Anyone know about SatNav ...

John Roberts

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... 'cos mine's broke. It's fitted in the car, and is the sort with a DVD, (or should that be CD?) when I switch it on the display shows something like "unable to read disc". I took the disc out to see if it had got dirty and blow me the printing was peeling off it in places, no doubt the inside of the SatNav will be littered with flakes of paint. Perhaps it got hot during a trip to Europe last Aug/Sept during which time it did throw occasional wobblies, but then again there are a lot of places much hotter than there.

So, a couple of questions,

  • Where can I find out how to remove the SatNav from the car- and will I have to disconnect the car battery with all that involves,
  • Where can I get guidance on cleaning the guts out of the thing?
I do have a certain ammount of experience with fiddly jobs in a past life.
 
Might help if you could narrow it down to what car, what sat-nav system it is and (even vaguely) how it seems to sit in your dashboard.....

Safe to say, it went in there.... so something (or someone) can take it out.



PS Pictures are good :thumb2


PPS Try Google. Here's a sample answer about a Nissan.... but no good if you have a Hummer.... or a Ferrari or even a SEAT. http://www.justanswer.com/uk-nissan/406dy-need-remove-sat-nav-front-screen-dash.html

A possible search enquiry might be: removing sat nav from car dashboard


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Why not just buy / borrow a fresh disk. See if it works.... If so, put away all thought of taking half your car apart perhaps, setting off the airbag (though that would be funny) and dropping that all important screw so that it rattles around in the air con from this day forward.....
 
Probably best bet is to google your car and find an owners forum and see if anyone else has had the same problem
 
BMW? A new disk would probably just work. If it is I can help.
 
First thing I would try is a head cleaning CD. There might be a flake of paint covering the laser thingy.

Better first step then ripping things out of dashboards
 
I'm with the others. It's probably worth a hoover out, and see if you can borrow a disc from someone with the same car. If you're not fussed about the latest maps, then previous years discs come up all the time on eBay.
 
First thing I would try is a head cleaning CD. There might be a flake of paint covering the laser thingy.

Better first step then ripping things out of dashboards
I googled a head cleaning CD and got
http://www.wikihow.com/Clean-a-CD-Player
It looks good, the same would apply to DVD player, no doubt except for having to do all that through the slot? :)
 
Just bought a secondhand SatNav off Bono.



But I think it's faulty - the streets have no name.
:hide
 
I googled a head cleaning CD and got
http://www.wikihow.com/Clean-a-CD-Player
It looks good, the same would apply to DVD player, no doubt except for having to do all that through the slot? :)

Here you go...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lens-Laser-...K7DS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324634935&sr=8-1

Its a disc with little pads on it. You put a drop of cleaning fluid on and pop it in the player. The drive tries to read it and the head gets cleaned in the process. Has saved my stereo's from a strip down on more than one occassion.
 
Thought I'd tell you what happened in case someone else had the same problem, as suggested, a new disc off eBay, job's a carrot.

If I remember, it cost £35 including p+p, a new one from Audi would have cost £200. :eek: Perhaps I'll buy my next Audi from eBay.:D

Anyway: thank you, folks. :beerjug:
 


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