I have got a nokia bluetoot car kit fitted to my golf (mk5) and was wondering whether you can get a bluetooth transmitter for an mp3 player so you can play mp3's through the car kit instead of the "illegal" fm transmitters?

thanks

dave

Just found this - that any good as a starting point?

Sounds like just the ticket

Just checked it and i think i would have to do some rewiring of the car in order to get it to work. Its to go into my company golf and i cant make any changes to it unfortunately. It was recently fitted with a nokia bluetooth kit.

it came with the CD player and no tape to take an adapter, so i am restricted as to what i can do to get the music through the car speakers.

How much are you thinking of spending?

Essentially what you would need would be a few electrical components that are capable of talking to a bluetooth radio transmitter, pairing with the car kit, faking a call and then streaming the ipod data as the mic input

eg a PIC or FPGA, some wire and board to wire it on and a bluetooth radio device so you can send data over bluetooth.

An easier option could of course be this:

- get a cheap bluetooth headset, a short run of suitable cable and a mini-jack to connect to the ipod.

- find a suitable cigarete lighter to bluetooth headset charger and something to power your ipod.

- dismantle the bluetooth headset, and solder one end of the wires to the microphone inputs on the circuit board.

- put the jack on the other end and suitably box it.

This is very KLUDGY and is done enitrely at your own risk.

It requires that you can solder and have a reasonable understanding of electronics to get the right connections etc.

I have no idea how well or even if this would work as I have never tired it and am just throwing an idea in your direction

I assume your hands free kit uses the TEL-IN handsfree input on the RCD-300 head unit. If you can control the handsfree volume via the radio volume control then this is the case.

The sound would be Mono and the quality would be **** too. There's no easy way to keep the mic input on the handsfree kit active either unless you are making or receiving a call. Forget it.

Just buy an aux input adapter that plugs into your Radio's autochanger input and do it that way. Even a hard wired fm modulator would be better than trying to use the handsfree kit.