I've got my 5d Cee'd early on April this year and even though I'm really excited about the car, the iPod connection didn't work well as I expected.
KIA's iPod connection cable wasn't originally supplied with the car and it's sold here in Greece as an extra, at the surprisingly high price of 160euro!!!
If I'm not wrong, on the website of KIA-Denmark, it's price is the equivalent of about 53euro... (395Danish kroner). Why such a big difference?
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I had to replace my audio unit recently because it had some firmware issues:
it used to hang on occasion and the only way to reset it was turning the engine of the car off and on again. That could be a bit annoying especially when you end up with a non responsive radio on a highway with the volume really loud and there is no place to pull over.
Anyway, regarding that, the dealer here in Xanthi was more than great, and he replaced that audio unit in no time.
I thought that the iPod connection would now be working with iPod's original usb cable but it still has the same behavior:
I have 5th Gen 80GB iPod and when I connect it, after a long "Reading" period, it starts playing the mp3 files stored on it randomly.
Actually this is done only if I enable the "Hard Drive" use on the iPod.
iTunes store the songs randomly on 50 folders named F00...F49 and it also renames them randomly too. It stores on the iPod a database with the real names of the songs and the playlists too but I don't have access to it using the iPod's usb cable.
The cable that KIA provides as I can understand has a microcontroller and it provides an interface to iPod database and controls, but has anyone tried it thoroughly with a recent audio unit (i.e. September this year or newer) to post a reply?
If I'm about to spend more than half the price of the iPod to get only the connection cable, I wouldn't like to know at least what I would be expecting of it before I buy it.