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Re:Please make a dumb car by JoshuaDavid on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:27PM (#30152913)
If you have a cigarette lighter that you use as a USB charger, they make cigarette lighter bluetooth-to-radio adapters which also have usb slots for about $20. Set your car radio and the adapter to the same frequency, and your car now has bluetooth.
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Re:Please make a dumb car by soylentcola on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:19PM (#30153678)
Mine's on a used Fit. Lighter port has a little 2x USB port permanently plugged in. One USB to phone's charging cable, the second powers a little BT receiver (and that has a 3.5mm audio out to the front input of the basic "dumb" factory stereo).

I did have to spend 5 min setting up some little adhesive wire straps to bundle the little cables out of the way, but total cost was maybe $25-35 for the USB power adapter and Bluetooth rx. Granted, it wouldn't have been necessary if so many phones didn't ditch the dedicated audio output, but at least it wasn't an expensive workaround.

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