Playing iPod Touch in car

There are a few possibilities:

1. 1. you probably need to select the USB input on the car's audio system (which may know as the car stereo, or infotainment system). Look on the menu for the audio system, for USB. Select that and then use the iPod controls to start music playing.
   2. check to see whether your car can use a Bluetooth connection. (Look in the audio system's menu again, or check the audio manual for the car.) If it can, you should be able to connect the iPod Touch and the car by Bluetooth, which would do away with the need for the cable. If there is a Bluetooth option, let us know and we can provide the specific steps required to make the connection. (One caveat though, if you already use Bluetooth to connect your phone to the car, you almost certainly will not be able to use Bluetooth for the iPod at the same time.)
   3. If neither of those options are possible, you should look to see whether there is a 3.5mm audio socket in your car. If there is, it's disposable to use a cable from the headphone socket on the iPod to the audio jack input on the car. (This is a longshot, many modern cars do not have a audio jack input socket (the 3.5mm socket).

The cigarette lighter socket and the USB socket look quite different. On modern cars, the "cigarette lighter" socket no longer has the lighter plug in it. Instead, that socket provides a 12 volt battery supply and cannot be used for the iPod.

If your car is old (even 2002), I would expect it to have an audio socket (known as an AUX socket, also know additionally in Europe as the 3.5mm jack socket).