If you wanna keep your e30 retro...

[Mossman]

I bought one, immediately borrowed an SD card cuz I left my digicam and card with a buddy. Formatted card, threw 1 song on, popped it in the stock tape deck on my 6'er and....the radio kept playing. I've never tried a regular tape, so I don't know if that would work, but radio didn't seem to know/care there was a tape in the deck and never changed to that mode. That is...until I took the car out later on that day and it was in tape mode. It thought it was at the end of the tape or something though, cuz it'd play for a second or so, pause, do some stuff, play again, and the balance was changing a bit left/right with every pause.

So I press eject. Put it back in. Radio mode. And it has been on radio mode ever since, for a week or so. I have to completely disassemble the thing and see what's going on, what switch gets pressed when the tape is in and manually press it or something.

Basically i don't know if this deck works problem free with tapes normally, but my results have been disappointing, all i've heard was 10 1 second little bursts of music with pauses between, and it's been holding my buddy's SD card hostage for a week.

When I get it resolved or at least out of the deck so I can try it in another deck I will let everybody know

[BlackSpeed66]

Subscribed - this looks interesting....

[sticksdaman]

any first hand reviews?

[lespaul]

The review on the original website link describes it as being a bit finicky and unreliable. I don't know, it seems like it could be a pain in the ass, however I'm also subscribed and interested.

Here is the part of the review that I'm referencing:

"It does suck not having a display to see what song you're selecting, and the more songs you have on it the longer it will take you to find that song. I also had some problems trying to skip songs using my tape deck's FFW and REW buttons, sometimes it'd go backwards randomly when trying to go forwards and vice versa... "

[sticksdaman]

any news on this?

[Mossman]

if I hadn't seen this at 4am i might have waited til one of you guys got yours. Unfortunately that was impossible so I bought one. My 6'er got its alpine stolen and I've got the stock deck in, and when I finish with turbo e30 I might just run a stock tape deck to make interior less appetizing to thieves who might snag my gauges too. I'll let y'all know how it works when it gets here

[Jall]

I've still got my OE radio, been considering taking out the DIN tray I have in there now and putting the radio back in.
Kinda defeats the OE look though, seeing as I have a touchscreen mounted underneath it. :p

[AndrewBird]

There are a bunch of them an eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Tape-Player-SD-T...QQcmdZViewItem

[sticksdaman]

I've used one of those corded tape things, it's a RCA piece (of crap.) When used, I hear this constant tick tick tick noise. It's miles behind those FM transmitter things.

I've actually experienced the OPPOSITE with my wired tape cassette adapter. The ones that go through the radio frequency are more often than not fuzzy and take more time to set up and arent as reliable (battery powered) as the cassette style.


oh and this thread is sooo subscribed. Im anxiously awaiting a review!!!

[e30esque]

I'm buying this, review to follow shortly.

[TDE30]

I've used one of those corded tape things, it's a RCA piece (of crap.) When used, I hear this constant tick tick tick noise. It's miles behind those FM transmitter things.

[submwar]

Or you could use this with any iPod

[eric (^__^)]

Do want

[rThor432]

That's kind of neat. I'm one of those "period correct" guys, so all I have is cassettes in the car. I keep one of those cd player/ipod adapters in the glove box though, just in case a passenger happens to have something that modern.

[e30 Luv]

someone buy one and write a review. that is rad.

that is rad. but it seems suspiciously cheap. plus for some reason the fact that the site is called chinavasion.com scares me.