AUX 3.5mm Cable Replacment Connect MP3 Phone Audio Compatible with Mazda 2006+ Car Player (2 Meter / 80 Inch Long)

I'll list the good, the bad, and some installation tips.The price of the product is unbeatable, especially since as we've seen with the iphone 5, your iphone integration unit can quickley become obsolete. Just a simple line-in. Works for everything. The sound quality is pretty good. I think a cd sounds better but that's to be expected. But there is no audio feedback from the engine, even when using a basic audio cable extension.The only negative I had was that the cable is a tad short - but that really depends on where you want it coming out. I ran mine through the center armrest box. The cable stretched the whole way, but only had about 4 inches of slack once it entered the bottom of the armrest. If you run yours through your glove compartment or just out the side of the center console (near your legs) you'll be fine. I didn't notice a sound quality difference when I added an extension to mine coming through the armrest.As for installation tips, these will only apply to the 2008 Mazda 6, though I'm sure other Mazda6s of that generation will be similar. Here's a list of tips.1) Use the GTA car kits video on youtube as a guide.2) When taking off the 4 front-facing screws that hold in the radio, make sure you get the correct bottom 2 screws. Because I'm tall, I didn't see the actual 2 lower screws and instead unscrewed 2 screws that were holding in the large plastic piece that makes up the armrest. After yanking on the radio for a while and questioning my strength and manhood, I found the correct screws.3) That being said, if you partially remove that large plastic piece (same piece that makes up the armrest) it actually makes threading the cable much easier. You'll need to remove 5 additional screws (besides the 2 I mistakenly removed). 1 one each side near the driver's and passenger's legs. 1 in the middle near the hand brake, and 2 inside the armrest. Also, disconnect the armrest power outlet. You don't need to take it all the way out, just loose enough at the front so you can thead the audio cable down from the back of the radio.4) At the bottom of the armrest box you'll need to make the hole bigger to help the cable fit through. The holes are actually a little plastic drain. Just punch out a little bit of the plastic with a lockblade and thread the cable through.5) To make sure my short cable won't ever fall back down inside, I zip-tied the 4 inches of slack that I had to the little plastic drain at the bottom of the armrest box. It's solid.It sounds complicated but it isn't, trust me. If you are even a little mechanically inclined (like, you set up a Big Lot's bookshelf once) you'll be totally fine. It sounds like there's some improvisation and ghetto-rigging involved, but it's very straightforward. It doesn't take long and it's well worth the effort and money savings. The hardest part is threading the cable down from the radio. Just get a flashlight, stand on your head if you have to, and look for a clear path.

I had read other reviews saying the wires could/would come loose in the white connector, and I noticed the metal contacts where a bit loose (easily shifted 2 or 3mm), so I did the little superglue maneuver on the white connector before even testing to see if the connection was good.Tearing the dash down on my 2006 Mazda5 manual transmission with 6-disc CD player was MUCH easier than I anticipated. I watched one of the youtube videos from the series listed in other reviews, and found it helpful, although it was for an automatic transmission Mazda5, which is a bit different than a MT. I am not familiar with taking apart a car dash and was nervous, so I ended up googling and found some PDFs by car radio makers detailing a dissassembly of a manual transmission Mazda5. The PDFs ended up quite helpful, as they showed me where all the clips were and where to pry without breaking the fascia.Back to the product....It clipped on very easily, and worked perfectly from the start--just had to hit the "Media" button on the stereo and my iPhone was hooked up, playing at good volume-range with no engine static.The length of the cord is good--longer than I expected. (Sorry, I can't measure it because it's already installed....)I contemplated taking a star off for the BIG headphone adapter plug. You would have to drill a big hole in the dash to feed it through. It would have been nice to either have a smaller plug, or to ship with the wires to the white adapter NOT attached, and just a diagram of which hole to plug each wire clip into, so you could feed the wire through a tiny hole in the dash and then attach the white adapter. But I ended up just running it out at the bottom of the dash, by the carpet. Doesn't look "professional," perhaps, but it's out of the way and not an eye-sore.A great product, particularly for the price!!

Bought this a few weeks ago. Wired into my stereo and fished through the car to have it come out of the center console. Worked great. First issue was a slight buzz or static sound when the charger's connected at the same time as the aux. Second was that the aux cord that connects to the stereo is actually a little flimsy. After a few weeks the music would play out of one speaker or another or not at all or perfectly depending on how the aux is connected to the phone. Can only blame myself for maybe being too careless with the cord. Looked online over the buzzing and you can buy something called a ground loop to rid yourself of the buzzing while charging. You plug the ground loop like you would your phone and have another aux cord run from the loop to the phone. Think of it as an extension between two aux cords. Aux is included with ground loop btw so good deal. Ordered that as well as another aux to stereo cord since mine had broken and figured that I can leave the ground loop and aux to stereo cord in my console and run another aux which I'll consider a disposable one from the console to my phone. That was if I mess up the aux again I can just get another aux and connect it back to the ground loop and avoid having to take apart my stereo again. It's a good product. You just have to do your best to make it last for you. 10/10 would recommend.