Well, the question is, how did the guy who started this thread get it to work? Obviously, he took the photos and found a workable solution. He said he ordered the factory cable, so a couple of things are possible: The factory cable is indeed different from the Kenwood part mentioned so often here and has the right head-unit connection; or the specs on his MMCS are different. He is from Australia. I'm sending him a direct email to see if we can get a bit more info from him.

 

It's not even the same MMCS model as the ones in the UK market, so I strongly doubt his solution would work for you.

 

I can confirm this does *not* work on a '07 unit.

...crap...

 

It's my unverified conclusion that the iPod cable mentioned in this thread will not work with U.S. and possibly all North American models, at least not the 2007/2008 MMCS.

I asked at the dealer today about the part number MZ360221EX, listed as the part used by the person who started this thread. He is from Australia.

The dealer doesn't even list that part. They do have MZ360224EX, but it's not like the ones discussed here. It plugs into the iPod headphone jack and does not plug directly into the MMCS. You have to do some wiring swaps to patch it into the MMCS (instructions included). It costs $70, and of course that doesn't get you the in-dash text display and iPod recharging.

Here's hoping this elusive cable becomes available to the rest of us soon.

 

kma_johan, champion post, just install the Ipod cable, less 15mins with your instructions. Found out that it doesn't charge 4th gen Ipods and above however there's an adapter which plugs into the cable (Scosche passPort) which does the trick.

 

Like a lot of other posts in various threads, it is always impotant to make sure your cars unit is the same as mentioned in the thread.

Before I bought my Outie, I found a lot of "how to" theads on doing stuff, but later found out that the units mentioned (or not explicitly mentioned) was not the same as what we have in Australia.
A good example is the built-in HDD where you can load music. We don't have that here. So for me to take one of those threads and try to do will obviously fail.
I didn't whine about it or wrote back onto those threads that the instructions were useless and didn't work.

For me to write this thread, I took photos while I did it and it work for me as well as other people with the same model (2007 Australian by the way if it was not clear).

For the guys who found this useful, thanks for the positive replies, but for the others who didn't do their homework properly before spending money and then finding out their unit is different, sorry. Next time make sure.

 

Johan,

Can you tell us where on the back of your MMCs you plugged in the cable? I've been trying to piece together what's going to be on the back of my MMCS in the UK.

I found this image - is your MMCS the one on the right?

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f9..._instr_014.jpg

Can you share with us the wiring diagram that came with the cable please - if you've still got it?