i'm thinking perhaps i'd need this ( http://www.cardomain.com/item/PERACUALP ) cable in order to have the headunit recognize the 'cd changer' (or in this case ipod)....but it seems like this cable is merely more of an m-bus 'extension' and not an 'adapter'....so maybe it would do nothing at all.

Dare i risk another $15 dollars in the name of this (possibly) hopeless project? hehe.

I'm getting tempted to find a cheap old alpine m-bus cd receiver and swapping out the factory deck....although the WHOLE reason i attempted this in the first place is because i'd much rather rock the stock deck (hate thieves)

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