Hoping someone can help me identify if this is an Aux in of some sort. I recently purchased my 06 TL, it does not have a aux-in or xm option. There is a switch with aux in located under the arm rest. I checked out the audio/electronics FAQ for a while hoping I'd come across it but had no luck. Anyone have any idea how to use this?

Thanks

 

Looks like someone retrofitted one in. Why don't you try plugging an ipod in, flip the switch back and forth and test it out?

 

Looks like a retrofit to me too...

 

I've done that without any results. I've tried to select fm/am/cd-dvd/tape, with the switch on and off, still nothing. I was hoping someone may recognize this with my available options. Can't think of how else to try it.

Thanks,
Randy

 

Yeah that's definitely not OEM. Maybe try taking the console apart and see where the wires lead? If not to figure out how it works, then just to get that nastiness out of your car!

 

if i can figure it out and it works well ill keep. its hidden.

 

That cable looks like power, rather than an aux port. An aux port would require 5 or 6 connections from a single cable with several conductors inside, like cat5. Not a beefy zipcord like that. That cable is capable of carrying high current. That is not like an Aux port which is only for low level signaling. Plus, I cant see what that cable is connected to. What is that thing mounted in there?

USB+Aux port on top.
Acura Aux port on bottom.
Power on left

 

Could be a stereo L/R to 3.5mm jack.

Try with your radio on XM, if there was an aux input added it would be tied to the XM input.

I'd take the console apart to figure out what it is though.

 

i thought about it in the most simple way and the only options possible: i decided to allow the iPod to play plugged in then hit seek on the fm radio channels. finally came up on 88.9fm and unbelievably clear. Thanks everyone for the help.

Other unit plugged in is the Sirius radio adapter.

 

No.

The OP figured out it is an FM modulator with an aux input, which is good (and somewhat obvious if you kinda kinda know what you are looking at. Even a little.)

But I had to respond to this. The cable looks just like a cheap set of RCA cables. Which is L/R audio. An aux (3.5mm/TRS (tip-ring-shield)) port requires 3 connections. Left, Right, and common ground/shield. The tip and ring each carry a positive L or R signal and the shield carries a common ground and sometimes a shield as well. Sometimes you see a TRRS connector that has a second ring (this the 2nd "R") that carries a video signal too. Most cheap audio cables, which is EXACTLY what that looks like, have a tiny center conductor, a plastic-ish insulator, and then a outer shield type wire that encases the insulator, then an outer jacket just like a coax cable.

Also, what the hell is a "zipcord"?

Also, how on earth can you tell that cord can carry high current without seeing a cross section of it?

I don't know what you can't see in the pic. It is pretty obviously a female 3.5mm jack in a surface mount panel thing, a toggle switch, the audio cable which runs through the panel and is sealed up with some kind of silicone/caulking, and the white disc is the light in the console.

It's one thing to offer opinion on something like this, but to state what you did as fact is how misinformation is spread.

 

I am not trying to be a jerk but why dont you ask the person who you bought it from or the dealer?

 

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