Honda Factory Radio M-BUS changer interface?

[cleverstar]

My car is 1997 Honda Accord LX, the factory radio has an M-BUS (8-PIN round) CD-changer plug-in.

I wonder if this M-BUS plug in on my head unit is versatile-link ready?

Or can I simple feed an Aux input to the L-CH, R-CH, S-GND pin, without connecting a CD changer?

You know, I want to just make use of that 3 input pins to feed my external mp3 player's sound into my car stereo system.

Is that possible?

 

[Russ]

I researched this a while back. The problem is the CD inputs aren't enabled unless "CD" is selected on the head unit and the head unit won't allow that unless it detects a CD changer is installed.

PIE may have an adapter cable which solves this problem, but what I ended up doing is getting an Alpine CHA-S634 CD/MP3 changer. It plugs into the MBUS using standard adapter cables. IMO this is the cleanest, easiest, cheapest way to get MP3s into your car

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Russ
'91 black/black

[This message has been edited by Russ (edited 09 December 2002).]