{"id":9150,"date":"2007-12-29T00:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/29\/usa-spec-pa11-hon2y-review\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:22","slug":"usa-spec-pa11-hon2y-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/29\/usa-spec-pa11-hon2y-review\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Spec PA11-HON2y Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/wiki\/USA_Spec_PA11-HON2y\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0374-scaled.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 alt=\"USA Spec PA11-HON2y in 2004 Accord\"><\/a>USA Spec PA11-HON2y Installed in a 2004 Accord<\/center><\/p>\n<p>So, long story short, <lj user=bunjamin> has an iPod and was needing a good way to hook it up to his car, so <lj user=hannunvaakuna> wanted to get him one for Christmas. I suggested that she get the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaspec.com\">USA Spec<\/a>, and said that I&#8217;d install it. Well, she did, and I installed it this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The install went great and while I don&#8217;t have many photos of the installation, I did write up <a href=\"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/wiki\/USA_Spec_PA11-HON2y\">a review of the PA11-HON2y<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In short, it&#8217;s a pretty nice device which does exactly what it claims to do: provide a basic iPod input to OEM head units, and provide a basic level of control (next \/ prev track, ff\/rw, pausing when turning off the vehicle or switching away from the iPod).<\/p>\n<p>I have a strong suspicion that the other USA Spec interfaces work in a very similar manner (see <a href=\"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/wiki\/USA_Spec_PA11-HON2y#Disassembly_Photos\">here<\/a> for why), so even if you have a non-Honda vehicle, you may want to look at these interfaces if you are looking for a way to hook an iPod to your head unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Spec PA11-HON2y Installed in a 2004 Accord So, long story short, has an iPod and was needing a good way to hook it up to his car, so wanted to get him one for Christmas. I suggested that she get the USA Spec, and said that I&#8217;d install it. Well, she did, and I\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-electronics","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24679,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150\/revisions\/24679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}