Dr. C

Good morning.

Just wondering what folks are doing for an aux cord for the stock Becker 220. My CD changer no longer functions and I guess I'm looking into taking it offline and adding iPod capability.

If you've done this, did you go for the 3.5mm cord, or the Apple Lightning cord?

I found this one, but that price???

https://www.discountcarstereo.com/il-bkr.html



Thank you!

Shawn Stanford

,For only a little more you can buy a new head unit and the installation kit. Crutchfield will even send you a pre-made wire loom that will plug the new head unit into the existing Becker harness.

Swapping the radio in a Boxster could not be any easier. I don't remember even needing any tools other than the pulls to get the Becker radio out.

Dr. C

Thank you two for your replies.

Although it's now back on the table, I had kind of dismissed the idea of replacing the radio itself. I know my reasoning may not be conventional, but one, I really like to keep things stock, and two, I appreciated the simplicity of a CD changer. Press a button on the radio to select a disk, turn the (Sticky) dial to select a song, you're good to go. Simple. Adding an iPod was the next necessary step, but now it seems tossing the radio itself may need to happen.

I hadn't really considered just how easy it was to replace the head unit, and I guess that's now back on the table.


Again, thanks.

Dr. C

Well, I embarrassed that it's taken me four months to do this, but I wound up getting an aux cord that just had a quarter inch stereo plug on the end. Bingo. Problem solved for now. I got the cord off of eBay, and it came with the two radio removal tools as well. $29.99.

Crutchfield was a great suggestion. They have quite a few radios, and they have the wiring harnesses/mounting brackets to make the change pretty simple.