Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Modifications Audio Visteon Drop In Mp3 for Fords

Surfing last night I found this site:

http://www.evisteon.com/b2c/mach_mp3c.htm

Visteon offers an in dash OEM style CD CD-R CD-RW & MP3 player/changer control. This unit can control the Phatnoise digital media changer basically allowing you to take 4000 songs for a ride with you everyday. This is for those looking to upgrade to Mp3 playback but dont want to fool around with all sorts of wiring issues or just becuase you want to keep a stock appearence.

This unit is NOT a direct drop in for the Contour but with a little work and pre 98 style console this should be a decent fit and should look Mondeo OEM

pricing was around 350 to 450 for this unit

The website has some good info about it

Bet it sounds crap though if it's anything like the Visteon-made OE units we get in Europe (1.5 DIN ones). Much better to just buy an Alpine/Kenwood/JVC MP3 compatible unit IMO. Judging by the display it doesn't support ID3 tags either.

Besides that deck looks awful, did they enlist the head designer from Fisher-Price in case the minimum driving age is lowered to kindergarden?

ha ha. Yeah you think they would make it flat in color. Id tags would also make it so much eaier to find a song. Ohwell everybody has to jump on the wagon now.