Blitzsafe Aux Adapter

[LATEOTT]

Originally Posted by bliss53

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I have not purchased yet. Lateott, Give me your take on the following info from Blitzsate.

"Plugs into the 14-pin connector in the rear of the factory radio."

"Works with or without the 6 disc in-dash CD changer installed and does NOT disable the 6-disc changer."

"Works with or without the factory navigation installed and does NOT disable the factory navigation."

"Works with or without factory XM installed and does NOT disable the factory XM."

Sorry for the delay, I was out of the country for a while.

From the description it is all things to all people and should work fine for you. When I first read that description several months ago I thought it was the perfect adapter for the Ridgeline to add an AUX input. I like the small form factor when compared to some of the other choices. It is plug and play and completely reversible.

However, from the user experiences I read about earlier in the year, the thing worked inconsistently and some owners needed to send it back for a chip/firmware update.

What makes me hesitant is the total absence of success stories from owners of this adapter for the Ridgeline in particular, and from other Honda/Acura owners in general.

Has Blitzsafe finally found the ideal firmware so that it works perfectly? Are all the owners quiet now because there are no problems? Who knows... It's the silence that bugs me.

I think Logjam is a reputable dealer so they may be able to exchange it in the event of a problem (you may want to verify who pays for shipping in that event). Blitzsafe over the years has proven themselves to be a funny company. Sometimes good products, but sometimes huge delays in getting products out or fixing bugs. It is almost like they work on things in serial and can only deal with one thing at a time.

I just don't know, but I wouldn't buy one until I heard a couple of success stories or was GUARANTEED excellent support in the event of problems. Life is too short to deal with buggy electronics.

[zuhl]

Ordered one of these a few days ago from Discount Car Stereo.com. Should be here by Friday, I will let yall know how it goes.

[bliss53]

What stereo, navigation, xm configuration do you have? I am a coward and I was hoping some one would give this piece a try. What did you pay?

[bigdogrod]

not that it helps, but i got the blitzsafe adapter from logjam for our mdx (w/ nav and xm) i also got a 3 input switching box and an ipod adapter from logjam

the snhond plugged right into the back of the radio where a white factory connecter is, i'm not sure what the plug is for, i htink it was for an external cd changer, then the factory connector plugs right into the y harness on the blitzsafe unit.. that gives you 1 set of rca inputs

next i connected the 3 input box to my sirius tuner and to the ipod, so now we can switch between the 2

plus xm still works (for the next 2 months anyway)

i don't nof if the ridge is anything like the x, but it should be fairly similar

bdr

[JoshH385]

Check out my thread at
http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/f...863#post168863

hopefully that answers it!