Disclaimer, I am very fresh to modding cars, although I do know a bit about wiring, I don’t know the ins and outs of this topic.
I am looking for a seamless way to play music in my 2008 Nissan Murano (Bose speakers). By seamless I mean without a need to go into bluetooth settings on my phone every time I get into my car (now that I think about it most bluetooth devices already do this). The first thing that came into my mind was adding carplay. I have seen that there are kits that add that functionality, mostly from China. I am quite picky about the responsiveness of those kind of devices (I hated the carplay on a 2024 peugeot 308) and so I am skeptical, considering they are not dirt dirt cheap. A carplay kit would also be nice because it would repurpose the screen that I simply don’t use. Its probably to impossible to recommend a single carplay unit because there are so many. But I would like some opinions about the user experience of those kits (is it responsive, refresh rate etc.).
Then I thought of something, the screen that is already in my car is decent (at least I think), and I don’t really need touch functionality (there is a nice selector wheel). Maybe I there is a kit, which would just be the computer without the screen? I do have plenty of space in the dash, as there is a 6 cd cd player (probably I can remove it).
Also, carplay does feel kinda overkill considering I am not sure if I will feel comfortable looking at the screen which is further away from the steering column than my phone holder. I wouldn’t say this if I could use my phone for maps and the carplay for something else, but apparently you can’t. Then again, the screen is currently useless. Unless there is some 3rd party/open source thing that could just display apple music on the screen (I am fine with tinkering and DIY project).
For now I have found that you can simply find a bluetooth to aux audio adapter, which will will work, and will be better than an fm transmitter while costing nothing (my car has an aux port). Furthermore, I can just buy it now as there are stores which have it in stock. Any way thanks for input.