Category Archives: ICE
Halfords Customer Service, car radio removal tools
Here’s a small tale of woe which I should have written about earlier, concerning Halfords in Bishop’s Stortford.
When I was fitting my Dension ICE>Link into my car, I needed some radio removal tools. I checked around and found pictures of what I needed – flat bladed tools which inserted into slots underneath the radio to release it and allow me to fit the wiring harness.
I rang Halfords in Bishop’s Stortford and spoke to a salesman there, describing my car make and model, the radio and even describing in small detail the type of tool I’d need. I pointed out that I definitely didn’t want the round tools, a bit like the wire from a coat hanger, I needed the flat blade like tools suitable for my car. He checked his stock and told me that he had five sets in and that they were suitable.
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Dension ICE>link – fitting an iPod into your car – Dension support forums
I can only really sing the praises of the ICE>Link product from Dension. My experience has been very positive and the installation into my Audi A3 was painless enough.
However, here it is less than two months later and Dension in their wisdom have closed the support forum at their site. The latest firmware version is 2.05 but I am working happily with v2.03.
But that’s not the point. The forum at Dension was generating a lot of good questions and answers – perhaps too many for the good folk at Dension to handle in such a public way, but now we find that a message placed on the forum (or rather, where the forum was) directs us to hackmycar.com. I don’t know about you, but this is hardly a professional, product centred name for the ICE>Link! In fact it feels as if fitting the product to your car is in fact some kind of grubby activity, hacking into an otherwise good car.
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In Car Entertainment for your iPod – fitting an iPod into your car
Well, it finally happened – I got fed up of listening to tape adapters with wires hanging all over the place, or using FM transmitters to broadcast my iPod to my car radio. I am now the proud owner of a Dension ice>Link!!
This nifty gadget plugs in to the CD changer port of the car radio and attaches to a small piece of electronics, which in turn allows you to plug in a dock for your iPod. The dock can be mounted where you like (I chose a Brodit proclip to prevent drilling holes in the dashboard) and the iPod simply plugs in.
Now, instead of a 6CD autochanger, I have more like a 600 CD autochanger!
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