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Hi All, I have a Nov01 Boxster 2.7 it has a cr22 stereo and is pre-wired for the multichanger went to my OPC to find out cost they told me £700 !!! after i picked myself off the floor i told them i would think about it. I then decided to go to car audio specialist he told me he had a Becker 6 disc that would do the job he would fit it right there at a cost of £200 !great i thought, but after fitting it it did not register with the h/unit. After a few calls he came back and said on late 01 models you can only use the Porsche unit and i have no other options, is this true ??
if so i would be better losing the Porsche unit as i could get a decent unit for £200 but i would rather keep it original.
any ideas would be great
Thanks
 
It should work with Becker, and some Sony units.

As you have the pre-wiring, I too thought it should "just work".

Does anyone know if anything else is needed? Hooking up to the PST2 to enable it for instance?
 
Personally, i looked into this avenue and decided against it. - Too expensive for old technology.

Having had many CD Changers die and not giving you your disks back, it seemed far more sensible to do the following:-

1 x iPod MINI <£150 - eBay, Comet, PCWorld
1 x Dension Icelink (CDR22 Interface cradle & charger) <£120 - www.ipodmycar.com

Installed in the armrest, the iPod is out of sight and very tidy.

I've been meaning to do an install write up for ages, perhaps this will drive me to do it....

Let me know.

Ant
 
Yes please Ant. [8D]

Would be useful to LOTS of people - This is the sort of thing I'm looking for for an article in Porsche Post...
 
Excellent [:)]

With photo's if poss - at the highest resolution your camera can do...

... And thank you VERY much! [:)]
 
Ant/Mark...look forward to seeing that, as I have only ordered the standard head unit on my Cayman for the said reasons...
 
Alan,

I know the Cayman (and all Boxsters from 2002MY) has a different "wiring" sytem (called "MOST") which Dension are having difficulty hooking into with their ICElink.. they have been promising "real soon now" for a while.
Hopefully this WILL appear soon, but the instal that Ant has done probably won't quite apply [&o]

Having said that, much of the concept is likely to be similar - it's just the hooking into the system bit that is likely to differ.
 
What is the model number of the Becker that was used? The Becker Silverstone 2660 is the same as a Porsche CDC-3 and they work for model years 1997-2002. Becker also has a 7860 that works for the same years but it has a memory problem. Becker also has a 6 disc unit that is for a Mercedes and that will not work.

If you have a 2660 or 7860 and it does not work then something is wrong. Not hooked up properly. Defective unit. Need to switch the radio over from aux-in to cd changer so that the radio knows there is a changer. This is what comes to mind.
 
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