I am about to drive on a cross country trip and need my tape deck to hook my ipod up. I hate the FM receivers for iPod because of the interference and being constantly unable to find a signal. I like my tape deck adapter. Its cheap and has worked since I bought the car in 05. Suddenly whenever I use it, it makes a loud squeeling/buzzing sound from the speakers a few minutes after using it. I thought my speakers were blowing at first. But, my cd's work fine and the radio works fine with no problems at all. I bought a new tape deck adapter to see if that was the issue and the same thing happened so it wasn't that. I tried an actual cassette tape and the same thing happened so its definitely the deck itself. I bought a cassette cleaner from the internet and cleaned the heads with it and it still doesn't work. I can't seem to find anyone that has had the same problem. Does anyone have a suggestion for a way that I can fix this myself??? I have an 05 Prius. no nav. I leave on Monday!!!!
Only thing I could suggest is if you can find an old head cleaning tape and run it through a few times. If you had more time I'd suggest a new aftermarket stereo head unit tho. - D
I'm not that familiar with the '05 details. Do you have a 12V power receptacle (lighter) and a 1/8 inch (headphone) mini plug jack in the center console? If so, here's your answer: Belkin. This item plus a short male-to-male 1/8" mini plug cable from Radio Shack, etc, inputs the audio signal from an iPod headphone jack as AUX. Well, at least it does so on my '08 with OEM nav & JBL audio. Fairly clean sound; much better that the casette deck dealie, or FM transmittr. Not as good as direct digital. Should do fine though. Hope this helps.
