on the road. For this I use a low tech cassette adapter which comes with a mini audio plug and is widely available. Search ebay for cassette adapter and see.

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That's the only use I give the cassette player in my car radio. Good luck!

Ben

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Cixcos

My iPod goes with me all the time in my RS. I also use the cassette adapter -- mine was a Sony. I originally bought it so I could bring my minidisc player with me, and it came with a cigarette lighter adapter as well, don't use that anymore since the iPod has it's own.

Paul

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Paul Braun

area to use.

Not sure how many radio stations are in the PHX area, but there are more than 200 available spots on the FM dial. I think you could find one that works with your iPod and an FM-Mod.

Alex

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alex3324

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:24:30 GMT, Cixcos wrote in news:PFrMc.2049$ snipped-for-privacy@fe39.usenetserver.com:

Many car audio systems now only come with a CD player and no cassette tape drive (as implied above).

It's too bad all radios don't have a mini-plug jack on the front for AUX like the 1991 Legacy.

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Dave Null Sr.

It's not that hard to pick up an aftermarket deck with a line-in. Mine has it.

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Cam Penner

Those work great, just be aware they magnetize the snot out of the tape heads. After using an adapter, don't use the deck for cassettes you can't re-make easily, the magnetized heads will kill the highs from the tape. De-magnetize the heads and all is well again....until you use the adapter.

-John O

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John O

My 2000 OBW had a Clariion deck in it, an AM/FM/cas deck, so I was able to use a cassette adapter on an MP3-CD player. Later, I replaced the whole deck with a JVC MP3-CD indeck player, so I no longer needed the adapters or portable CD players and stuff.

Yousuf Khan

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Yousuf Khan

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