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Cumbria Intermediate Member Offline Posts: 352 Southport. Merseyside. Gender: Drives: 1999 CDX 2.5 Manual Saloon.	Fitting carin sat nav. 19. Sep 2008 at 16:02 Fitted carin sat nav today. No power getting to it only 5 wires in male conector 6 in female conector. There is a loose red wire though could this be the live wire thats pulled out of the male conector if so can i just splice it into the female red wire with scotchlock. Thanks.
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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: Fitting carin sat nav. Reply #1 - 19. Sep 2008 at 16:12 Yes, that adds to missing connector. Std pins from radio are ideal (Most car audio shops will sell, as will Dave DND).
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Cumbria Intermediate Member Offline Posts: 352 Southport. Merseyside. Gender: Drives: 1999 CDX 2.5 Manual Saloon.	Re: Fitting carin sat nav. Reply #2 - 19. Sep 2008 at 16:17 Would the pin just solder on to the red wire tha push back into male conector. Would halfords sell them.
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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: Fitting carin sat nav. Reply #3 - 19. Sep 2008 at 16:26 Cumbria wrote on 19. Sep 2008 at 16:17: Would the pin just solder on to the red wire tha push back into male conector. Would halfords sell them. Not sure Hellfrauds would sell. Craplins might, as would any car audio place...
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Re: Fitting carin sat nav.
Reply #4 - 20. Sep 2008 at 18:24

Sat Nav now working with brown lead atached to courtesy light as Jules sugests for testing purposes. But when i conect it to the brown wire on the 6 pin plug it doesnt could i just screw a hole behind the kick panel and put a self tapper in to earth it. Also wheres the best place to get an upto date disc & updated firmware disc. Thanks.

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Re: Fitting carin sat nav.
Reply #5 - 20. Sep 2008 at 19:56

Cumbria wrote on 20. Sep 2008 at 18:24:

Sat Nav now working with brown lead atached to courtesy light as Jules sugests for testing purposes. But when i conect it to the brown wire on the 6 pin plug it doesnt could i just screw a hole behind the kick panel and put a self tapper in to earth it. Also wheres the best place to get an upto date disc & updated firmware disc. Thanks.

I used a 0v stud up above the kick panel on both of mine.

Re firmware, what hardware is yours (from System Info menu), I have v2.3 for SY581.

For maps, try either dealer, or Navteq, quoting exactly the model you have.

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Cumbria Intermediate Member Offline Posts: 352 Southport. Merseyside. Gender: Drives: 1999 CDX 2.5 Manual Saloon.	Re: Fitting carin sat nav. Reply #6 - 20. Sep 2008 at 22:13 Its sys581 what difference does v2.3 make.
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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: Fitting carin sat nav. Reply #7 - 20. Sep 2008 at 22:18 Cumbria wrote on 20. Sep 2008 at 22:13: Its sys581 what difference does v2.3 make. What ver you running now?
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Cumbria Intermediate Member Offline Posts: 352 Southport. Merseyside. Gender: Drives: 1999 CDX 2.5 Manual Saloon.	Re: Fitting carin sat nav. Reply #8 - 20. Sep 2008 at 22:24 How do i check what version do i just go into system info.
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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: Fitting carin sat nav. Reply #9 - 20. Sep 2008 at 22:27 Cumbria wrote on 20. Sep 2008 at 22:24: How do i check what version do i just go into system info. yup, its the SW line
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Cumbria Intermediate Member Offline Posts: 352 Southport. Merseyside. Gender: Drives: 1999 CDX 2.5 Manual Saloon.	Re: Fitting carin sat nav. Reply #10 - 20. Sep 2008 at 22:30 Cheers TB will let you know tomorow.
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Cumbria Intermediate Member Offline Posts: 352 Southport. Merseyside. Gender: Drives: 1999 CDX 2.5 Manual Saloon.	Re: Fitting carin sat nav. Reply #11 - 21. Sep 2008 at 18:17 Ident: NO: 581/75 HW ID: 0105 SW ID: 0200 PROD DATE: 97/44 ERROR STORE CODE 1 COUNTS 3 TYPE: HW FAILURE READ EXTERNAL SPEED PULSES: 0 DIRECTION: REV Do these numbers sound right to you. Thanks.
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Re: Fitting carin sat nav.
Reply #12 - 21. Sep 2008 at 20:00

Cumbria wrote on 21. Sep 2008 at 18:17:

Ident: NO: 581/75
HW ID: 0105
SW ID: 0200
PROD DATE: 97/44

ERROR STORE
CODE 1
COUNTS 3
TYPE: HW FAILURE

READ EXTERNAL
SPEED PULSES: 0
DIRECTION: REV

Do these numbers sound right to you. Thanks.

Running v2.0 firmware then.

The hardware failures are worrying.

Updating to v2.3 firmware, as far as I can see, offers one new feature - it prepopulates the town when entering destination.

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Cumbria Intermediate Member Offline Posts: 352 Southport. Merseyside. Gender: Drives: 1999 CDX 2.5 Manual Saloon.	Re: Fitting carin sat nav. Reply #13 - 21. Sep 2008 at 22:59 How much to update to v2.3 roughly. How can i sort out the hard ware problem does it need a new brain. Seems to work ok.
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Re: Fitting carin sat nav.
Reply #14 - 22. Sep 2008 at 07:59

Cumbria wrote on 21. Sep 2008 at 22:59:

How much to update to v2.3 roughly. How can i sort out the hard ware problem does it need a new brain. Seems to work ok.

The update to firmware v2.3 used to be done by dealers, but apparently they can no longer get the update disk. That and the fact that nobody appears to support this system (Philips sold their automotive arm to Siemens, who sold to VDO, and who have just recently sold to someone else (name escapes me)) means that I guess its OK to provide the firmware. Unless anyone knows different.

So will cost you 1 blank CD, and 10mins of your time.

The hardware error may be due to using CDRs for map disk - does it occasionally spit the disk out?

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