Also, who's your dealer?

 

Regret I don't have a part number or parts list. I asked the dealer to install at delivery. Cost $350.00.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005...ipod_auto.html
I believe its just an iPod cable and adapter rig for the rear of the stereo. The cable is 3 feet long and I chose to put in the glovebox. It's long enough to pull out when needed and installed it disables the CD Changer.
There is Audi specific software as the Audi rings display on the iPod and the standard display font changes to bold. The cable is powered it charges the iPod. The Nav screen display, source menu, calls it "CD".
The individual CD labels, 1-6, when selected, will play corresponding playlists from the iPod (the first 6 playlists). No iPod data is displayed on the car's Nav screen. It's not perfect but it works for me. Full functionality of NAV and Bluetooth/Phone are retained.

 

Who's your dealer? I'd love to call and speak to someone there about what they did to install your iPod. Thanks.

 

Please forgive the late reply. The iPod set up in the car is less than perfect. I've been trying to diagnose the problem with a local aftermarket expert who specializes in highend Euro cars but no luck. He tells me there are two national companies that primarily work in this area, they are ICE and Axxess, and to date they have no answer because Audi has switched to a MOST system: Media Oriented Systems Transport. I am certainly no expert on car entertainment/nav systems but our diagnosis is the Audi system is not considering that the iPod is running a slightly amplified signal back to the audio system. I know this sounds elementary but we believe it's that simple. Whatever is happening is distorting playback at high volume. One other idea I'm going to try is to burn a CD with different compression/sampling rates then drop that into the iPod as a test playlist, should be interesting. The distortion only appears during iPod playback, everything else sounds fine.
I would never consider any dealer to assist in this type of problem. Because the car is so new the trouble shooting method is to switch out components until the problem disappears. fyrwlkr, sorry for the long winded story, my dealer is Roger Beasley, Austin, TX.
If anybody could help it would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

This is all very strange when you think about how easy it would have been for Audi to set up an iPod(or any mp3 player for that matter) interface. BMW has a spot in the center armrest where you put your player and plug it into the system. Hardly revolutionary. How could Audi have missed it? SD cards are fine, but people want to be able to move their tunes around with them.