Removing Fascia Unit
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Do you have RAVE???
Also check out RANGEROVERS.NET HOME as this has details of how to do it too I believe.
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Also check out RANGEROVERS.NET HOME as this has details of how to do it too I believe.
D/L RAVE from here land rover service factory manual RAVE download land rover resource, service manual, workshop factory manual, download, rave, vehicles including discovery, series, defender, range rover, freelander, LR3, Handbooks, Catalog, Catalogue, Land Rover Inte
I do have Rave, but I have no idea how to find the instructions in it since it's about 1400 pages long. Any ideas what section?
I'll check out the other site, thanks.
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HeVAC units are, to a certain extent, year dependant and some don't have heated seat switches I would search the forum on HeVac and see what problems members have had with early and late units. Rest should be the same I think.
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Alan C
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The facias are pretty much all the same, excepting the majority are all black plastic with a cubby hole for storage. There's a few black plastic with early sat nav, a fewer less burr wallnut with early or late sat nav. They'll all fit on any car.
Oh Wow!
Excellent, good to know - I just wondered because some have the low range switch, some the cruise, some the front fog light; but I presume that one just doesn't have a plug for those features which the car lacks.
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Exactly. On the auto models the left most switch is fitted with a blank where the manual would have a range switch, same for the diesels with no front fog light switch. All the switches/blanks can be removed and swapped over etc. You can even fit the SAT nav panel if you really wanted, though it's very tedious and not worth it (involves much work, new looms etc), the newest SAT nav design is almost 15 years old and outdated.TCubed said:
I am hoping to put in a new satnav (as in a modern one), still working on the engineering of how that will work though!
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I replaced the Clarion head unit with a single DIN SAT nav unit from JVC
Flipping expensive, but has loads of features (once I managed to get it fully wired up). Supports DVD playback, built in hard drive for MP3s, can control external CD stacker and bluetooth kit for hands free and I also have an iPod connection with control of my iPhone. Only today finally got the steering wheel switches fully working too
Not sure they're made anymore, mine's now a few years old, and the SAT nav is a bit clunky as it desn't accept a full postcode, but it's still very usable.
Flipping expensive, but has loads of features (once I managed to get it fully wired up). Supports DVD playback, built in hard drive for MP3s, can control external CD stacker and bluetooth kit for hands free and I also have an iPod connection with control of my iPhone. Only today finally got the steering wheel switches fully working too
Not sure they're made anymore, mine's now a few years old, and the SAT nav is a bit clunky as it desn't accept a full postcode, but it's still very usable.
A while back I saw an install where the guy 'just' mounted a stand-alone sat nav (Tom Tom, Garmin or similar) in his dash. He'd cut the panel with the fan hole and fitted it in that space. He'd wired the supply up from somewhere in the dash and found a sat nav that took an external aerial supply. A bit of trim round the unit and it looked good.
Been looking to build in my tom 1 but with the shape cant figure out any suitable method, if just it was a square/rectangular garmin or like it would be in alreday,
any suggestions welcome
I was thinking of getting one which was nearly as large as the hole, and then sealing with some rubber the same colour as the dash. My two challenges are powering it, because while there are numerous taps behind the dash, it needs it's transformer, and secondly making sure it gets a signal.
No need for transformer for portable, got a power cable for the cigar lighter there will connect behind/out of view somewhere
its more to get it to look neat & not like an old telly
No need for transformer for portable, got a power cable for the cigar lighter there will connect behind/out of view somewhere
its more to get it to look neat & not like an old telly
Are you sure about that? Most satnav's draw power through a mini USB (5V, 0.5A) so that they can be connected to a computer for updates. Hence the 12V needs to be stepped down for them.
Just buy an in-car charger lead, open and discard the cigarette lighter plug and solder new wires into the appropriate places. One to a supply and the other to earth. Wrap it up in insulating or self amalgam tape to insulate and tuck it out the way somewhere.
