XC90: Sat Nav is lost

[Steven Henry]

Just bought a used XC90 yesterday sat nav was convinced it was in the atlantic ocean and gps was showing 0 signals....thinking this had gone the same way as my unit in an Espace years ago...as a last ditch effort I checked the wires on rear of sat nav disc unit under passenger seat. The new car had just had a very thorough valet at the dealer and im thinking the detached wire i found may have resulted from this..one connector on back of unit had no wire inserted. When i reinserted it it instantly found 7 gps signals and it worked perfectly again.
I know hardware / disc issues and professional repairs can be very expensive ...sometimes a little bit of obvious fault finding can save expense...with some luck too of course

[green van man]

Not related to the new system but a conversation overheard at my dealer." Well sir, do you want to spend £300 trying to fix the in car sat nav, or would you preffer to go to halfords and buy a garmin for £150."

When my 10 year old garmin decided it could no longer find satellites, I binned it and baught a new one. Not realy an option on a built in unit when it goes wrong, the worrying thing is that a Volvo dealer suggested not bothering with the biult in system, which begs the question why bother in the first place.

Paul.

[Peakstone]

We seem to have lost our location settings in the navigation. It says we are in another town. That is until my partner decided to do a factory reset now we are in Stockholm - how do I tell the car I’m in the uk to start with. I also need to set everything back up - a little knowledge can cause huge problems and told him he shouldn’t touch what he doesn’t understand.

Can anyone point me in the right direction - I’ve left him watching you tube for a fix but to no avail.