Car Audio Install

Ok so I have a new vehicle and the Rockford Fosgate sub and amp from my old car. I want to hook it up to the stock headunit in a 2003 Olds Alero . I have the sub amp and sub box. How much and how long would it take to install?
what else would I need?
thanks

line out converter would run you 15 dollars that will connect to the factory head unit
installation is 49.99 for that part, the amp installation is 99.99. you will need an amp kit also that will range anywhere from 79.99-149.99. the installer will let you know which guage and also what price that will be before the installation. the installation time is between 2.5-4 hours depending on the installer and how busy the floor is that day since installers sell and also install. call your local best buy to get your offical quote and book your appointment. otherwise you can book your appointment at the link below.
https://autotech-scheduling.geeksquad.com/
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The following website will list different types of car audio devices made for iPods. I hope it lists something that may help you.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=567 F5736&nclm=iPodCarAudio

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If you’re looking to enhance the listening experience in your vehicle, you may want to consider upgrading your car audio components. There are many different options to do this, from a new radio to an entire sound system to provide you with unmatched acoustics and heart pounding bass. With all the choices you have, I know that upgrading your car audio equipment can seem like a daunting task, especially if you don’t know where to start. To help get you started, I’ve provided my top 3 questions to consider when looking into upgrading your vehicle's sound system.
Do You Need a Complete New System or Just a Few Upgrades?
It can be easy to get carried away when it comes to purchasing car audio equipment, especially with all of the choices and configurations out there. The costs can add up quickly if you’re looking to upgrade the entire sound system, but there are also many cost effective ways to improve your car audio performance.
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What Will Fit In Your Car?
You will want to ensure that any car audio components you purchase fit in the same location as the stock components.
Car audio speakers come in a variety of sizes to accommodate different manufacturer specifications. Traditional speaker sizes are usually 6-1/2", 6" x 9", and 5-1/4", with many sizes in-between. These sizes refer to the diameter of the speaker, but you’ll also want to consider the speaker depth to make sure it will fit within the door panel or rear deck lid behind the seats.
If you're looking to add a subwoofer, it is highly recommended that a quality subwoofer enclosure be used. Traditionally, subwoofer enclosures can be placed in trunks or under seats if using in a pick-up truck. You’ll want to ensure you have enough room to place the enclosure according to how you want it to look. You can also purchase subwoofers that come already loaded in an enclosure.
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Deciding how you want your car audio to sound is crucial when it comes to choosing car audio components, especially if you’re purchasing any kind of speakers.
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Now that you’ve added more power to your existing system, you want a way to contain that power. Sound deadening materials such as the Dynamat Xtreme Trunk Kit and Dynamat Xtreme Door Dampening Sheets help eliminate vibrations and rattles, while containing your audio inside of the vehicle. In addition to keeping your audio inside of the vehicle, it will help to keep road noise out of the vehicle for distortion free audio.
Upgrading your cars audio system can seem overwhelming, but with the right selections and proper research, it can make a world of difference to the listening experience you enjoy in your vehicle. Feel free to check out our vast selection of car audio equipment here. We’ve also got plenty of Blue Shirts and Geek Squad Autotech installers to help you pick out and install the perfect car audio system.
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IPhone no longer works with car audio

I'm running a 16 GB 3G-S and it worked wonderfully for my internet music such as Pandora or listening to iHeart radio.
The unit would sync up easily to both my new car audio systems and everything detected and played beautifully! However, once I upgraded to 4.2.1 the iPhone is no longer detected in "iPod Mode" or either receiver. I either get error codes from the receiver or errors from the iPhone that this is not supported (when it was in 4.1).
I really loved those features for my frequent long drives. I really hope there is a fix for this problem. I did check with both receiver manufacturers and they maintain their units should work.
Any thoughts or help is greatly appreciated!

That is wild! My receiver had problems under 4.1, and I upgraded to 4.2 last night hoping to rectify things. It worked for me, flies through the menus and plays back beautifully again.
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IPhone 5S with ios8 fail to connect my Bluetooth car audio system

Dear apple users and developers,
I have read many threads about this issue mostly for iPhone 5 (ok i have the 5S) perhaps this makes a difference. With the ios7 i had no issue and always connected to my MHV-8300BT Pioneer device in my car. After update, when i get connected, i says "Calling My number" and when i push the button on my device to answer it drops the line, it keeps the connection but i do not hear, speak. Then i have to change the source voice system and i set the speaker or the iPhone.
On my fathers Bluetooth, a Motorola, it works, at the beginning i made a reset only for the Network settings,
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Hi MJM 1,
If you are having issues pairing your iPhone 5s to your car audio system via Bluetooth, you may find the following articles helpful (the first article also includes instructions on removing paired devices):
iOS: Third-party Bluetooth accessories
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1664
iOS: Troubleshooting car stereo connections
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3581
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How do I synch my playlist in Itunes to my 2011 Honda car audio system using a flash drive?

Hello abarbes,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
The article linked below provides troubleshooting tips that’ll resolve issues like the one you’ve described, where your iPhone 6 isn’t able to connect to your car stereo.
Get help using your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with your car stereo - Apple Support
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Hello:
I´ve got a BB 9360 curve. There is no problem when i connect to my PC, It questions if i want connect mass storage, charge, etc...
But when i connect it to my USB car audio system, it connects automatically to charge without any message or option to connect to mass storage, and i can not access to my music stored in the memory card.
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Iphone 6 iOS 8.1 no longer playing properly with car audio system

Hi there,
I have an iphone 6 running ios 8.1 and it is no longer allowing me to play/pause songs through the car's audio system. I have a USB port in the car that allows me to plug my iphone in and control the Music through the car audio system.
I have a 2011 Holden Cruze.
Prior to the iOS upgrade, the function worked fine.
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Is anyone else having this issue and are apple aware of it?
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Hi Darren,
I'm experiencing the exact same issue with my Volkswagen Golf 2015. Since the update I'm unable to use the play/pause button. When I press the button while my phone is connected through the MDI cable it does nothing. But if I use Bluetooth I can control it without issue. That said, in my car I don't want to use Bluetooth while I'm playing music because I want to charge my iPhone at the same time so I need to use the cable. I think this is a really issue and Apple should advise.
Update:
I did a full restore without using a backup of my old phone. Oh surprise... It seems to work now. But the worst now, is that I have this album of U2 showing in my playlist. I don't know if it's related, but that album was not showing when I used my back-up the first time. Seriously, I think Apple succeed at messing up enough with iOS 8.1 and this U2 album to break the playlist and the playback functionality with cars and radios.
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Restore to iOS 8.1 with back-up - FAILED
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IPod shuffle will not connect to car audio

my 2015 Lexus audio system recognizes my iPod Nano's (6th &7th generation) without any problems via BT or USB; does the 4th gen iPod shuffle have the capability to play through my car's audio system with it's USB cable?

Probably not, because the iPod shuffle does not have the "standard" iPod dock connector. It uses the headphones jack as the connection point for data. Also, the shuffle is designed to be a more limited device, in terms of its interaction capabilities.
A better choice for connecting to a car audio system is an inexpensive USB flash drive. You may already have one. For example, this one barely sticks out of the USB port
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/SanDisk/SDCZ33016G/
and has many times the storage capacity of a shuffle. You can load it with your favorite songs and just leave it connected in the car, instead of constantly connecting and disconnecting an iPod (which causes wear on the iPod).

Ipod car audio text display

With hope someone has an answer! I have just brought a new car Mazda 6 along with updating my ipod to the 80gb model. My wish was to take my entire cd collection (quite extensive) to my car and never to use CD's or the delemma of which cd to take. Mazda offered as an accessory an ipod connector. The price tag was considerable however more than worth it in my mind. But how disappointing. I have no text display either on my ipod nor the cars sound system (Bose premimum). This would all be fine if I had stuck to my nano as it's limit of 1000 songs I had to make a decision on. With the 80gb and my entire collection impossible - no idea of the song title, artist etc and no way of chosing what I wish to hear. Not really interested in making playlists as there goes the element of suprise, back to limiting my selection and what the heck I could just as easy (if not more) grab some cds and take to the car. Surely there is a solution to the problem. I presume the reason why I don't get a display on my ipod (other than the Mazda logo) when I connect it is for driving safety reasons but still with hope someone out there can provide me with a solution.
Anticipated hope
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Does it mean that once its fully charged the battery stops operating that the ipod powers up using the d.c. power source?
No. There is still a slight battery usage when plugged in.
Do you think it will affect the charging cycle or even the battery life of the ipod by keeping it plugged into the car audio unit using the cd ib-100?
Yes, but probably not drastically.
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Hi - hoping someone here can help.
I have an iphone5 running iOS 6.1.4 and a 2013 BMW 3-series. I
can get both to pair/connect via Bluetooth, can pull-up my Contacts list from my phone on the BMW iDrive screen, and can even initiate a call. But what I can't appear to do is get the audio to jump from the phone to the car - even though the symbol on my iphone is showing the 'speaker' against the car.
When I try to make an outbound call from the car, there is no dial-tone or ring-tone. The only difference when I receive an incoming call, is that I hear it ringing, but there is no audio when I pick-up....and the caller cannot hear me speak either.
I have tried the exact same procedure with my iphone4 in the same care, and it works perfectly over the car audio/speaker - both for inbound and outbound calls.
If anyone has any clue as to what might br wrong, and how this can be fixed, I'd very-much appreciate it.
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Hi NKA1968,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The following article will provide some troubleshooting steps for this issue:
iOS: Troubleshooting car stereo connections
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3581
Some car stereos require a firmware update for AVRCP 1.4 Bluetooth compatibility
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4483
I hope this information helps ....
Have a great day!
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Message "Accessory connected" when connecting to my car audio

Hi,
I bought a new iPod Touch recently but haven't tried connecting it to my car audio through the car's USB interface. When I tried connecting it to my car audio, the iPod interface vanished and a screen with "Accessory connected" appeared and it is simply impossible to get out of this interface. Also, my car's displays "Load" with an "iPod" indicator but doesn't seem to play the music. I read in the discussion forum that pressing the "Home" key would bring up the iPod screen which is correct, but the moment I tap on the "Music" option, the iPod again brings up the "Accessory connected' screen. I'm connecting my iPod to my Honda City car audio and the iPod Touch version is 4.1.
Has anyone had similar issues with interfacing iPod Touch with their car audio system?
TIA
Best Regards
Ramanujam

Hi Ramanujam,
It's possible that your car audio system offers the functionality of a "2-way mode" (ie: allowing you to operate via either the iPod itself or the head unit of the car audio system). Check your car audio manual, and switch the controlling terminal from "headunit mode" to "iPod mode" for iPod playback. Once in "iPod mode", you should find that your iPod's menu should operate as normal.
I'm not familiar with the audio system in your Honda City, however, by example, pressing & holding the "back" key on a JVC headunit will switch between playback modes.
If this solution is not successful, try connecting your ipod via the USB interface while holding the iPod in a "landscape mode" (ie: sideways). You may find that you have limited functionality & can scroll through album covers in order to make song selections. NB: Be sure to hold your iPod in a landscape mode before connecting, rather than connecting the iPod in a "portrait mode" and then rotating the device 90 degrees.
Wishing you luck,
Malcolm

IPod Shuffle compatible with car audio iPod ready receivers

I was wondering if i purchase an iPod shuffle, would it play with iPod ready car audio receivers like the classic iPods do.

WeJa wrote:
I was wondering if i purchase an iPod shuffle, would it play with iPod ready car audio receivers like the classic iPods do.
NOT unless specifically mentioned in the documentation/specs of the car audio...
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My bluetooth seems to have stopped working in my car. Both phone and car audio says it is connected but nothing comes through car speaker. I no longer have screen on iphone that says to choose audio source. How do I get that screen back?

My bluetooth seems to have stopped working in my car. Both phone and car audio says it is connected but nothing comes through car speaker. I no longer have screen on iphone that says to choose audio source. How do I get that screen back?

Thanks, this was the clue I needed to figure it out.
From Settings you can pull up Control Center.
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