Well guys ive had my car now for 6 years and I am really wanting to get a ipod/aux input in it. I had the old pie unit from a few years back but it made all my dash lights go crazy and not work correctly so I had to unistall it after only 2 days. I have the shaker 500 system installed in my car and Im wondering if there are any new units that will work correctly with the shaker 500 system? I really only caring about adding the aux input feature, the charging and radio control features are nice but I dont really care if I have them or not. Thanks!

 

The 05's didn't have them from the factory?

 

No unfortunately they didnt

 

If you are trying to use an Ipod I had an Alpine unit that worked great. It plugged into the antenna and needed power and ground. It used an empty or dead channel to broadcast. I was not sure of it because we get a lot of static on all channels up here but it worked. Charged the Ipod also. Alpine DPR-RDS1 Factory Radio Interface for iPod® and iPhone®.
Just my .02

 

2005+2006 did not
My 2007 had it.

 

Unless you really want to keep the stock look, you could get a new deck and wiring harness for about $150. The sound is way better then stock and you also get control of the door subs. Plus it will play and charge ipods at the same time.

 

yea thats what I have been thinking but at the same time i figure if I am going to repalce the head unit entirely I should just go ahead and get the in dash nav unit from pioneer, which would be alot more expensive.

 

thanks for the advice. ill have to look into that one

 

That's what I ended up doing. Though, if you have a newer iPod, I recommend getting the latest version of their HU. My AVIC-D3 will only have fully functionality with iPod classic 6th gen and older. It'll still charge a newer one, but the control through the HU touch screen is lost.. you have to use the iPod to do anything.

 

You're probably not wanting to think about it, but I too used the PIE interface adapter that allowed you to plug in your iPod via the headphone jack (no stereo controls, just audio). I had to send of for an updated chip as the version mine was originally flashed with had a bug and would drain the battery. I used it for over 4 years with zero issues after that.

Sean Beauchamp sent me a set of black door handles for free out of the kindness of his heart a while back, so I still owe the karma Gods. If you are interested in keeping your stock unit, I can "almost" promise that mine will work just fine, and I'd be willing to send it to you free of charge.

PM me with your address and let me know!

 

That is an extremely nice gesture and I do truly appreciate it. If it works I will be so happy and grateful to you! PM Sent.

 

This might be what you're looking for.

http://www.s197forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63994

 

Well nothing to see here, I promise my man a free part to fix it and then fall through. I can't find this thing for the life of me, or the stereo installer made off with it and I was too excited about my new HU to notice. It's not installed in the car still (yes, I did check).

Sent you a PM, but want to reiterate, very sorry I fell through for you on this. Hope this all works out for you, maybe someone else has an adapter they aren't using and can send it your way.

All the best!

 

S197 V6,

I just pulled the frd04 out of our 06 mustang.

Our Shaker 1000 head unit was having issues. It hasn't played Cd's in years and was dropping channels on the front speakers on multiple inputs. Last week the shaker stopped seeing the frd04.. AFAIK, the frd04 is just fine but I had no other way to try it.

I dropped in a Clarion CX501 head unit over the weekend which had front panel Aux, and USB and seems to work fine with our Iphone 3gs's. I think I paid $230 for the new head unit, wire harness, and the metra dash kit via amazon. The new head unit works as well as the old shaker 1000 and has bluetooth (audio and telelphone, at least on the iphones) but is only a 1 disc player.

Your welcome to it for free (just pay shipping) if you want it. I have it sitting on the kitchen table if you want it.. It should fit into a USPS priority mail small box, so shipping would be about $6 and you'd have it in < 3 days.

let me know..

~Mark

 

I agree with the new HU. You get so much more sound and options. I was worried about losing the six disc but realized you can fit much more music on a 8 gig SD card or flash drive and be able to shuffle through all the music without switching CDs. Plus I never had someone say "oooh thats a cool looking stock head unit!!"

 

No need to apologize at all. It was a really generous offer in the first place and it just didnt happen to work out. No biggie, thanks anyways for the thought though!

 

Thanks for the offer! Before I accept though, could you just give me a little more about the frd04 unit from your 06? Like who makes it and such, so I can do a little research on it to make sure it will work correctly with the 05 model since alot of the adapters that work well dont end up working on the 05 for whatever reason.

 

Its the PIE adapter. We got it, IIRC, late 2006 which I was told was the 2nd set of adapters. These already have some kind of change to make them work better than the original one.

Here is the page from the manufacurer.
http://www.pie.net/index.php?option=...d=45&Itemid=40

I did notice the price has dropped tons since we bought it.. Its <$75 from amazon.

~Mark

 

Nice! I just installed that same HU:



$200 for everything from Amazon, as well. Works great and only took about a half hour to install. Love using my Droid X as an iPod (have my iTunes playlists on the Droid and then sync it up with the bluetooth on the Clarion) or to stream Pandora wirelessly.

 

The 1 disc thing was an initial concern, til I realized the USB, SD cards, BT streaming would make that a moot point.