What Is The Best Way...

[securespark]

...to play music stored on a smartphone though a car stereo that does not have aux input?

 

[Brigadier]

Change the stereo?
Bluetooth-enabled car stereos are pretty cheap nowadays.

 

[motorbiking]

does it have a usb socket?

The other option is https://www.halfords.com/technology...essories/kitsound-bluetooth-to-fm-transmitter

there are better alternatives around that are cheaper

 

[^woody^]

Find a station that does requests.

 

[rsgaz]

does not have aux input?

If it has a connector on the back for a CD changer, there are kits you can get to add an Aux-In. It's tricks the stereo into thinking it has a changer hooked up.

 

[securespark]

Change the stereo?

It's a Vauxhall 08 plate, not a standard DIN fitting.

does it have a usb socket?

Sadly not. It's a CD30.

If it has a connector on the back for a CD changer, there are kits you can get to add an Aux-In. It's tricks the stereo into thinking it has a changer hooked up.

Have to look into that.

Find a station that does requests.

If we could only go back to the 70's! A push button MW/LW radio if you were lucky!

 

[^woody^]

If we could only go back to the 70's! A push button MW/LW radio if you were lucky!

Dad was posh, we had a teak effect 8-track!

You might have to frequent some of the Vauxhall forums if it's a non-DIN unit. You can get transmitters and other gizmos but they are a bodge.

 

[SammyInnit]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B017ST7...t=&hvlocphy=9045500&hvtargid=pla-420532704699

You can get an Aux fly cable for a CD 30 for about £6, a headache and a Saturday afternoon too.

 

[securespark]

I did briefly own an L reg Hillman Avenger Super in the 80's and that had the very same!!
I had a choice of Elvis, Frank Ifield and Louis Armstrong.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

...to play music stored on a smartphone though a car stereo that does not have aux input?

Get a better car.

 

[securespark]

Christ, what a snobby reply.
There are plebs in the world who can't afford a car that has an aux input and has to retrofit a solution.

 

[securespark]

You can get an Aux fly cable for a CD 30 for about £6, a headache and a Saturday afternoon too.

I am told by a couple of car forums that you can't adapt the CD30 for AUX capability.

 

[SammyInnit]

I am told by a couple of car forums that you can't adapt the CD30 for AUX capability.

I've seen different outcomes. Some have managed it, some have had to do a lot of work to make it happen but it only worked in MONO. Others suggest retro fitting a CD30MP3 but of course, Vauxhall being Vx it has to be 'divorced' from the donor car and 'married' to the new car via Tech2; unless you can find someone with a T2 terminal you'll have to go to Vx and last time I enquired it was like £60 an hour to have someone plug into your car.

 

[securespark]

Yeah, I've heard about that...

 

[securespark]

Found out the CD30 MP3 only has capability to play MP3 CDs. It does not have an AUX socket.

But the original could be replaced with a DIN unit and a small cubby.