Aftermarket GPS

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monty2556

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I've got a 2007 Freelander XS. I've been told that there is an aftermarket kit to enable the Garmin Nuvi to be fitted to the dash where the LR built in GPS would normally sit. Anyone heard of such a kit?
 
Smartphones now have such good satnav and large screens. Plus google maps satnav never goes out of date. just a thought I think standalone sat navs could well have had their day.
 
Freel2.com has a really detailed thread about how to do it. It's not a kit, but there's a few sat navs which are exactly the right size to fit in the recess above the radio.

essentially, you remove the cubby box, drill a hole in the back for a power connection and feed it via the glovebox, loads and loads on the forum above.
 
I have seen these aftermarket kits online, they look pretty good but to be fair anything including a wishbone stick is better than the stock sat nav landrover provide!

The ones touch screen ones with DVB-t and external DVD player are about £700 with import taxes and handling charges
 
Unless you live in a hilly wilderness, like me, and have limited phone signal :mad:

Or even London!!!!!

I have just bought a Tom Tom Go 6000 with traffic built in with a. 6" screen. It is brilliant. I have hard wired it to the fuse box on a switched live and it sits in the right hand corner if my windscreen.

I find my iPhone's 4" screen is too small to read as a sat nav, (I have Tom Tom. & Navigon apps) and google maps is unreliable in South London and the full size iPad too big and heavy to fit to the dash.

I was using Skoda's excellent built in Columbus navigation until I sold the car, quite possibly one of the best built in sat navs around.
 
I find Google Nav ok but the new update doesn't seem to allow alternate routes. The other week the A34 was shut so I tried to pick a cross country route to Hungerford, then Wantage and Oxford. The nav insisted on sending me al the way up to the M4 then south to Hungerford- the exact route I was trying to avoid.. and I could not get it to change it's mind! A few weeks ago it offered alternate routes but some A-hole decided this wasn't needed any more! :(

So I want a standalone.

Not sure how big the space on the FL2 is, but how about looking into fitting a tablet in there and running everything off that?
 
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