I need a cunning solution to my car audio problems

[Greg12]

I have a, i guess u'd call it vintage, '84 Crown Victoria.


The mahagony finnish on the dashboard is unsratched.

Unfortuantly the radio is an old knob tunning system. This works fine in the morning as i like to listen to 630 WMAL.

In the afternoon and on the road, i'd like to play CD's

Is their any options i have besides installing a player.


The car, though old, has a fully functioning power system that supplies 3 cig lighters.


Might I add that our school has had 6 stolen cars and 6 broken into cars.

Ney solution would need to be portable.

[wellmashed]

Does your existing radio have a cassette deck ?

If so then you can buy an adapter that is a cassette that you slot into your cassette deck as usual with a cable coming out of it that plugs into a portable cd player (i.e.sony diskman) that will play from cd player through cassette deck's tapehead.

If not then why not hook up a diskman type cd player to a 12v amplifier and wire it to your car speakers........

[Tommy]

I would personally install a cd deck somewhere in the car. If you don't want people to see it hide it. Or you could get a deck with removable faceplate or something similar. However since thats not your question..... I have seen some transmitters (its been a while). Basically you plug your cd or whatever into the transmitter (normally with a standard plug) and it works sort of like a mr. microphone. Set the carradio to x on the dial to pick it up. I don't know what these things are called I haven't used one but a friend of mine picked one up at circuit city. Bacially it was made to tie in a portable DVD player into a cars sound system without any physical connections.

[twonabomber]

nah, those transmitters don't work for shit. friend of mine tried one in his 97 S10, full of noise, nowhere near a good enough signal. i'd think something like this FM modulator would work, http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/pshowdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=205-215 , but maybe not too well without a digital tuner. plug in a Discman and you got it.

[zzyzzx]

Get a head unit with a removable faceplate. And get a CD changer and hide the changer.

[nvost361]

The tuning adapter is the best option. My dad has one that sounds perfect. How it works is that you plug in your personal cd player to a so-called "radio transmitter" then tune in your radio to say 90.5 fm and it will pick up the signal and play your cd's.

[sullen]

Get a changer that works through the radio input. Aren't their changers that go in between the antenna in and the radio you currently have where when you have the changer off you get the radio, but when you turn on the changer it blocks the antenna in and you get the CD? I could have sworn that was how some of them worked as an "add-on" CD player. I could be wrong. Check it out.