iPod interface v aux input - which to go for? (UK)
01-04-2007, 05:18 AM
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Originally Posted by subterFUSE' post='373503' date='Jan 4 2007, 09:03 AM
Try listening to an iPod plugged into the cigarette charger, and you'll understand. The alternator noise is horrible.
01-04-2007, 06:28 AM
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Originally Posted by ImolaRedM' post='373505' date='Jan 4 2007, 09:18 AM
Funny... I have no bleed from the alternator when I used the 12v outlet and AUX. I did have much lower audio quality on the AUX than when using the MOST bus adapter but it wasn't from electrical noise (unlike in my Land Rover). You may have a ground issue or a bad diode on your alternator.
When the opporunity arisis, please do the following:
Plug in iPod. Press pause. Turn up volume on car stereo to full. Press accelerator pedal. Report back any noise heard.
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01-04-2007, 02:04 PM
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My Ride: 530i MSport Auto, June 05, Silver, Black dakota leather, Hi-fi, Media package, Electric folding mirrors, Maple wood
Thought you guys had gone off this thread...but as you're still around: the car is being fitted with iPod connector tomorrow. I've had some pretty bad luck with this car (owned it for 2 months, been off the road for 4 weeks!) so I'm prepared to be disappointed/infuriated. Loved my E39 so much...
Half the time off the road has been niggling faults (including the CD changer, now replaced) but the last couple of weeks was courtesy of my neighbour - he drove his friend's car across my front garden, into my house and glanced the 530i's front. Amazingly he missed the metalwork - just a new front wheel, alignment check and repainted bumper (just over ?1,000). But if you think it's bad for me, my neighbour was uninsured!
Nick
Half the time off the road has been niggling faults (including the CD changer, now replaced) but the last couple of weeks was courtesy of my neighbour - he drove his friend's car across my front garden, into my house and glanced the 530i's front. Amazingly he missed the metalwork - just a new front wheel, alignment check and repainted bumper (just over ?1,000). But if you think it's bad for me, my neighbour was uninsured!
Nick
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