On the fence about installing a mobridge in a 2008 C2S. Anyone have real life experiences with it.

 

Email me if you need info on Dension - feature rich, retains cd changer if desired, ease of use, etc. Mobridge is a good product as well.

eric@bumperplugs.com

 

i have mobridge and like it pretty well. dension or etc. - all those products are quite the same, just get one depending for what best price you can find one.

sometimes mobridge units surface up on ebay for peanuts - that is where i got mine, for $550 or so. do not remember now. it does both ipod and bluetooth so you do not have to install 2 units as with some other solutions. mount in behind glovebox for good bluetooth reception, if you mount it in a trunk it may be not very stable if you keep your phone in your pocket. but before you mount it there - make sure it works and pairs with your PCM well!

 

I have Mobridge and it works well with one caveat. The iPod interface on the via the PCM is dreadful. I don't like it at all. You can however "unlock" the interface and control the music straight from the ipod, which is outstanding - provided you run the ipod line to the armrest for ease of access.

 

Got the Dension from Eric here on 6speed - the place to go. Cheaper than the Mobridge - who needs the bluetooth(buy a headset). The PCM interface with the Dension is crap as well, but it's functional once you figure it out and gives you all of the song titles in advance on a list on shuffle if you want. BumperPlugs is the place to go.

 

YES had one put in my 2008 C2S. works great:

the phone pad on the PCM works!
Ipod works an dis displayed on the PCM screen
My Sirius Radio works through the AUX (Displayed on the Sirius control head)

 

I have one, it works fine, but as noted above, the Ipod control is clunky

 

I totally disagree. bluetooth is the most convenient feature when your music playback stops and you hear you do receive a call. with just phone or headset i personally simply do not hear my phone ringing plus i hate headsets and never keep one mine on all the time, only when I need to talk.

ipod control`s design are the same on dension and mobridge - limitation is not in the unit but in the pcm. you will need either to create proper set of playlists or organize your music some other way. in my ipod i just select 'artist' and then it plays all albums under that artist. not extremely convinient but works for me well enough as most albums i dropped there are 'best hits' or similar.