ipods and mustangs

Man it has been a while huh? It must be due to the summer slow down or the fact that I’ve just not known what to write about lately even though things have been hectic. The biggest thing I’ve noticed is that my blog has not been the only stagnant one, seems we are all in the same boat lately ..

Last week I broke down and bought an ipod adapter that interfaces into my car stereo so the stereo controls the ipod. It is really cool but there are bugs that need to be addressed with it. The adapter for whatever reason loses its connection memory and will not find the ipod after you shut the car off. The work around is to unplug the speed volume connector ..

Speed Volume is a function mainly for convertibles where the radio volume gets louder and softer with the speed of the car..this way wind and road noise do not over ride the radio. Seems like an easy enough temporary fix, hell I don’t have a convertible anyway so I unplugged it and it worked like a charm ..

Well ..so I thought .. Next day off to work I went and the ipod started up without issue, I put in my 8 hours for the day. Upon leaving work that way which was a typical mid 90s humidity soaked new england summer day I would get a bit of an eye opener ..

I jumped into a heat filled car started it up and whacked on my ac at full power, off I went …
When I looked down to set my eyes upon the dash board I got the shock .. Every gage light was on in my car, No dash lights were working, no internal directional lights, and worst of all ..no air conditioning .. Ever have a moment of panic? Well I certainly did and all I could think was " Oh crap I fried my computer"

When I got it home I should have just thought to pull the adapter out and see if it corrected itself .. but I set out on a mission hoping I had just blown a fuse or something,.. See I had the dash apart so many damn times I really didn’t feel like pulling it apart again .. When I finally did that it repaired the problem and I redid the ipod adapter 1 last time…. It works great and I can only assume the disconnected cable came in contact with something and caused the mishap ..

Todays lesson … a 2006 mustang dash comes apart rather quickly ….especially when you can do it in your sleep ..