Bluetooth connection to incar stereo

I was excited to hear about the stereo bluetooth update in 3.0 as I thought all my christmas' had come at once... I have just recently purchased a new car that has integrated bluetooth.
My iPhone pairs with the car no problem and using the phone to make and accept calls works seemlessly...however...I cannot play my ipod through my car stereo...
Can someone please advise:
a) is this is even possible?
b) how can i select the audio output when using the ipod
c) what the problem might be?
thanks in advance...

i guess you are refering to an ipod touch...or do you mean running itunes on your iphone?
did you pay to upgrade your touch to phone os3?? only 2nd gen touch can supporet the bluetooth. how old is your touch? (Because the touch update doesn't happen automatically like with an iphone.) If you are running an ipod in your car with os3, you need to open settings for bluetooth and pair the ipod with your car radio. Bluetooth also needs to be enabled in settings.
I myself wont leave bluetooth ON all the time as I assume it effects the duration of the battery charge/ playing life of the ipod.
there are also different bluetooth standards for appliances. I have little knowlege of your specific car radio and this radio may not be able to arbitrate between multiple bluetooth devices when the iphone is present. however, i doubt this is your problem with the radio because you mention that the car is new.
let us know how this goes for you
you should also be able to interface the touch physically with a new radio through a usb port and car music will be interupted when the bluetooth phone rings. but of course this is specific to certain car radios.
i am interested in purchasing the dual branded car radio which does bluetooth and ipod by usb because it is the most affordable one which also has HD radio tuning. So I have researched some of the issues you seem to care about.

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We would like to inform you of the availability of an optional Bluetooth® firmware update (HW05-SW01.27.20) that enables Bluetooth AVRCP control and metadata display from a compatible Pioneer CD or DVD Receiver when used with an iPhone® 5 or iOS 6 device. If you do not own an iPhone 5 or iOS 6 device, there is no need to install this update.
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