Anyone know anything about car stereos?

[Knipples]

Originally Posted by A Place of Light

Would an iTrip do the job?

Having had both an itrip and now an aux cable on the front of a stereo I had fitted to the car, I would never go back to an itrip.

The amount of sound quality you lose having to have it transmitted rather than directly plugged in is huge. Plus with an itrip, travel anymore than about 20 miles and you need to retune it due to other radio frequencies interfering with it.

[Desmo]

Have you looked at something like this?

http://www.sendstation.com/us/produc...neout-usb.html

It's still only using the 3.5mm jack but it comes from the direct line-out socket rather than the headphone jack. It's meant to be a better quality but never heard it myself.

[Justsomebloke]

Originally Posted by Feek

Not all 3.5mm jacks plugs are built equally. You could just have a slightly off spec plug on the cable which isn't seating correctly in your aux input.

This ^^
I've had it before with No explanation at all apart from Piss poor Quality standards at the manufacturers.
The way I overcome the problem was to slip a tiny rubber band I hand around the end of the plug which held it out the perfect distance. ******** thing.