fitting a radio with mp3 lead?

Just to update this and say thanks to Mick Happydays, I finally got a Radiomobile/mp3 fitted. Using Micks photos and 2x10 ohm resistors I tried firstly on my 5 button Radiomobile 1085 with no joy, tried the same wiring on my reserve 3 button (lw/mw/tone) Radiomobile 80 and result, excellent. Then of course I had to change the crappy old paper and comb speakers and install. When in the car the radio was shocking, after taking it out and testing on the bench again, I reinstalled it, very poor radio, I was about to take the bloody thing out again and throw it at the wall when I remembered the aerial was retracted :oops: and also being parked in the garage didn't help. I now have a working system.
Thanks again Mick :D Now to visit Radio Shack on Wednesday to get some more resistors, another mp3 lead, and perform some further exploratory surgery on the 1085.......

John.
 
Thats good news john , tunes in the P6 is a must in the winter, summer is no problem , I leave the window open and listen to the sound. Did you manage to download you record collection to your ipod, bet them 78's are a bugger to do :D
 
Further update to this thread, I got my 1085 working and installed, then yesterday I was using my mp3 out of the car listening to the radio, when I put it back in the car the radio from the mp3 came through my speakers. Now this to you techies might be Duh! so what's new statement, but to a technomuppet like me it was a parting of the clouds and illumination of me and the car moment! Of course the headphones are the aerial, and in the car the fly lead takes this role, so reception was a bit iffy as I have a short male ended lead to directly connect the mp3. Today using a female to female adaptor and a long lead I now have mp3 or FM radio coming out of my speakers even when parked in the garage. Result. :LOL:
 
Hi
I have a cassette which plays mp3 from a SD card plugged into it, its re-chargeble and has a USB for the PC and also has a headphone socket for stand alone use you can set it playing and use it like a cassette, but cannot charge it or skip tracks whilst its in the car, it was pretty cheap from one of those japanese ebay pages.
 
What's the sound quality like ? I had one of those cassette convertors with a CD walkman years ago and it was pretty poor
 
The sound qualty s not bad but it can be effected by which way up the cassette thing is, I guess tape head aglinnment , the battery n the thing is not very good, so it helps f you have a cassette player where the end of the tape sticks out to connect the power lead, butsayng that they are cheap, the radio modulator is a wired one, they seem to work better than the wreless ones, but are still effected by igntion nose, i dont have any supressors fitted to the car so that mav get improved, stll got to do some real testing, gonna take one of thes cassette things to bts to see f it can be improved
 
now for something different...

I had the same problem as you guys, not in a Rover though. Original AM radio in a near perfect dashboard.

I had seen a very cluey guy called Kev install a headunit that looks "period" with an iPod jack:

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/forum/v ... start=1320

I went for something different, I hid a new headunit in the glovebox. Now I have bluetooth, a remote, an MP3 player and a USB slot all in one. Plus I got one of the tech guys at work to whip me up an aerial splitter, so I use the same aerial to provide a signal to the original AM radio and the new headunit. Works a treat.

see here:

http://ewokracing.tumblr.com/

and

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/forum/v ... &start=260
 
Had the same issue...period radio that i didnt want to screw with.
Just wanted the simplest way for some tunes.
Thought I would move into the 21st century and go for an mp3 player rather than cd's...no cases to worry about or lost/scratched cd's.
Cane up with the following solution




The only downside so far is the single speaker I have at the rear...I thought it would have been enough (it's loud enough), but some components of songs lack depth (naturally).
The problem is where to realistically place another speaker without butchering the car.
 

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I have the speaker in the back (parcel shelf) and one under the radio behind the grille. Im not overly bothered about the sound being spot on as long as i can hear it, thats good enough for me.
 
Choice!!
Will look closely at locating the 2nd speaker there.
I'm a lot like you in regards it just has to be heard...dont need all the whizbang audiophile stuff.
 
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