My sister is buying a 2004 Acura TSX and I wanted to buy her an adapter or whatever it's called so that she can listen to her Ipod through the car stereo. How do these work, and what brands are good for this (I want as clear a sound as possible).

Don't get one that plays over a radio station, those are junk. Your Acura dealer might have an adapter that allows you to simply plug your ipod in and push play. If there is a cassette player you can get am adapter pretty cheap at just about any retail store. check out best buy too they also will have a ton of stuff that could help.

Check the car, and see if the stock stereo (or whatever is in it now) comes with a line in jack.If so - then all you need is an 1/8" to 1/8" stereo cable to plug it in, and maybe something to hold the ipod (and I think they make a power plug that lets you charge the ipod using the lighter outlet.If the stereo doesn't come ready for accesories, then your best bet is to get a decent fm transmitter kit, it will let you tune your radio to a dead air station, and transmit at that frequency so you will pick up the ipod - it's not gauranteed to be as clear though.The only other option is to replace the stock stereo with one that is ready for mp3 player.

Trash the stock deck and get an Alpine deck. Most new models come Ipod ready and all you need is the $30 high speed Ipod cord, hooks into the high speed port on the bottom of the Ipod instead of the cheapy cords that go in the headphone jack. Plus you can control your ipod from the deck. If you know anything about car stereo, you'll know that Alpine is arguably the best.

A company called peripheral makes O.E.M interfaces that will charge the ipod and usually you will be able to control the ipod using the radio controls,and some vehicle will display the ipod info on the radio...they run about 100$ @ best buy...and about 50$ installation..its a nice piece ive installed several

get a radio that has a plug for iPods. you can get them at best buy

i know this sounds so fake but its not.goto walmart or target.and ask for an auxiliary cord.and tell them that you want it so that you can plug your ipod into your cd deck.they are only $$4 there in the car audio department.i have one and it works very good!

okay dnt be cheap now its a good nice clean car so go with the best sound which will be an ipod interface which i have plenty in stock for sale, what the interface does is it connets straight to the back of your factory radio and u can run the wire to your glove box and control your ipod thru your radio with all the txt on it and if u have controls on your steering wheel they will also work with the interface !!!![Only registered users with more than 5 posts can see links. ]

the ipod interface plugs in to the back of the radio using the cd changer port , the radio will see the ipod like if it was a 6 disc cd changer but it is a ipod with 5 play list and 1 additional aux input for the radio to display text from the ipod there needs to be a text option or radio must be SAT ready follow this link there is a few interfaces http://oemautosound.com/c-184-acura-to-ipod.aspx

You didn't mention which iPod your sister has. I have the 30 gb with video and plug it into the cord that attaches to my Alpine head unit. I can do anything from the head unit that I can do on the iPod controls, plus it charges it while I listen to it. No special settings, no expensive adapters, no extra charger, and the iPod is safe and sound in the console out of sight. If she has the iPod shuffle, the only option is to go through an aux port, or an fm transmitter.