| Reviews : Dice i-Toyota-R Toyota/Lexus/Scion IPod Adapter w/ Aux Audio Input |
Dice i-Toyota-R Toyota/Lexus/Scion IPod Adapter w/ Aux Audio Input Product By Dice Electronics Available From 11 Sellers |
Technical Details
- Control Your iPod from the headunit, steering wheel, and IPod.
- CD quality sound.
- Displays text on 2003 and newer vehicles with a 'text' button.
- Works on Lexus models 2005 and newer.
- Extra auxillary audio input for a second audio device.
Product Description
The DICE i-Mazda-R2-5v iPod Integration Kit for Mazda SAT Systems is a factory iPod intergration kit that gives CD quality sound. It can be controlled from the ipod, radio and steering wheel. Supports text on text-capable systems and includes an extra auxiliary input. Connect your iPod to your Mazda's factory entertainment system and hear what your iPod should sound like in your car. Always keeps your iPod charged and ready to go. Radios with a SAT button will also display text from your iPod allowing you to view song title and artist name right on your radio's display. (Factory SAT will need to be disconnected.) Features: • Charges the iPod • Direct audio from your iPod to your car radio. • Controls the iPod from the radio controls. • Will work with in-dash CD changers that are part of the main radio. • Gives you an extra audio input as well as the iPod interface. • Compatible with factory navigation systems.Similar Products
Customer Reviews
By pasquale (San Diego, CA)
Whatever you do, don't buy an integration kit from DICE ELECTRONICS. Mine stopped working after about five weeks and they wouldn't refund me because they only warranty their product for 30 days.
Yup - an electronic component manufacturer that won't stand behind their product for longer than a month. I should have looked into it before spending the 200 plus.
My money is gone plus the additional cash that I had to spend to have it removed - not to mention the money I'll have to spend on an integration kit that actually works (which I'm sure will be backed by the company - because it actually works)
By Stein (San Diego, CA United States)
My husband purchased this for his car so that he could listen to his new ipod nano. After taking his car apart to install this adapter, he discovered that it played his ipod nano, but didn't charge it. He called the manufacturer to find out why and was told that the model he received was an older model (same name as the new model, but the serial number gave it away) that wasn't compatible with the newest ipods, and that they were no longer selling that version. Even worse, they wouldn't warranty the product because he bought it from Apex, which according to them is an "unauthorized reseller" of their products.
After many hours on the phone with Dice, Amazon and Apex, he finally got them to agree to refund the return shipping costs in addition to the refund for the product. All in all it was a frustrating and time consuming experience, and particularly discouraging because we buy from Amazon to avoid trouble like this! Save yourself the trouble and buy from someone else.
By Moulin Blaise (France)
Hello,
I install a Dice i-Toyota-r in my Prius, that was very easy to install (you can see installation guide on Dice site or in discussions forum).
The Ipod can be controlled by steering wheel and you can see artist and title on the Prius screen and that charge your Ipod battery.
For the sound quality if you have good quality MP3 is good if you have poor quality mp3 is poor.
My Prius is a 2005 model.
(excuse me for my english i live in France)
By gary21cp (Austin, TX USA)
I have the same problems as reviewer jt in my Toyota 4Runner. The DICE unit frequently locks up and won't let me use the radio/steering wheel controls to control the iPod, nor will it shut off the iPod if the vehicle is turned off. (That means the iPod continues to play until the battery goes dead.) The only way to fix this is to get under the hood, pull the radio fuse, and put it back in to reset the radio.
There are other problems too -- sometimes when you turn off the car, and then restart it, the DICE unit restarts your iPod on some other source of audio than what you were playing. And the radio will pretty much never remember that you have an iPod integration unit when you first start the car. You have to kick the key over past the start point to reset the radio, then select the "disc" button to get the radio to "see" the DICE unit.
When the unit works, it's great -- having a hidden iPod in the car is wonderful, and the sound is way better than the FM modulators or the cassette adapters I used to have to use. But then the thing goes haywire and I have to use these tricks to get it to work properly again. Frustrating. . . .
And try teaching these tricks to your wife when she wants to use the vehicle and listen to the iPod! Good luck!
UPDATE: I called the company and told them about my problems. They sent me a new unit. I replaced the old one with the new one, and now everything is working fine, the way it should be.
By R. Shockey (Southern California)
I bought this unit for my '07 Camry with Navigation after DICE Electronics assured me that it was compatible. While I guess you could say that it works with my stereo/nav unit, it's so unreliable that it is almost useless. I go on long drives and listen to a lot of audiobooks on my iPod. If I make a quick stop, upon restarting my car, I often find that the book (or podcast, or song, or whatever) has been reset back to the beginning. If I didn't happen to notice the exact hours and minutes of the audiobook, I have to search through it to find my place. Very annoying and a real time waster. It also randomly pauses my iPod without me touching it, then restarts it again a few seconds later. It is capable of displaying the title and track name from the iPod, but then inexplicably blanks this information out. If I switch to map view and then back, the info reappears. If I disconnect and then reconnect the iPod (and who wouldn't, as that's kind of the whole point of having one), the DICE unit makes the iPod "forget" my place in the playlist. Upon reconnecting, it will always play the same track, out of the 10,000 or so on the iPod. I mean, I like "...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead," but I'm damn sick of hearing the opening of that one song. Finally, I should mention that when I sent this complaint via their online system, it took 6 weeks before anyone even posted a "say, did anyone ever help you with this?" When I answered in the negative, I never heard another word. Apparently, they don't care if they have unhappy customers. Do yourself a favor, buy a VAISTech unit instead. It does the same thing, and while the reviews have been mixed, they have been far better than the DICE's.
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