tfandango <tfandango@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to purchase some adapter to connect an iPod to the factory
> Honda stereo system in the 98 Accord (EX, not sure if that matters).

There are basically two ways to go with wire. One is ipod-specific, where
the controls of your existing stereo control the ipod.
The other is a generic aux-input. You connect the headphone or line out to
the car, control is still at the ipod.

I have the simple audio auxillary input in my 2003 Civic.
http://www.logjamelectronics.com/piehonaux.html

I didn't have to remove the radio. There's a flat 14 pin connector, on the
back of the radio, so it was easy enough to reach up behind the radio and
plug the connector in.

I press the CD button once, it plays a CD in the original single CD player.
I press CD again, and it selects my mp3 player, as CD-1, track one.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?C1D73243B

> I've had bad to worse luck with FM transmitters etc, and would just
> love to be able to plug the iPod in via a wire somehow. Has anyone
> managed to do something like this? Any links to purchase or howto
> sites extreemly appriciated.

The FM transmitters vary from poor to unusable.

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