Hello guys

i recently bought a Skoda Fabia vRS (2005) for the girlfriend who is going to move in with me and as a result will have to drive further to her work.

Add the moment she drives a 2002 Fiat Punto with an original Blaupunkt radio with cassette. At the time I bought her a mp3 player she was able to connect via a special cassette which transfers the sound from the mp3 player to the radio.She is really fond of it somehow.

In the Fabia an aftermarket Pioneer DEH-4700MP (CD/MP3) is installed. She really likes the car, but would prefer a built in radio for a more elegant/ original look and a casette player to be able to play here mp3. She really doesn't like cds laying around in the car (looks messy).

I did some research , found some usefull info in the Fabia I part of the forum and found the MS 402 , specs can be found on the following link : Official link MS402

While searching on Ebay.de it also found a Grundig cassette player that was available for the fabia at a certain time.

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Link of the radio on Ebay : Skoda Radio/cassette

Any other models that can be installed? Maybe more recent radio's (altough i would think everything is equipped with cd nowadays).

I can imagine the real ICE fans get the shiffers when hearing "Cassette" so if there are alternative ways of getting the mp3 player/SD card/ USB stick to work with an original Skoda fabia CD player (which looks a bit more up to date to me), let me know what the options are. I'm a bit of a noob i confess..

Anyway, thanks in advance for the responds and i apoligize for my english.

Regards

Thomas

Edited 12 March, 201016 yr by Niche

Many if not most radios since about 2002 have come equipped with an aux input either on the front facia or back of the head unit. If you can find one that your gf likes with an aux input regradless of whether it has a CD player then she can plug the mp3 into the aux using a 3.5mm - 3.5mm stereo cable and she will get music via the radio. This would be a much better solution than sticking with the cassette adapter which at the best of times were only okay as far as sound quality was concerned.

Dear Thomas,

I am going to take a "Stream MP3" radio out of my Octavia Laurin and Klement.

It will play CD's burned with MP3 files directly, and additionally it comes with an "auxilliary input" which your girlfriend could use to connect the MP3 directly to the stereo.

If you are interested, I might be open to sensible offers.

Hope it helps,

Gavin

Dear Thomas,

I am going to take a "Stream MP3" radio out of my Octavia Laurin and Klement.

It will play CD's burned with MP3 files directly, and additionally it comes with an "auxilliary input" which your girlfriend could use to connect the MP3 directly to the stereo.

If you are interested, I might be open to sensible offers.

Hope it helps,

Gavin

Wont fit the Fabia I am afraid, totally different shape.

The Fabia would have had the Fabia version of the symphony headunit from new, this is a Radio CD system, but the octy mk1 version of the headunit was a radio cassette unit.

Blaupunct woodstocks?

would an alpha from a polo fit?

you need to fit a gramaphone! you could play all your old 78's

Dont know if this helps but our Fabia had an MS402 cassette unit fitted from new and it definitely does NOT have an aux input (it's currently in the garage for that reason). However we wanted both a cassette player (for the kiddies song tapes) and a CD player so I got an Octavia Mk1 Symphony cassette unit (aka MS501) and fitted that with a CD changer in the boot. The Octavia Symphony is a single din unit rather than a din-and-a-bit so I initially hafitted the Skoda trim 'filler above it to fill the gap left but subsequently cvhanged to a Connects2 radio surround and cubby unit. Details here:

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