iPod in your car

If you like to connect your to your car, turn up the music on your ipod through your car speaker systemand apart from changing to a brand new car that has ipod integration such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan and Volvo - there are other options around.

If your car does not have the ipod connectivity kit, the solution to ipod your car is to buy and ipo connectivity kit which can be brought cheaply

An ipod adaptor retailed by companies such as Peripheral and Monster can be installed within the cavern of wires behind your car dashboard, with one prong from adaptor going to the back of your stereo while another prong goes to a ipod holder near the front.

The ipod adaptor works like an emulator and tricks the stereo to think it is a CD changer, so that you can use the track buttons on the stereo faceplate to select songs of your choice, its very simple.

Installing an ipod changer might be difficult for the non-mechanical inclined, and the services of a trained mechanic might be easier.

If your car is old, the factory installed stereo might not be suitable for ipod integration and make sure you check before buying one. For such cars, it is advisable to install a new player from manufacturers such as Alpine, Kenwood and Pioneer but this can be expensive.

If sound quality is important to you, the use of ipod cassete adaptors is not recommended as the sound quality is not good enough, and more importantly they do not recharge the ipod's battery, but now adays are the cheapest option if you just go to and from work.

Yet another solution is to use a FM modulator that can produce better sound, and can recharge the batteries, but cannot be directly controlled from the radio.

With these drawbacks, the ipod cassete adaptor and the FM modulator are not the best options, and it is still the ipod adaptor that is recommended.

to find out what ipod integration is necessary for the model of your car, there are online catalogues from websites such as Crutchfield.com which come in very handy.

So your first step is to determine the ipod integration requirements for your car and get the suitable adaptor read through the manual to install and off you go. Before long, you can be blasting your ipod through your car speakers and youll never go back to your radio again.