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Old 01-22-2017, 04:25 PM
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I recently retrofit an AUX into my e60. Radio sounds fine but when I plug in my ipod to the aux it sounds awful. I have to turn the AUX volume all the way up as well as the car sound. I will then hear the music but it is very low, a lot of static and sounds very flat.
I have tried different AUX cables and I get the same results. Please help!
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did you code the system, I'm guessing you did if you're able to switch over to AUX feature, and also bypassed the capacitors soldiered inline?
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I didn't change the production date but did an FA_WRITE to LMA and CAS $6VA and $609 to get the cic ecu. Radio works fine as well as CD. Aux sounds like garbage though. I go into cd/multimedia and have the AUX FRONT so its there to choose as an option. Not quite sure what you mean by the bypass the capacitors soldered inline
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Are you able to remove the Aux cable, the headphone input jack side, and follow the wire down a few inches. You will see a budge that's wrapped inside the black tape.

Inside there, you can cut away the capacitor/resistor...whatever it is, and just get rid of it. and connect your cable back. So it's a straight connection.

If you don't have that budge, then you should be ok. Have you tried a different audio cable with a different device just to see?


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