In car stereo intergration...help!!

i have an iphone and would like to intergrate it with car stereo, no one seems to have a definite answer as to best approach, maybe it would be easier to purchase a new stereo if so does anyone recommend a suitable one? it is for a RAV4...
thanks

There's no single answer because every car manufacturer plays by different rules. When my wife bought her new car last year she immediately went down the street to our favorite little auto audio shop, bought a new sound system, and drove away with her iPod booming away. Unfortunately, while I researched my car purchase for quality, safety, etc, it never occurred to me to check out iPod compatibility. Turns out GM was using an electric harness for sound that made installing third party stereos a problem - especially if you wanted your built in XM radio and audible alarm signals to work. I had to wait for a third party solution for that problem before I could get good sound with my iPod.
In regard to a poster's mention of FM transmitters...don't bother unless you live in the boonies. Not only have the FM transmitters always been the dodgiest of solutions, but the FCC recently cracked down on the manufacturers because many (the ones with the best sound) were cranking out higher wattage than permitted. The newly designed transmitters are generally worse than the older designs as a result.

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