FM Transmitter
 

Anyone have any luck with these?

Im talking about the ones you stick in the car lighter for anyone that dosent know.....

I tried 2 and got horrible static 80% of the time on ANY radio frequency.

1st I got some cheap mercury, sucked, took it back and dished out $50 on a philips thinking it would help....which it didnt.

My cousin has a belkin on his stock cd player in his 2002ish 4runner and it sounds alot better than mine.....tried his in my truck and it still sucked.

so im guessing my deck just sucks....anything I can do other than get a new deck?

its a pioneer deh-p6400

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what exactly are you looking to do? better FM or wireless connection with an add-on?

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better FM

thenormal radio plays fine

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Probably a ground issue...

IMO, FM transmitters are pointless... What's the point of a high quality source, if you're going to use low quality broadcasting? lol.

But anywhos, try it on the same frequency your buddy uses...

Also, have him playing something with it, and park close, see if you still get the interference

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i tried every frequency there was.....and i want 1000 songs in my ride for $30....that is the reason.


cant do....hes workin in manitoba now.

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Ahhhh, then see if what happens if you use some pieces of wire and power the transmitter from the battery, instead of the cig. lighter...

That'll tell you if it's your cig. lighter that's got the ground issues

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Never had any luck with the FM transmitter for the ipod. Once you finally get it locked into a good frequency, it gets static-y again. Resume the search for a better frequency...listen to half a song...static.

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ya.....guess im just dreamin.....

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buy a pioneer ip bus cord and plug it into your cd player. thats what i did...

http://akamaipix.crutchfield.com/pro...9piorca-f.jpeg

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I did that with my Alpine, too, best decision I ever made for that thing...

It also comes in handy when using a portable DVD player!

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Wife just came home with one that someone left behind in one of the apartments when they moved out. Just tried it with my home receiver and it works like a charm, will keep you updated once we try it in the Blazer.

http://www.cygnett.com/gfx/products/...eStation-2.jpghttp://www.cygnett.com/gfx/products/...eStation-1.jpg

FM Transmitter from Cygnett

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pretty cool

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My buddy has this same deck in his jeep and he couldnt get any FM trasmitters to work with it. For some reason that deck doesnt receive well from those. We finally got him to get the ip bus cord and it works like a champ.

Actually now that i think about it i had the same issue with my pioneer deck when i first got sirius. I couldnt get reception to save my butt but i got the ip connector after a week and its been smooth sailing since.

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Crutchfield.com is good. I have had good luck with the people there.

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damn you pioneer!!!!!

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I has decent luck with an FM transmitter. It was the style that plugged into the bottom of my iPod. The nice fetaure was that you could change the wavelength instead of having three or four preset ones. Sometimes I had great reception, and other times it wasn't very good at all. That cganged when I bought a new Pioner deck (DEH-4900IB) and an iPod interface cable. It works great... no more having to scroll through the iPod now that I can use the head unit itself.

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I tried the whole FM transmitter thing with the stock stereo. It sucked going on long road trips cause you got to change the station when you get static, especially by the high powered power lines. So before I switched to the new deck I just got a cassette adapter and that worked great. Once I got the new Blaupunkt deck I just got the RCA in cable which works great.

I think you could look to see if you have the cassette player wiring and figure out what the wiring is and wireup your own adapter for Left and Right audio, you would have to do some research on that. Hope this helps.