Piston Slap: New Tricks for an Old Car Phone? (Part II)
Tony writes:
I have a 1992 Oldsmobile Toronado Trofeo with a built-in cell phone (analog) that doesn’t work. Could you help me convert it? That would be amazing.Sajeev answers:
Well I can help, as I mentioned before, but making a car phone upgrade happen? Oh, it’s gonna be a huge pain requiring creativity, electronic knowledge and wiring diagrams on your end. But the end result on this video? Worth it!
No car must live on with its factory stereo intact more than a Toronado! The amount of gee-whiz tech GM loaded into the Toronado (and the Riviera/Reatta) means it’s your duty to keep everything period correct and/or 100 percent functional. And that Motorola 2700 certainly looks the part.
To help make it happen, here’s the above YouTuber’s write up on LincolnsOnline.
We don’t need no Google Maps! (photo courtesy: saabsho @photobucket.com)
Oh yes! Someone needs to make this display work with a car phone once more!
Who will make it happen? And will they take us along for the journey?
Send your queries to sajeev@thetruthaboutcars.com. Spare no details and ask for a speedy resolution if you’re in a hurry…but be realistic, and use your make/model specific forums instead of TTAC for more timely advice.
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Rather than getting the phone to work, an option is updating it to Bluetooth. I've seen quite a few inovative ways that people have made Bluetooth adapters work with stereo systems that originally had cell phone interfaces. In my case, I discoverd that Jaguar put out a bulletin to adapt later model BlueTooth modules to work on models as far back as 2003. A description of what you need for that is here: http://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/xk8-xkr-x100-17/bluetooth-capability-123196/#post1035419
I thought "Oldsmobile Toronado Trofeo FE3" was one of the more pretentiously wordy model names ever pinned to the side of a motor vehicle.