OK - Discalimer - everybodys milege may vary - here is my story
I bought an alpine headunit with ipod adapter for my a4 cab and had it professionally fitted - they tried 3 different types of wiring adapter with carying degress of success, 1st one front speakers only, 2nd one front and rears but that didn't work because the rears are amped in a cab, 3rd try kinds working - but, no auto dim (there is no plain wire in the radio loom for "lights on", and no power off with ignition (again- no easy connector) - so they took them from the fusebox, then it was back again to get an aerial booster installed - they forgot that audi's were like vw's and the aerial requires an amplifier.
Once it was all installed and the sound adjusted - it was truly terrible - I jsut could not get it to sound right, buddy of mine was a pro sound engineer - he tried - no good, then we tried the setup cd thing through the alpine site - sets up the ead unit for you car based on various measurements.
I really missed the DIS display of radio station etc. - alpine said they would never produce a module to enable it.
End result - I paid the supplier/installer to take it out - they refunded the money for the system and said they wouldn't ever try to do one again.
Hope they were just wrong and there is a magic kit out there - one other installer did tell me of a audi bus adapter that makes things like hooking to lights and ignition work better but it was 100's of pounds
Be interested if you get any further because I still want a better head unit in my car.
Malarcy
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