General Retrofit sat nav Heated seats

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General Retrofit sat nav Heated seats

mss1641

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I have a 5ooL trekking model March 2014 spec, I wanted sat nav at the time but it wasnt available, now models come with built in sat nav which looks the same size as my present radio/cd console, has anyone had this replaced with a sat nav unit?
Also same question re heated seats has anyone had these fitted at a later date?
 
I think that although retro-fitting of these items may be possible, if you're talking dealer prices (which you'd likely have to do to maintain your warranty) you'll need pretty deep pockets! A couple of weeks ago, I managed to get a Fiat radio with DAB and have fitted it into my 500L, but if you look around, the standard non-DAB radio's (if you can find one) are going for anything from £225 up to around £350 so what a dealer would want for the included Sat-nav version is anyones guess, but I doubt it would be cheap! Seat-wise, I reckon a dealer would want to swap the seats rather than fit heated seat pads into the cushions, so again I think you'd be looking at mega-money. As an alternative, could you buy heated seat pads, unbolt the seats and find a local upholsterer who could strip and fit the pads into the seats for you? You'd then just need to wire them in (if your car didn't have this option when new, wiring may not be already in the cars harness). Even after the expense, it's doubtful if the car would be worth any more money when you eventually came to sell it, so you'd really need to get your moneys worth out of it before selling the car on.
Keith.
 
Thanks for reply, where did you get your radio from (dealer/private?) is it the same size model etc as you took out, may I ask how much? I'd be interested in doing the same, Thanks.
 
Hi.
I was very lucky in getting the radio. I found it on Ebay, apparently the young guy (a doctor) selling it had a brick thrown through his windscreen by lowlives who pinched his dashcam and caused £3000 worth of damage to the cars interior. His insurance paid to replace radio, steering wheel and stalk controls, all the dash panels, switchgear below the radio etc, and a full set of almost new genuine Fiat carpet mats. Garage gave him all the replaced parts, and he put the lot as one item on Ebay. I was the only bidder and got the lot for £50........how lucky was that! You'd be hard pressed to find the 1 mark on the radio fascia, and it works perfectly. All I had to do was buy a 'glass fix' DAB aerial and a Fakra to SMB aerial lead converter, 30 minutes to swap radio's and job done! The only slight snag is that having changed the radio, I have the total mileage flashing, but can live with that, as I have the Multiecuscan software and leads, just need to work out how to do the proxy alignment reset. It cost me a 160 mile round trip to collect the radio etc, but well worth it!
Keith.
 
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