Hard wiring Road Angel Navigator

[botty]

I was wondering whether anyone has an experience of hardwiring Sat nav into their vehicle? I bought the unit from Halfords and they say they can do it. I feel a bit anxious letting them loose on my new 'pride and joy'. Any thoughts?

[nigelt5cd]

I mounted a 12 volt outlet in the glove box Auto spares shop £? cheap If they they they can do it ask what the result will be like ask them do they cover you if they screw up get it in writing tell them your conscerns If they dont give a satisfactory answer fing an auto electrition or a car audio specialist ask the same questions. Who have they done it for can you email speak wirte to them

[Paul Wildsmith]

On my S80, I ran a cable from the dash power socket to another socket that just fits inside the fuse holder on the right of the dash. Don't know if you have a similar arrangement on the XC90.

[Chris_B]

I have seen one istallation where the sat-nav (a Tom Tom I think) was mounted to the speaker cover in the middle of the dash which looked quite neat as the power cable was kept inside the dash. This has the added advantage when it comes to selling the car or replacing the sat-nav, all that you would have to do is replace the speaker cover so no holes anywhere else.

[StevePritchard]

I can recommend the Brodit holders and mounting system - they just clip onto vents and so forth - very neat, and no holes. I've got a few bits wired to my XC90. My PDA (phone and sat nav) cradle plus my BlueTooth GPS are live all the time, and my Parrot EasyDrive which is hidden in the centre console is ignition controlled - all works well.

Cheers,

Steve.

[JsR]

Have a look at the SweedSpeed forum - they show some neat installations

try...

http://forums.swedespeed.com/zerothread?id=52498

hope this helps

John R