Audio ?

[bro]

Hi mustang people,

This is my first post, here's the deal. My little brother has a 2002 with the mach sound system in it. His cd changer stoped working and he has a door speaker blown. I took out the player and took it apart and saved his cd's. Unplugged the blown speaker also so he could listen to the radio without the crackle of the blown speaker. I post this for this reason, he don't ever ask's for much and I would like to hook him up and suprise him, I've had mustangs in the past and I can wire and build anything reasonable. He said he would like to just through an ipod in there, but I'm lost on the new electronics. I searched a bit and found out how to replace the factory radio with an aftermarket one in a well written arcticle by mes7.
I have an amp and a sub sitting here and I was thinking about removing his rear speakers and moving one of them up front to replace the blown one in the door and adding the sub in the rear along with a ipod? After reading the how to replace the radio arcticle, I'm thinking due to the way the amps run, it may be easier to just rewire the whole car off an aftermarket ipod deck using the reciever power to run the front and adding the amp and sub to the rear. I didn't get a chance to hear this mach system at it's best, I went out to try to get a cd out and was annoyed by the blown door speaker. He never complained about the factory system, should I replace the factory radio and blown speaker? If so how much and where can I get these, or would it be best to just go old school on him and build what I know how to do. And finally what is "throwing an ipod in there? "
Thanks

 

[ChingonStang]

If you replace the factory head unit and speaker, check ebay for the parts. Throwing a iPod in there is more than likely referring to adding a iPod to the existing factory stereo. There are many ways this can be accomplished and tons adapter configurations. The easiest being a wired fm modulator.

Of course, there are other ways to do it.

 

[bro]

Thanks chingon, sounds like you can add the ipod like adding a cd player to a factory cassette radio, makes sense, just a way to convert the sig, totally SQ less but plays the music. I don't know what he life expectancy is on these changers but I just talked with my mom after I posted this and her mercury SUV is failing to, same radio. Shame I've owned alot of foxbodys never had any probs with the radio's, only replaced them because I wanted to. Everything seems disposable these days, maybe I'm just getting old, my first aftermarket cd payer went through 2 cars and a truck and never failed, then again amps had heatsinks and 10 sec cars had carbs. Thanks.