Archive for May, 2008

Parrot Bluetooth Car Hands Free Kit 3200-LS CK3100 LCD CK3000 Review

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

When it comes to bluetooth hands free car kits, Parrotis the best. There is no company better. Hands down, their kits have the best phone compatibility of any phone kit made. Not only do they have the best phone compatibility, the kits will download your whole phonebook and allow you to access it directly from [...]

How to mount your iPod in your car

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

I have been writing about how to electronically interface your iPod to your car, but once you interface it, where do you put it? For this I use a custom, vehicle specific, dash mount. The manufacturer I recommend is Panavise. They make many mounts, covering almost every vehicle (Application Guide). These mounts require you to [...]

Toyota – Lexus – Scion MP3 / iPod Interface Review USA Spec PA15-TOY PA20-TOY

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

USA Spec makes two iPod interfaces for Toyota vehicles. The PA15-TOY and the PA20-TOY. The PA15-TOY is recommended for all non-navigation radios as well as all gen 4 and below navigation radios. The PA20-TOY is recommended for all gen 5 navigation radios.  A gen 5 navigation radio will play MP3 cds the gen 4 radio [...]

Nissan – Infiniti MP3 / iPod Interface Review – AAI-NIS2 / PXNI

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

A very good Nissan – Infiniti MP3/iPod interface is the PAC AAI-NIS2 and the Peripheral Electronics PXNI. I am giving you the part numbers from two different companies. Other than their packages, these interface are exactly the same. This interface allows for two auxiliary inputs, neither of which allow for control of the iPod from [...]

Stereo 1/8″ (3.5mm) phono to RCA cable

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

A stereo 1/8″ (3.5mm) phono to RCA cableis a cable that has a headphone plug on one side and RCAs on the other. This will work for all MP3 players as well as all iPODs. The upside is that it is pretty much universal, the downside is that it will not charge an iPOD. This [...]

iPod Interface Cable

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

An iPod interface cable will work for all iPods other than the shuffles. It has the long skinny plug for the bottom of the iPod on one side, and RCAs and power leads on the other. If you connect the power leads to a switched 12v lead and ground it will charge the iPod. Also, [...]

Nav-TV Tooki Porsche Bluetooth Interface Review

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

NAV-TV recently released their Tooki bluetooth phone interface for Porsche PCM2, phone ready radios. I was very excited when I heard about this interface because until now there was no way of interfacing your bluetooth cellphone directly to your Porsche radio (its not even offered by Porsche).