For a while I’ve been irritated that I could not connect my phone into the stereo in my car.  I’ve been using a Satechi BT Ultimate FM transmitter.  However since the bird’s aux ports are always hot half the time it blows the fuse in the transmitter.  I had gotten in the habit of keeping a half dozen or so fuses around to fix the transmitter.  Problem is…these fuses are a bit over a buck each.  So I probably feed it 20+ a month in fuses.  I thought it time I do something about that.

I went to my local Radio Shack and picked up a 1/8″ panel mount jack that was a 3 conductor closed circuit.  I was determined to install this in the car so I could use my modern tech with the old OEM head unit without spending hundreds and hundreds on a new unit.

I pulled the head unit and started to break it down.  What I found was not as expected.  Wires were normally white and black.  I had everything in red.  At least they were keeping in the pontiac spirit.

A little research later and I found out that despite the color, the pin out is still the same.  So I snipped off the left channel and pulled out a piece of CAT5 to use as an extention.  Here is a nice soldering of the left channel cables.

After heat wrapping those connections I did the same to the right channel resulting in this.

Once I put everything back in it’s place I buttoned up the head unit and went to work on the other end of the cable.  I used the switch and tagged all the appropriate items on the tabs then soldered them into place.

I slapped the unit hack in the car and plugged the phone into it with pandora running.  I was so estatic that I sat there almost an hour listening to it before I decided to come back in.

Right now the cable is just hanging out in front of everything but when I have the time I need to tuck it up and hide  the connection away.