Well I finally got this mess installed.
I say mess for several reasons.
I was in the middle of doing the suspension when the product showed up. I quickly removed the CD changer in the trunk to look at the plug. It was different. I stuck the CD changer back in and forgot about messing with this anymore until other job were finished.
So after the front suspension and brakes were done I pulled the radio out of the dash and looked at the connections on that. They were different.
I don't know how much more plain I could have made it, that this was a Factory JBL sound system with a 10disc CD changer in the trunk.
Several calls to tech support at MP3 my car and to peripheral electronics [the manufacture or importer] got me no where. On hold forever.
So I sent both of them a email and included a pix from Crutchfield showing a different cable needed for my car as well as pixs of the cable that they sent.
48hrs latter I still didn't hear from either of them. Screw This!
I called MP3 my car and asked for a RMA to send it back. Alan answered the phone and was VERY nice. I explained everything and he encouraged me to let him fix this problem. I gave in and said OK.
Several days latter I got a email from peripheral electronics telling me that the unit does plug into the radio in the dash. Big help right? NOT! [as you will see]
So today I get the new cable and pull the radio. This cable doesn't look like the one Crutchfield showed on their website.
So anyway I disconnect the cable from the back of the radio. It is a male plug. I plug the male plug into radio from the new jumper cable, but it has a female plug on it too. So I plug the factory cable that I unplugged from the radio into that plug [I'm winging it here. There are no instructions] and there is a Yellow [+] & a Black [-]wire that must be hooked up to charge the Ipods onboard battery. So I get this all done.
Understand that the instruction totally suck as they are totally generic and non specific to my car.
With the radio still laid out of the dash I fire this thing up and it keep getting a message that says NO CD. There are no CD's in the CD changer.
The instructions say that it may take 3min to find itself, so I wait. Still nothing.
Ok lets go exploring. I go back to the trunk again and pull the power cable from the CD changer.
Remember this?
Well after disconnecting the CD changer wiring it worked. Yea!
But wait there is more.
So I route the cable that actually plugs into the Ipod itself and while fishing it around the anti strain part just falls off down in the dash some where.
Great! What a piece of Crap!
I call MP3 my car and ask for Allan and he's with a customer. I get Cory. I give my story and Ref # and he's sending me a new cable.
This was not a real pleasant experience.
1. I found the stuff cheaper. [same thing]
2. Tech support was NON Existent.
3. Waiting on stuff to come ground from Ca.
I say mess for several reasons.
I was in the middle of doing the suspension when the product showed up. I quickly removed the CD changer in the trunk to look at the plug. It was different. I stuck the CD changer back in and forgot about messing with this anymore until other job were finished.
So after the front suspension and brakes were done I pulled the radio out of the dash and looked at the connections on that. They were different.
I don't know how much more plain I could have made it, that this was a Factory JBL sound system with a 10disc CD changer in the trunk.
Several calls to tech support at MP3 my car and to peripheral electronics [the manufacture or importer] got me no where. On hold forever.
So I sent both of them a email and included a pix from Crutchfield showing a different cable needed for my car as well as pixs of the cable that they sent.
48hrs latter I still didn't hear from either of them. Screw This!
I called MP3 my car and asked for a RMA to send it back. Alan answered the phone and was VERY nice. I explained everything and he encouraged me to let him fix this problem. I gave in and said OK.
Several days latter I got a email from peripheral electronics telling me that the unit does plug into the radio in the dash. Big help right? NOT! [as you will see]
So today I get the new cable and pull the radio. This cable doesn't look like the one Crutchfield showed on their website.
So anyway I disconnect the cable from the back of the radio. It is a male plug. I plug the male plug into radio from the new jumper cable, but it has a female plug on it too. So I plug the factory cable that I unplugged from the radio into that plug [I'm winging it here. There are no instructions] and there is a Yellow [+] & a Black [-]wire that must be hooked up to charge the Ipods onboard battery. So I get this all done.
Understand that the instruction totally suck as they are totally generic and non specific to my car.
With the radio still laid out of the dash I fire this thing up and it keep getting a message that says NO CD. There are no CD's in the CD changer.
The instructions say that it may take 3min to find itself, so I wait. Still nothing.
Ok lets go exploring. I go back to the trunk again and pull the power cable from the CD changer.
Remember this?
Just a few more words and I would of had this going in no time.Several days latter I got a email from peripheral electronics telling me that the unit does plug into the radio in the dash. Big help right? NOT! [as you will see]
Well after disconnecting the CD changer wiring it worked. Yea!
But wait there is more.
So I route the cable that actually plugs into the Ipod itself and while fishing it around the anti strain part just falls off down in the dash some where.
Great! What a piece of Crap!
I call MP3 my car and ask for Allan and he's with a customer. I get Cory. I give my story and Ref # and he's sending me a new cable.
This was not a real pleasant experience.
1. I found the stuff cheaper. [same thing]
2. Tech support was NON Existent.
3. Waiting on stuff to come ground from Ca.
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