[s-cars] Car stereo blues & installing an Ipod

[Charles Baer]

The V8 Bose components are just the front door speaker enclosures and
the self-immolating rear deck units.  The connectors on the back of the
head unit are a VAG-family standard.  I bought VW adapter plug to put a
Sony head in my non-Blose avant and spliced it to the head unit plug wires.
The so-called Bose head in my V8 and my 200q20v are Audi standard
Gammas with silkscreened badge-engineering.

This looks like the kit that connects the 3 plugs for the back of the 
VAG radios:
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-eFIGH5sRQCs/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=103000&I=120701759.

That Pac adapter looks more like the connectors in my Durmax 3/4 ton 
diesel whale.

Charlie

chris chambers wrote:

>Fellow S dudes,
>
>Does my 93 UrS4 have the same Bose car stereo as a 93 V8? The reason I
>want to know is while on http://www.crutchfield.com I found out they
>didn't have an option for a 93 S4 so used the 93 V8 to find the
>following information.
>
>In my quest to integrate my Ipod into my car stereo I discovered the
>Alpine KCA-420i. This neat little product not only provides a way to
>get your music from the Ipod into the car stereo, but also controls the
>Ipod using the controls built into an Alpine car stereo.
>
>http://www.crutchfield.com/S-wqVhEsGfkY0/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?s=0&cc=01&i=500KCA420I&o=&a=
>
>I'm looking at using it with the Alpine CDA-9847
>http://www.crutchfield.com/S-wqVhEsGfkY0/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=62700&id=other_items&i=500CDA9847
>
>Yes you have to have an Alpine stereo to use this. But the other thing
>I learned while perusing Crutchfield's website is that there now seems
>to be an adapter that can be used to interface the factory Bose system
>with a new head unit. This adapter is nade by Pac audio and is called
>the Pac OEM 2.
>
>http://www.pac-audio.com/products/oem1.htm
>
>So fellow S-car nutz, does this Pac OEM2 look like a good route to go,
>or is there some reason that I will cause me to replace the entire
>system in order to install an aftermarket head unit?
>  
>