Did you try switching the head unit to cd while the iPod was playing? Maybe it has to detect an audio signal before it will activate. Just a thought...

 

Goes in the back of the radio. Either way, it wont work. I emailed the vendor and they said I could send them back. I think their banking on people not taking the time to return a $14 product to make some cash...

 

how did you manage to make yours work?

 

I bought this for my 2003 disco from e bay. It sits in the tape deck so is the carrage for the i pod and has an AUX socket for my andriod. it only cost $39. Also means i can use the steering wheel controls as well. Well worth the money.

 

I have the same tape line in solution. The sound is phenomenal through my Android 2 Global. I will say to make sure you get the Sony brand tape. Don't settle for the cheap, no name tapes.

 

any idea if the tape deck line in will work if your tape deck does not play tapes?

 

Here's how I got it to "work". Stripped the wires that came on the ebay harness and soldered them to pins 14, 13, and 16/17 on the original 8pin blue plug on the back of the radio harness. You have to keep a CD playing while you want to use the aux. The best thing would be 1 track that spanned a CD with repeat on. Yes, it's a hack but it's $15 bucks rather than $70 to $130 solutions. One guy I saw did the same and did a switch to toggle between CD playback and aux...

Oh, and from what I read, the Alpine MBUS looks for a signal from the changer via one wire. I think providing a constant voltage to that pin on the same harness might be the "trigger" without having to use the CD trick. Anybody want to try?

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/PluginAlpineCDC
http://kiora.ath.cx/alpine/