Does my car have a aux ?

i wont get to feel around amazon uk wont ship those products to the republic of ireland the amount of vat they would have charged me anyway wasnt worth it and customs over here just aswell i guess i will just save up and go to a garage near here and get them to do it might take a while though

thanks for the advice anyway

i might just stick to cd's either for a bit there is no rush ...

That is very much down to personal taste. I've listened to stuff through FM transmitters and the quality is awful compared to an AUX lead, which itself isn't as good as straight off the CD. The link I posted was to something for less than twelve quid - which would buy you a really ****ty FM transmitter. You're talking about fifty quid for one which might even resemble good quality, but even then that's entirely dependant on the level of radio traffic in the area. Plugging the wire I linked to into the back of the radio will cost the OP less for marginally more time and effort.

Honestly, it sounds fine. You'd be hard pushed to tell some of the tracks weren't from a cd. Works best with batteries though.

I use it with a Cowon iAudio 7 and have a mixture of 320kbps, vbr and flac files. The worst sounding are usually from older mp3's.
As you say, it also depends on the level of interference in the local area, I must have lucked out because I don't get any. My car is naturally noisy, being a soft top, so i'm not being an audiophile here, and I doubt the OP cares either.

Of course a wired solution will always be better, sound wise and because aux cables cost a couple quid. But it sounds as if the OP is after a quick solution they can do themselves. For someone who isn't technically minded, trying to get a set of radio keys, removing the stereo, unplugging, finding the aux (which may or may not be there!) routing an aux cable, replacing everything back in position... it's a lot of work for a newbie.

For £13 off Amazon, i'd say the Jivo fm transmitter is easily worth a punt.

Honestly, pulling a head unit from the dash is one of most simple tasks you can do on a car. The plug for the cable is there, because it was an optional upgrade for cars with that model of stereo, and Ford simply charged you a hundred odd quid for a wire behind the dashboard. Routing the wiring is easy too. It's hardly rebuilding the engine. Like I said, if you've removed a head unit before it can be done in under half an hour, if not then possibly more like 45 minutes. I've made a head unit wiring loom from scratch in one of my cars, and heavily modified the loom in another, and taken the same head unit with me in all three of my cars because it's a bloody good one that I got half price and I love it to bits. With a bit of patience and logic then car wiring really isn't that hard, you just need to stop and think about it for a moment. Plugging a wire into the back of the head unit is child's play.

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The experience I have with FM transmitters has led me to believe that they aren't worth spending money on, when there's often a cheap and relatively simple higher-quality solution, albeit not so plug and play.

I do understand what you're saying, but you know what you're doing. And before you learnt what to do, you probably didn't mind having a play around with the wires, and weren't scared of the potential consquences (i.e. everything breaking).

Being female I understand that some girls are scared to/won't want to poke around with their car, unless someone else is there to save the day when it all goes wrong!

It's the fear of doing something wrong that puts many people off. It's all very well to say it's easy, but if you don't know what you're looking for, don't understand the loom colours etc, it's somewhat challenging.

This is common with Ford. My headunit also has an AUX button but there's no socket in the glovebox. Apparently the wiring is all there in the back and if you are handy enough to take the headunit out and look behind you can wire it through from behind. I however, would probably end up breaking something.

Bizzare cost cutting techniques from Ford. Same story with footwell lights, most of the cars actually have the brackets and are wired up, just no bulbs!

hi i have a ford ka 02 reg it has no cd player but a radio and a ciggerette lighter plug thing. How can i play music from my Ipod to my car???????????