Anyway, recently purchased my sis' old car.

In my old car i had a sony stereo that I could put my usb stick in for my music.

Realised in the fiesta there is this monstrosity of a stereo system that I cannot do anything with and as it only has the voice crap module (8m5t18g488) and i want to play music from my usb again I started looking over the pages and seeing what i needed.

'Bluetooth module with USB' is what was touted everywhere. Ok, makes sense, so i would need a lead and the little usb fascia. So off to ebay. 

USB lead came, then the fascia, then the 8M5T19C112 arrived.

Skipped out to the car, assembled the fascia, got the usb lead ready, pulled out the underdash plate, removed the cable block, put it in the new one and locked it down...then saw the module had the same proprietary plug as the one I had. Checked the labels and they had different numbers, the new one said USB. Both have the AK suffix.

And apparently I need anything after AK.

I've tried looking for a cable with the appropriate end but there is none anywhere. Even if I did find one or just the end and made one up, would I still be able to stream from a USB stick?

Pondering on just sending the unit back for a refund and looking again.

Anyone able to help or have a cable?

Dave

Although the outer surround is proprietary the actual business end in both units looks like a standard USB-A Female socket. I guess the extra shroud is to ensure that the USB-A plug doesn't vibrate out. I would try a standard male to female  USB-A cable, or just plug your thumb drive in to see if it will fit!

The Ford cable seems to have a standard USB-A female on one end with your thumb drive plugged in but the other end is out of focus so I can't see what it looks like and why it won't fit in either unit.

 

On 6/20/2022 at 5:18 PM, agraham said:

Although the outer surround is proprietary the actual business end in both units looks like a standard USB-A Female socket. I guess the extra shroud is to ensure that the USB-A plug doesn't vibrate out. I would try a standard male to female  USB-A cable, or just plug your thumb drive in to see if it will fit!

The Ford cable seems to have a standard USB-A female on one end with your thumb drive plugged in but the other end is out of focus so I can't see what it looks like and why it won't fit in either unit.

 

A standard USB-A won't fit into the port on the module, the metal USB end is as wide as the plastic surrounding the connector inside.

It was one of the things I tried and had an oh-oh moment when I found it.

The ford cable has a mini-usb end. This mates up with the next batch of 8M5T19C112 numbers that have a AX code that seems to be around AS/AT.

The AK I have has the same port as the AL/AN/AM ones I have found, but there are no cables for sale anywhere. Not even for other fords that have this weird grey end and the USB on the other.

Looking at them now I'm wondering it removing some of the grey plastic at the sides will let the usb go on, but as it is i can't tell if the connector board is the same width and will the connections line up.

Might take my module out of the car tomorrow, open it up and see how it fits. before attempting to tinker with the module I've bought.

in the pic is a an  8M5T19C112 AS module with the mini-usb the same as is on the ford cable.