iPod FM transmitters for cars

Anyone have experience with these? Any good ones?

I have a Griffin iTrip.

Works fine, and I like it because it's little and powered from the pod (or phone in my case).

Your results will vary in direct proportion to how busy your local FM dial is, however. This nice thing about the iTrip is that you can vary the frequency rather finely to find a good spot.

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I used to have an older iTrip. Nice packaging and the wireless aspect is very cool - but it was a little hard on battery life. Looks like the new one tunes better than the old ones did, they were a little awkward.

Now, I use a tape adapter. There's never any problem with finding an open station. I used to find that on road trips I'd keep bumping into local stations and having to retune. Of course, you need a vehicle with a tape deck and that's probably harder to find on them newfangled stereos.

I'd highly recommend the hard wired FM modulators. Slightly harder to install, but 100% worth it. You never have to retune, it doesn't drain your batt. etc. Those wireless transmitters drive me batty w/ all the static and constant retuning. From the no name ones to a Monster brand. They're all annoying.

Of course, you can't take it w/ you...

http://www.amazon.com/Scosche-Audio-FM-Modulator-Universal/dp/B0007THIDQ/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1231006410&sr=8-1#

Another vote for the itrip. Mine is a few years old, charges the I pod's battery and works in every car i put it in. It only takes a couple of seconds to find a FM band that won't give you problems. And they are cheap. Can't beat that.

Thanks all. I'll check out the iTrip. Looks like they have one that plugs into the ciggie lighter.

I would like to use one that goes to the aux-in on the radio. Unfortunately, my radio doesn't have an aux-in ;)

14 hours in the car to Florida starting tomorrow might be a bad idea without the iPod ;)

Depending on your car, there may be a better solution. I just got an add on line-in for my Subaru stereo. Gong to install it tomorrow. It taps into the CD changer circuit between the CD and amp

+1 for hard wired. It works infinitely better. There is only a slight difference between a wired modulator and some sort of CD changer-proxy, which is what I have in my wife's car.

DILYSI Dave wrote: Depending on your car, there may be a better solution. I just got an add on line-in for my Subaru stereo. Gong to install it tomorrow. It taps into the CD changer circuit between the CD and amp

Details, yo.

Oh, and rabble rabble iPods rabble rabble

My iPod came with a transmitter that plugs into the headphone jack and runs off of 2 AAA batteries. I use it in my Subaru, which still has a stock AM/FM/tape radio. It works fine, very little static, haven't had it long enough to complain about battery life. MUCH better than the tape cassette adapter I had been using with my old MP3 player. When I get around to replacing my RX-7's stereo, I'll have an iPod hard-wire installed.

problemaddict wrote: I'd highly recommend the hard wired FM modulators. Slightly harder to install, but 100% worth it. You never have to retune, it doesn't drain your batt. etc. Those wireless transmitters drive me batty w/ all the static and constant retuning. From the no name ones to a Monster brand. They're all annoying

+1.....Hard wired FM is the way to go.....

If you're going hard-wired FM transmitters, it's almost as easy to install a head unit with a line-in 1/8" jack on the front, or even one that is an iPod controller that plugs into the bottom port of the iPod. This way you get much better sound quality. But they are expensive when compared to an FM transmitter and harder to install.