Denali tape deck modded for iPod docking

While there's no shortage of ready-made options for connecting your iPod to your car stereo, if you want a truly integrated look you''ve really got to get your hands dirty and rip into your vehicle's factory parts. If you do, you could end up with a ghastly mess, or you could have something that looks like like JPPadula's new-and-improved GMC Denali tape deck here. While it'll likely never play a Huey Lewis & the News cassette again, it will accept an iPod quite nicely, with a full-functioning ejection mechanism and its innards wired up to the vehicle's Kenwood deck to allow for control over song selection. Of course it does have the slight downside of needing to be completely retrofitted for each new iPod, but who says iPod mods always have to be practical?

[Ken C @ Feb 9th 2007 11:11AM]

That is by far the coolest iPod car modification I have ever seen!

[akintz @ Feb 9th 2007 11:12AM]

That's a pretty slick job! I love the Apple button to. If only I had the skills...

[Gordy @ Feb 9th 2007 11:18AM]

While I don't regard 'putting a rubber skin over the ugly parts, then inserting the iPod by stretching the skin from the bottom' the best of mods, it looks slick, at least.

It also answers the question 'where the hell do I put this damned thing.'

[Alex @ Feb 9th 2007 12:26PM]

I am sorry, but this the stupidest thing ever. What if (get ready for this) I don't an iPod and I want to buy Denali? What then? Why not just make a USB connector or an audio input and be done with it?

[Henry Tavarez @ Feb 9th 2007 12:34PM]

hey dipshit, denali didnt create this mod, the owner of the vehicle did...custom for HIS denali. Instead of trying to seem cool cause you thought you caught something nobody else did and use this opportunity to bash the idea, why not try and READ the post and subsequent article before making yourself look like an idiot. (sigh)

[dext3r @ Feb 9th 2007 1:33PM]

anyone got any idea how he made the Apple logo not look like total ass? Looks nice, I'd like to know the technique.

[Adam Pflug @ Feb 9th 2007 1:41PM]

More custom iPod installations:
www.ipodincar.net

[Xtopher Robin @ Feb 9th 2007 2:04PM]

You know, you could make this fit the largest Ipod out there, and have adapter plates for the smaller ones, allowing any Ipod with a dock connector to fit. Theoretically, it's not that far-fetched; I've actually been tossing this idea around in my head for a long time, but don't have the technological know-how of a car to do so. Awesome job!

[Chris Wickersham @ Feb 9th 2007 3:24PM]

This is exactly the head unit I have been begging for for years. Congrats to this guy for getting it done!

Chris

[MCA @ Feb 9th 2007 4:27PM]

now this guy is stuck with using a 4g iPod for as long as he has this dock.

But cool mod though.

[LukeA @ Feb 9th 2007 4:46PM]

Well, if he's just using the iPod in his car, what's it matter the generation?

[Diddle @ Feb 9th 2007 5:15PM]

Fantastic looking custom dock. Kudos!

[TIMMAH! @ Feb 9th 2007 5:24PM]

What the F is taking the car stereo manufacturers so long to come out with something like this. I would think that someone who has manufacturing expertise in both car stereos and mobile personal electronics (*cough* Sony) would have been all over this action by now...

[scooter @ Feb 9th 2007 5:40PM]

Very cool! Contact the patent office right now!

I guess I'll stick to the MonsterCable transmitter
http://www.gadgetgrid.com/2007/02/08/ipod-fm-transmitter-with-autoscan/

scooter

[robk @ Feb 9th 2007 6:37PM]

too bad my cars so fast that the ipod would shoot into the back of the car

[Clark H. @ Feb 10th 2007 2:56PM]

The Apple Vending Machine shouldn't be too far off now...

[Greg @ Feb 24th 2007 10:02PM]

In reply to Clark H. "The Apple Vending Machine shouldn't be too far off now..." I was in Atlanta, Georgia last year at the World Congress Center, and there was a vending machine that had iPod nano's, Video iPods, PSP's, and even a couple what looked to be G4 Powerbooks. Being where I'm from this surprised me I had never seen anything like that before.

[Paul Wanat @ Mar 26th 2008 7:21PM]

What company makes & markets this and how do I become a authorized distributor. This is a a exceptional excellent modifcation and I would liek to offer to the public.