Hey guys,

Just a quick post because I have been searching for weeks to figure out a good solution for a radio upgrade.

I have the stock radio in my 06 Expy KR and that has no way to connect an AUX to. So I was fumbling with a frequency broadcaster to try to play music from my phone over the car speakers. This works for about 45% of the time and I was not happy with it. So I started looking into replacing the whole radio with a newer one that has bluetooth and aux as standard features.

But that also kind of irritated me because I have been so pleased that the truck was still 100% original and the stock radio works - don't fix it if it ain't broken... right?

So finally I found a very easy solution that cost 6 dollars total. If your car is equipped with the ceiling DVD player you simply hook up an RCA cable to the white and red connectors on the DVD player and have an audio jack on the other end of the cable that will plug into your "any music device with headphone connector".

Put your radio on DVD mode and voila... sound from your music device is rolling from the speakers.

Maybe this was very redundant but it took me long enough to figure out so I hope this will help someone else...

 

I tried this solution - however, in the winter when it's below about -10C, it no longer works! I don't get any sound at all until the whole system warms up, which takes so long I don't even bother.

I went the FM transmitter route (Jabra Handsfree) which is OK but not great.

If you have the same navigation system/radio/DVD combo I have in my 2006 Limited, it's not a good system. Did you notice:
- maps cannot be updated for any price?
- clock will freeze due to losing GPS signal - requires full shutdown to fix?
- speed-sensitive volume sometimes blasts full on near 0 km/h?

For such an expensive option I was disappointed to say the least.

 

Hi Meeker,

LOL - I have wondered about the sudden volume increase from time to time. But it is so random and far apart that I did not even register it as a real issue. I simply turned that feature off in the radio and keep the volume in check with the on steering wheel buttons... That seems to help.

I have not had any clock freezing but honestly I NEVER use the navigation that came with the car. It is a system that is more than 10 years old by now and so in my book that is what I call out dated... by a lot... I just use either Google Maps or TomTom GO. Both work awesome now that the radio works well with the RCA cable.