Great. Thanks. I just wanted to be sure since a number of cables and accessoires are incompatible with the new Classic ipod. By the way, I forgot to ask last time, since it plugs into the dock connector, will it also charge the ipod?

They are not made in Black and once it's in the glove box (that's where you have yours i presume) no one is going to see it anyway...:thumbup:

I like the round logo. Probably the same reason I shelled out extra dough for a BMW and not a Geo Metro.

Because I can't control song selection through the stereo or steering wheel I need to have the ipod relatively close to me, which means having the cable running from the glovebox to the center armrest or so. A black cable on a black interior is nearly invisible. A white cable is not. It's a huge PITA to keep hiding the cable when running 50 errands on the weekend.

I have a cable to connect an ipod to the Aux audio input. It didn't come from BMW because the BMW cable cost to much and besides they didn't make them in the first place. It came from Apple.

I didn't know that Apple made a cable that connects the dock connector to a 3.5 stereo jack. What is the part number?

That's who invented them. But here's a third party product. http://store.sik.com/merchant.mv?Scr...egory_Code=AAi

For an apple product check out http://www.apple.com/ or visit your apple store.

Regards

I did go to the Apple store and they told me they never made such a cable, which is why a company called Sendstation created a product to fix this problem. The only problem with their product is that you need it AND a cable and I'd really like just 1 component.

I looked at the Sik product in person, and while it's very nice, it is a huge mess in the car and adds to the complexity of unplugging it from the cigarette lighter socket all the time. Talk about your huge PITA's!

Tom - not sure if you saw my post earlier, does your cable charge the ipod?

Try this then you can get the color cable you want from radio shack.

http://www.sendstation.com/us/produc...neout-usb.html

Thanks for the tip, but like I said before, it's not quite the elegant solution I am looking for. If I keep my ipod in a case I can easily connect it to a dock connector cable, but the pocketdock will not mate correctly unless it's completely out of its case. By the way, I actually tried it and for some reason I can't explain, it didn't work! No signal whatsoever?! Weird.

Seriously though, I am amazed that of the 10 million ipod accessories that now exist including a toilet paper dispenser with an integrated ipod dock, one can't buy a simple cable! I have searched for a while for this item and so far have come across exactly 2 companies that sell such a cable, both are in white and only come in 1 length each. Isn't that simply amazing?!

The reason I asked if someone knew if BMW made such a cable is that the cable BMW includes with the 6FL option (combined ipod aux input / USB port) on newer cars is a black cable, and frankly a very well made one! See photo attached (credit goes to someone who posted it on the E70 thread). Now this cable would be "almost" ideal were it not for the fact that it is so short and wayyy too short to run from the glovebox aux port to the center console.