Ok, I'm a bloke but not very techincally minded when it comes to cars - give me a mountain bike any day.

So, I'm trying to connect my mp3 player to the AUX IN to my factory fitted Skoda car sterio. Its the standard x6 CD Changer and not MP3 compatible but does have an AUX IN ON / OFF as its displayed on the menu options. But can i find where the hell the AUX IN socket is in the car ? can I heck, its like trying to ask the wife where she lives on a map.

Glove box, nope.

center console, can't see it

under the steering column or at the side, could be hiding in there somewhere

in the boot behind the cd changer, dam !

it won, I give up, other people have tried looking and sacked it off after 5 mins.

Where am i going wrong, can you help?, if so please respond or just torment me for the rest of my life.

Google was no help.

Welcome to Briskoda - and I'm afraid I'm the bearer of bad news, because you don't have an Aux In even though it's in the menu options.

Sorry!

In an Octy the Aux in is in the arm rest between the front 2 seats. If you do not have one of these then you will not have an Aux In even if it is an option on the stereo.

Only the stream mp3 has aux in.

May try this one day.

thanks for the replies.

blackadder said it best....."bugger"

I've added an aux in to my Stream non-mp3 radio. Just hijacked the feed from the CD changer and fed it through a switch I fitted to one of the switch blanks over the ashtray to allow the source to come from either a jack plug I put in another of the switch blanks or the CD changer. Only downside is the sound feed goes silent while the CD changer changes CDs and the CD changer must be running all the time for the feed from the Aux plug to be played, but not a difficult job at all. There are a few threads on this around the forum including one with the part number for the switch you need to swap sources from Maplin. Only visible external change to the car is a toggle switch and a flush fitted jack plug in two of the switch blanks over the ashtray.

Another option is to install a Connects2 adapter: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SKODA-FABIA-OCTAVIA-MP3-IPOD-AUX-ADAPTOR-CTVSKX003-/300376755833

It's fairly straight-forward to set up.

You lose the CD changer, but once you've got the ability to connect up an mp3 player the changer is more or less redundant anyway.

I read on here somewhere that you get some hissing through the speakers from using an ipod or similar device through the headphone jack, is this true?

Edited 22 September, 201015 yr by martziniuk

thanks for the info.

i'll try the connects 2 adaptor.

I read on here somewhere that you get some hissing through the speakers from using an ipod or similar device through the headphone jack, is this true?

This is true - the hiss from ipods is ridiculous, luckily my iRiver and mobile phone both have decent amplifiers in them, so no hiss from either of them.

I read on here somewhere that you get some hissing through the speakers from using an ipod or similar device through the headphone jack, is this true?

I have heard the same, so for my ipod I bought a cable which has the proper iPod adapter on one end, so you plug it into the long thin socket on the bottom of the iPod (which treats it like a line-out, or a speaker dock) and not from the headphone socket. The cable cost (IIRC) £15 from Maplin

The signal from out of the headphone socket is different to what you get from a line-out. With the line out you don't control the volume using the iPod, and there is no hiss.

Also if you plug in through the headphone socket of an iPod, you may have the added problem of the headphone volume limiter

Edited 23 September, 201015 yr by Wet Kipper

This is true - the hiss from ipods is ridiculous, luckily my iRiver and mobile phone both have decent amplifiers in them, so no hiss from either of them.

Ah, not experienced any hiss, but I also have an iRiver (HP-140 - best bit of kit I think I've ever bought! Still going perfectly after 6 years) and don't experience any issues, sound quality is great, equal to CD player.