First off, My thanks to all the prior posters that asked and answered questions from Noobs such as myself regarding how to enable the MFSW in our cars after the fact. There are many many posts on this subject and I am not going to recreate the wheel. While I found these to be helpful I also found many of them to be a bit old and not updated recently. Specifically my goal was to enable the mfsw to answer, hangup, and voicedial numbers. My hope was that voicedial would be using the iphone4 app and not have to be done from the voicetag functions that are recordable in the parrot device. So, here is what I found out: Visit Mikey over at newministuff.com. He has everything you need to get the job done. Because of the exchange rates between the US and UK, I opted to only purchase the mfsw enabling interface from newministuff.com and got the parrot device from Amazon.com here. Install is pretty easy even though the documentation from Parrot is subpar. 1. Remove the downtube screws (2005 model R50 shown) 2. Pull down on tubes and move out of way enough to get to 4 screws on head unit. 3. Remove screws and pullout HU. 4(rear of HU). Remove the lower left white plug for cd changer prewire and lower right plug for aux input. 5. Remove wire harness plug. 6. Plug wire harness from MINI to new wire harness and then plug new harness to radio. Re-insert cd changer and aux plug into rear of HU. 7. Plug other leads from newministuff harness to the parrot ck3000 device. Just match the plugs to the interfaces. 8. Relax, there will be 2 wire kits that come from parrot that you will not need. 9. Plug mic and parrot control button into blue unit. 10. You are done. If all is correct, your phone will pair up to your car when you turn the ignition key. If so, you will hear the car stereo click twice and the radio will display "phone". To use the unit, press the phone button. On a iphone, this will enable the voicedial command. As a bonus if you plug your phone into the aux jack then the voice command will control your ipod as well. I ended up tucking all the wiring up under the bolster below the steering wheel. Good luck.
Does this rig allow for the iPhone to play music via the bluetooth? Ultimately that's where I'd like to go with mine. Wires are so last-century
Oh I was born back in the late 60's myself, but it's the Twenty-First Century, daddy-o! Gotta keep up!
Jim, we're about the same age - I'm a 49'er myself..... I'm probably going to do this for my car at some point, but I don't "i" anything....right now I'm running my 'Droid phone on bluetooth thru my Garmin, which will voice dial, voice answer and so on.....
In my old Subaru I settled for just keeping the iPhone plugged in to the stereo and cigarette lighter, and had a window mount for it. With a bluetooth earpiece, it was just fine as a navigation system, phone, and jukebox. I figure if one gadget can do all that, then one gadget is all I need. I recognize that data caps on most people's phone plans necessitates a separate gadget for navigation, but I'm grandfathered on to a limitless data plan, and plan to make the best of that while it lasts I was never happy with all the spaghetti hanging all over the place to make the old rig work. What I'd like to do is just get a ProClip mount, and stream the music in to the stereo wirelessly via bluetooth, using the MFSW as a control. I have bluetooth headphones that can do this, so why not the car? I can live with one short charging wire for longer trips but with the iPhone's battery life, power is rarely an issue.
Yep, I have let many calls go to voice mail, because I find it hard to drive, shift and answer the phone at the same time. I can only multi task a couple of things at once. Jim
Heh, mostly I don't talk while driving but it's nice to have the option. It's the navigation and music that the phone is primarily used for. These are convergence devices - the gadget is multi-tasking, not the driver. :smilewinkgrin:
The joys of a loud exhaust... Me: Hello Them: Nate, you there? Me: Huh..can't hear ya, damn loud exhaust. Them: Can ya hear me if I shout... Me: Can't hear you, cars too loud...call you later. Now back to the drive There is an iPod too that is connected with an iPod cable. It lives in the car most of the time and just works.
Funny quirk, but I don't allow eating or smoking in my car. I eat the doughnut after I stop and get out. I think I did see Chuck flying down Hellbender with a doughnut clamped in this teeth, or was that Mark? Jim
Yup, loud exhaust here too. iPod has 14 gigs on it, set to shuffle, and plays loud Best way to deal with any little rattles:lol: Mark
I use the old guy ticket as much as I can. I ant't climbing ladders when there are young bucks around. I built it, will point how to set it up, and if they ant't ready for me, I go back to the shop and build more stuff Mark
Zapski; The model CK 3000 does not stream Bluetooth so I use a 3.5 mm jack plugged into my aux jack I already had. Parrot has models that will do what you want. They just cost more.