Install GPS Radio

(project by Marc Kloosterman)

DESCRIPTION TOOLS

How to install a navigation radio in 10 steps: The big issue with these radios is: you need a reverse light wire and speed pulse.

A medium screwdriver

3mm allen screwdriver

 

SAFETY TIPS PARTS

You will be re wiring parts of the cars electrical system to complete this project. Please remeber that a cars eletrical system is based on direct current and incorrectly connecting positive and negative terminals can cause electrical compontents to fail.

A GPS Radio kit

In line electrical connectors (like choc blox)

 

WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO

STEP

ACTION
1

Remove Grundig by prodding a skewer or small screwdriver in each of the 4 holes

2

These things came in very handy - they connect any wire to an existing wire. EUR 0.35 a piece, or only EUR 7.75 a box of 50 (so you can screw up a bit).

3

The Grundig radio doesn't have a switching plus - you can find one at the digital clock (yellow wire)
Look here how to disassemble the lower half of the console.

4

The reverse lamp wire can be taken from the fusebox: the white wire (2nd connection bottom left)

5

Finally, to get to the speed-pulse, remove the dashboard cluster.
Look here how to remove it.

6

and find the light blue wire on the left of the back of the speedo

7

Find a suitable place for the GPS antenna. I'm experimenting with the location underneath the handbrake (wire running through the right hole). It found 4 out of a possible 10 satellites last time...

If I put the GPS receiver in the centre console, I get between 3 and 5 satelites. But when placed behind the seats, it gets 7 to 9 satellites!

8

Hook everything up (except for the non-switching plus originally on the Grundig) to the cable loom.

9

Remove the metal insert from the centre console - this bit belongs to the Grundig - any other radio wouldn't fit otherwise (believe me, I've tried ... hard!)

10

Don't forget the fascia and ... Hey presto! 10 Satellites