acensor
Well-known member
It's my understanding that all automotive radios do have an auxilary aduio input .. That if the auto manufacturer didn't run it out to a 3.5mm standard stereo audio input jack on the dash that it's still there somewhere in back of the radio.
Is so, if I could get to it without a nightmare or breaking anything, it should be not hard to wire a input jack to it and install the jack on the dash (as IMO MiEV should've done standard in the first place).
The reason I'm interested in this it would seem to be a superior way to get my wife's iPad audio into our MiEV SE's nice audio system, compared to --as I've been dialoging about elsewhere in this group -- either the FM transmitter route (subject to poor quality and static) or installing a USB port (problem with that is the MiEV's one-line LCD and quirky controls for navigating into the MP3's and finding and playing what you want).
(Yeah, bluetooth might've been the nicest way to interface, but that's not an option now.)
So the questions I have here are:
# How hard is it to get to the back and side of the MiEV SE's radio?
Slam dunk? Nightmare of broken plastic tabs and skinned fingers and "never got it to seat back in right?" Or somewhere inbetween. Thought I saw once some directions/pictures on doing that here, but the search feature in our forum doesn't work that well and I can't re-find that.
# Does anyone have specific knowledge/confirmation that the SE radio does have a audio input on the side or back buried behind the dash.
Anyone?
Alex
Is so, if I could get to it without a nightmare or breaking anything, it should be not hard to wire a input jack to it and install the jack on the dash (as IMO MiEV should've done standard in the first place).
The reason I'm interested in this it would seem to be a superior way to get my wife's iPad audio into our MiEV SE's nice audio system, compared to --as I've been dialoging about elsewhere in this group -- either the FM transmitter route (subject to poor quality and static) or installing a USB port (problem with that is the MiEV's one-line LCD and quirky controls for navigating into the MP3's and finding and playing what you want).
(Yeah, bluetooth might've been the nicest way to interface, but that's not an option now.)
So the questions I have here are:
# How hard is it to get to the back and side of the MiEV SE's radio?
Slam dunk? Nightmare of broken plastic tabs and skinned fingers and "never got it to seat back in right?" Or somewhere inbetween. Thought I saw once some directions/pictures on doing that here, but the search feature in our forum doesn't work that well and I can't re-find that.
# Does anyone have specific knowledge/confirmation that the SE radio does have a audio input on the side or back buried behind the dash.
Anyone?
Alex