I was just using the mobile-ease picture as a reference as to what it might look like. We have no photos of the accessory sync yet. I will be meeting with our accessory rep this week and might have more info then.

 

Here I'm getting carried away with a reference pic. Well, either way, I'm anxious to see/hear about this. Thank you for the heads up.

 

As far as I know, the sync as an accessory is going to be a HUGE pain in the butt. No microphone is wired in overhead, and must be, no USB ports are wired into the console and they need to be there. How big of a hassle will the accessory sync install be?

 

I just spoke with some rep's at Ford corporate over one of our broadcasts, and it appears that my accessory rep was incorrect, i apologize. As it says in the compatibility chart, Sync will not be available as a factory option for 2008's except for the Lincoln Navigator... And they claim they cannot be retrofitted back to previous years or other cars because of the radio technology.

They said it might, unoficially be possible to retrofit Sync into 08's, or other previous model years if you have an '09 Radio. I have jumped through some hoops and hopefully can get in contact with a Ford engineer and find out a solution for us.

 

Thanks for the tease

 

Microsoft could make a killing off this thing is they opened it up to the after market.

How much does an 09 radio cost? I'd imagine way more than anyone would want to spend on a factory radio.

Does ford offer an external CD changer? Would be great if they could hook it up through that interface if it existed.

 

****'t...I hate being right. Especially on this one, I was looking forward to being wrong and getting some Sync love.

 

"or other previous model years if you have an '09 Radio"

So, does that mean if I buy a MY09 Stang, I WILL be able to retrofit Sync into it? Or, is that also still "tbd"?

 

If you buy a 2009 Mustang, Sync will be available as a factory accessory kit for around $300.00

 

So if you swapped in an 09 radio, would you be able to retrofit Sync?

 

http://home.comcast.net/~bztz4m1/2009Mustang.pdf This is a link to the MY09 Mustang Ordering Guide....SYNC is not in it...anywhere.

Where do you see SYNC will be available as a factory accessory...if its not in the official ordering guide?

 

It will be available for purchase as a separate dealer installed accessory in July '08 for 09 Mustangs.

 

Like I already stated, you need more than the radio.

"As far as I know, the sync as an accessory is going to be a HUGE pain in the butt. No microphone is wired in overhead, and must be, no USB ports are wired into the console and they need to be there. How big of a hassle will the accessory sync install be?"

 

in my 2008 there is a removable pannel in the console next to the coin holder, i wonder if thats to wire up USB ports? also, there appears to be a microphone in the overhead area near the map light... I wonder if this is for sync?

 

I would be very surprised if that were the case. I worked as a Service Advisor at a Ford dealership before I came here. Attended some classes on Sync - where we were all told it would never be a dealer installed option. The system is very integrated into the rest of the car, and would require pretty much an entire re-wire of the whole vehicle. Sync has capabilities well beyond what it has right now - or so we were told.

 

I spoke with the VP of vehicle personalization at Ford last week and got an off the record answer about this. The Sync kit for 2009 will work in a 2008 Job 2 Mustang with Nav, and probably regular radio, but you won't be able to talk to it. You will be able to use the USB drives, browse selections on screen, use bluetooth phone and talk and hear through the vehicle's speakers. But you will not be able to use the voice recognition to talk to the car and tell it "play track etc".

 

2008 Job 2 - That's me! Got the nav with the phone button and I see what looks like microphones built in near the map lights.

As long as I can also hook up my Zune and control it through the radio, i'm in!

 

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/s...-mustang-next/

 

I'll be ordering it when it comes out and installing in my Mustang, which is an '08 job 2 with nav. So i'll let you know how it goes.

 

The "phone" button is a Mute button...to use when you talk on the phone...it doesn't have anything to do with bluetooth or any other phone related stuff...

those aren't microphones by the map lights..those are the holes for the intrusion detection system....