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How can i play my ipod in my Mustang without buying a new head unit ?

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Answer #1

There is many choices you have to connect your ipod to the car stero but it also depends on the ipod…

You can use a fm transmitter; basically finds a clear station with no noise and same station on ipod and then bam music goes through your radio heres a example of one but there are many ohers and cheaper too TuneBase™ FM with ClearScan

For car stereos with auxiliary line-in, you can connect the iPod to the stereo using “an extension cable with 3.5 mm stereo connectors on each end.

If you have a car stereo with a cassette player , you can purchase a simple mini-plug to tape adapter that plugs into the iPod’s headphone jack and the cassette deck.

Answer #2

Thats a toughie. See, Ford head units are usually manufactured by a company called JBL. I say that the J stands for Junk, cause thats mostly what they are. blablablah231 has a good answer yes. However, it should be noted that the FM transmitter does a lousy job with sound reproduced on the speakers.

The Cassette thing he’s talking about is called a CD to Cassette Adapter. On the Fords that I’ve used those on, I found them a bit of a pain in the @$$ because it would goof up the head unit and make it go into “Seek” mode which is when the cassette player looks for another track on a cassette. Handy with an actual cassette, not one of those CD/Cassette thingies.

I would highly recommend getting your hands on a JC Whitney Catalog to price out new head units. Get speakers too while you’re at it, you might as well.

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