I want to see if anyone else has had the same problem I am having. I added a USB and 1/8 audio extension to the y-cable and moved the iPod to the secret compartment. When the iPod is selected and the car is shut off when I go back to the car and start it again the iPod is not found and has to re-sync to the car before it is recognized in the radio (base) menu. This happens only if the iPod is on "shuffle all songs" but not if I am listening to a specific playlist or album. I don't get it?? Why?? this is very annoying it will sometimes take 5 or more minutes to re-sync to the car. I had originally bought a 30 pin extender and that would not recognize the iPod at all. I love this car but the audio/bluetooth is garbage.

 

Is the iPod battery dead?

P.S. How'd you move everything to the secret compartment? Any DIY on it? I'd love to do the same.

 

No the iPod battery is fully charged. Here is the link I used to do this -

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...t-storage.html

 

I find the iPod to be a bit flaky even without extensions. When I used extensions, it didn't make any difference to that. Which iPod do you have? Some models will go into a deep sleep after 14 hours without power, it can cause some flakyness.

 

I doubt that the extensions have anything to do with it. See if the behavior is any different when connected without extensions.

 

+1 on the flakiness of the cable even without extension.
Mine tends to not work right in the morning but when I come back to the car at night it works fine. WTH ? I am reluctant to spend the almost 100 dollars on another cable. I have the factory cable and the amazon cable too and they both are flaky. 2012 MCS

 

OK I tried to do a little test this weekend. And yes I agree the cable is flaky at best. If you turn the car off and wait a minute or two and re-start the car the iPod is still selected and recognized. This seems to last for around fifteen minutes and if you re-start after the fifteen minutes the iPod is not available in the radio menu until it is read/synced by the car. This takes around five minutes or more (large iPod). So then I disconnected the iPod and y-cable from the extension cables and hooked it up again in the normal configuration short y-cable only and iPod in the storage net. And it does the same thing? I could swear that it did not do this before I added the extensions when I only used the short y-cable. WTF, little things like this drive me crazy about this car!

 

Btwyx it is an old 80g iPod Classic 6th Gen.