car problem, need serious answers please?

Question

i just got a car for free. it's a camry 89 but it only has a cassette player & radio. so would someone tell me how I can fix that so that I listen to my own music?

Answer 1

Your local department stores or Radio Shack offer a cassette conversion kit...it is a cassette tape with a wire attatched and a cigar lighter plug.pop the cassette in,plug in the lighter plug,and plug your CD player into the wire from the cassette...and waa laa.....your own music.........
it's about ten $.

Answer 2

listen to your own music on what? an iPod? on CD?

if it's an iPod you can get an iTrip - FM transmitter - basically tune the radio and the transmitter to the same frequency and listen to your iPod like it's a mini radio station - you can also get a cassette adaptor that does the same basic thing but you have more cords. If it's CD's you want to listen to you can either get a protable CD player with a cassette adaptor or have a CD changer installed - any of these solutions shouldn't be very expensive - the CD changer is probably the most expensive - teh cassette adaptor or iTrip will be $20-$40

Answer 3

Your question is vague. "...how I can fix that so that I can listen to my own music?" what are you wanting to fix exactly? is the radio and cassette player broken or do you want a cd player? Or, do you want to keep it factory but interface other things (i.e. satellite radio, ipod/mp3 players, portable cd player, etc.) into it? what specifically is "your own music?" is it something you play at home and want to hear it in your car or is it music that you like that the radio stations in your area dont play? or is it a cd that you want to hear?

As you can see, there are too many unknowns and consequently, too many answers. Give us some more info about what precisely you want to do. In turn, we can give you better results.

Answer 4

There is an adapter you can buy that is a cassette with a cord that plugs into a portable CD player. You can play CDs like that, or you can get a new CD player installed at your local electronics store.

Answer 5

I found the best thing since sliced bread...http://www.crutchfield.com/S-9oDEWuNVIo6/cgi-bin/prodview.asp?i=142FMMOD01


It's not wireless.

It feeds your audio signal from a headphone jack from your MP3 player ( or RCA cables) by FM modulation, directly into the antenna input on your radio bypassing the antenna when on, allowing the radio to work as normal when off. It comes with an On/Off switch that can used or it can be replaced with a relay powered by the remote wire from the radio (if so equiped).

This IS the answer. Totally versatile.

Answer 6

Make some tapes and reset/preset your own stations..

Besides that, they make those things that you can hook up to your car to either adapt a portable cd player that makes it so you can play through your tape player, also there are mp3 players that play through a lower frequency on your car that you can take songs from the computer that you can play your own mix in the car... pretty cool!!!

I wouldn't suggest trying to install your own stereo, that is a surefire way to mess things up. They have way too many places that do free installs these days!

COOL! Wish I could get a free car!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

Your better off buying a aftermarket radio. You will be happier. Better sound quality, and stops the hassels of having all those cords everywhere. You can get a good quality cd player from $89.00-$200.00.

Answer 8

Get a satellite radio, an ipod with an FM transmitter, new head unit, lots of options, just limited to what you want to spend.