500 Help with iphone!!

[JadeDunn]

Hi everyone ....

Ive just got a fiat 500 lounge 2 days ago and I'm in love with it! My perfect little car.

The only thing is that I can't get the car to fine my phone device when it's plugged into the usb, using my iPhone lead to do so.
Also, I bought an aux cable from Halfords and the car will not recognise this either. I was wondering if there is something I have to do to get the car to recognise the aux and usb?

My phone charges when it's plugged in but that's it.
I'm wanting to play music, etc...

Thanks guys

 

[alexGS]

Hello, welcome :wave:

The answer depends on what year your 500 is. I assume that being a Lounge version, it has Blue&Me.

2010 and newer should work with a connected iPhone. May need a Blue&Me software update to work with new-ish iPhones and iPods.

Before 2010, they don't work with iPhone or iPod. You can purchase an adapter from FIAT (goes between the USB socket and the iPhone), which works, but I'd recommend not bothering, as it is slow to navigate thousands of tracks using the next/prev buttons and instrument display. And, the adapter is reasonably expensive.

No Blue&Me version, new or old, supports audio streaming via Bluetooth.

A much more workable solution is therefore to get a handful of USB drives and put a different type of music (a few hundred tracks) on each of them - then just pick one to play. Can browse by artist/song name using the instrument panel. Cheap, easy, and convenient because you don't have to plug your iPhone in. The iPhone can then be paired (automatically reconnects) with Blue&Me for making/receiving calls over Bluetooth, which works fine.

Hopefully, your music is all stored as MP3s - I set iTunes to use MP3 rather than AAC format when importing/storing songs. Might be a problem to play music purchased from iTunes, unless you have 'burnt a CD' in Data/MP3 format. I guess once you've done that, you might as well bung that straight in the car anyway, as the CD player plays MP3 discs too

-Alex