InCarTec Join Talk Audio
Talk Audio has a nice shiny new gap-filler of a Site Associate. The gap is obvious from the pictures and the company is InCarTec. Brainchild of Mr. Steve Patient.
What is sweet to me personally is to be welcoming a genuine actual legend of UK car HiFi into our midst. It may seem all old-farty and (put on old geezer’s voice with a croak, here) ‘This was all fields when I was a kid’ but the chap behind this corporate entity, is the same who started the first proper car audio wiring company in the UK. Before Autoleads, it was impossible to get anything except mad price importado car audio power cables and then suddenly, this wiring was in every shop. It was solid, reliable, used a sexy collet secure system to bite a power cable and was above all, well designed of accessory and affordable. It was so successful that it was bought by the Hal of fords (Sorry but the independents would be sniffy if my copy auto-linked out of here, to there, Steve!) and to this very day the brand hangs in a cluster of wiring bits and bobs inside every car audio department in every yellow-fronted shop.
Popular myth had it that he had emigrated to Monaco and was living on a thousand-foot yacht.
Fact is, he took a beat and came back and the same gently-spoken elegance of thought and design, with a method that is pure Bigweld (‘See a need, fill a need!’ Disney Pixar Robots.) and thus kind of signature showing in the very products themselves, once again Steve set up a company to fill a technical car audio gap. A pukka businessman of course, InCarTec also deal in a serious breadth of other 12V solution products but thie press release that made me call him up, had these products in it and I called to accuse him of designing the ‘˜why has no-one else done this before?’ products, just from the obvius simplicity of it all.
Which is in fact the mark of genius! OK, so here’s some clever widgety stuff a LOT of you can find useful.
This line of kit obviates any issues at all of where you fit your aux sockets or 12V USB power. They do all sorts of other stuff just check here, to start with: link
But these ones, we really liked:
In Car USB Charger Socket
Part no: 24-022
Price: £11.90 + VAT
Description
5 Volt USB charger with high 2.1 Ampere charge rate suitable for iPad. Simply connect to a +12V power supply and ground.
28mm hole diameter.
In Car USB Charger & 3.5mm AUX In Socket
Part no: 24-030
Price: £14.50 + VAT
Description
5 Volt USB charger with 1.2 Ampere charge rate. Includes a 3.5mm stereo jack socket and cables to connect to the AUX input of a car radio. Can be used to replace the car’s existing cigarette lighter.
Simply connect to a +12V power supply and ground.
Use with item code 24-220 for Ford CD6000 Aux in Audio upgrade
In Car USB extension socket
Part no: 24-017
Price: £9.50 + VAT
Description
USB 2m extension cable used to extend rear radio USB socket into the car interior.
25mm hole diameter
Use with existing aftermarket head-units to move the USB to a fixed location
In Car 3.5mm Jack Socket
Part no: 24-007
Price: £7.50 + VAT
Description
3.5mm stereo jack socket for car interior. 18mm hole size. Push fit
750mm cable length terminated in phono plugs to be connected to the AUX input on new aftermarket radios, or use with one of our adapters.
Can easily be combined with one of our OEM aux-in cables like 24-220 (Ford CD6000). 24-224 (Renault Update list), 24-203 ( Fiat), 24-222 (Mercedes Audio 20)
In Car Discreet Fit 3.5mm Jack Socket
Part no 24-006
Price £3.50 & VAT
Description
3.5mm stereo jack socket for car interior. 6mm diameter hole size
Unterminated 500mm cable length to be connected to the AUX input on OEM radios. Nut and thread mount on up to 2mm panel. Discreet fit ideal for mounting onto spare switch blanks.