Rough Draft

iPod in my Civic

Last week I ordered the PIE HON98-AUX and I installed it in my 2004 Honda Civic Saturday afternoon. I originally learned about this accessory from this blog that details installing it in a 2001 Civic. I later found this page with photos of a 2004 Civic install. I ended up using those pictures as guidance, and didn't need to take the head unit out as the instructions for the 2001 Civic described. The entire installation took about an hour and a half. Getting the center console apart was pretty easy. The hard part was finding the right angle to fit my hand up behind the head unit, finding the port I needed to plug the cable into, and then finally getting my hand and the cable up there such that I could actually plug it in. I really thought I was going to end up taking the head unit out, but finally I able to get the cable plugged in.

After the install, I went for a quick drive to give it a listen and everything sounded good. I got clear sound both having the iPod plugged into my firewire cigarette adapter and just running off the iPod battery. I had read quite a few comments on various message boards about people getting static in various situations, but my setup seems pretty static free and sounds great. Now I just need to order the combined USB/Firewire cigarette adapter so I can have either my 3rd Generation iPod or iPod shuffle plugged in.

I took a few pictures of the installation process, and used this as an excuse to finally set up a flickr account. Perhaps this will inspire me to use my camera a bit more. Also, I used Flickr Export to upload directly from iPhoto to Flickr, pretty spiffy.