Premium Audio Question

[Dagabond]

Auxiliary Audio Plug-in (Cassette & MP3 capability)

Part Number:

BA289455AA

RRP Fitted*:

$65.00

http://www.ford.com.au/showroom/accessorie...le=32&model=170

Mind you all you get for 65bucks is a little plug down in the condements tray under the tissue box........

(that's how it looks anyway ).

[richdave]

Premium has a 5.8 LCD segment screen not TFT.

Are you sure about this? Where did you get your info. Many articles on the BA have stated that the LCD in the premium system is TFT.

Heres a coulpe of examples

Premium audio

Adds to Prestige system with: Colour TFT display, digital signal processing offering a choice of sound modes and CD compression that cancels out road noise.

heres the link to the article:

BA Falcon interior reveal

Premium audio

Improves over Prestige system with: Colour TFT display, digital signal processing offering a choice of sound modes and CD compression.

and the link:

BA Falcon – the Ultimate Driving Experience

Edited 21/12/02 02:01 AM by richdave

[Djelibeybi]

AFAIK, the Premium Audio and DVD Satellite Navigation have the same screen, as Premium Audio is *required* in order to install the SatNav.

[Guest anthoc]

You are quite correct. The Fairmont which has prestige sound has the large LCD display, not the colour display. The Fairmont Ghia has the colour TFT and of course the colour screen is required for any car that gets Sat Nav. It's easy to see what you have - if the screen's got greys and blues and an animated CD/FM/Am icon, then it's a colour display.

What I was thinking was that if you don't have SatNav fitted, I don't think you get the connection at the bottom of the ICC to provide your Sat Nav video inputs. Let me know the SIDO of your car - I might be able to check it out. It should be somewhere on the docs you got from the dealer and should be a six digit number.

The instrument panel wire harness is also Sat Nav unique so it may not carry all the required circuits. There is a blue connector in the RH kick panel for Sat Nav circuits only. It's mounted horizontally in the plastic box.

Lastly, the auxilliary connection uses a simple wire assembly to tap into the auxilliary connector behind the junction/fuse box. I think that you press AM twice to enable the aux input. It mutes the other source and takes it's line level input from the connector. A word of caution - don't run your MP3 player or CD player output from the headphone socket a full volume. The input is designed for a line level input so work on about half-volume to start with. Any stereo input whether it be MP3 player, CD player, or cassette player will work. Cool, huh!