V50 Electrics : Satnav power

[nickyr]

Has anyone hardwired a power source for their satnav / road angel?

Easy job? Complete pain?

[Blue 8]

Originally Posted by nickyr

Has anyone hardwired a power source for their satnav / road angel?

Easy job? Complete pain?

My sat nav sits in the furvist right corner of the front screen quite lower down,
I ran a 12volt ciggy socket into my glove box from the existing ciggy socket.

To run the sat nav cable i removed the little foam strip at the far right end top of the dash just below where my sat nat now lives and tucked the sat nav wire in the gap and replaced the foam back in the gap and over the cable, then run the cable down the pillar under the rubber trim then behind the kick panel then up and under the dash (neatly) up under the lower cover of the dash and then behind the centre console behind the ash tray area then up and behind the glove box , i then lowered the glove box ( about 8 torx screws) i think? dropped the end of the sat nav cable over the lip of the (now lowered g/box) then held the box back in place and screwed it back up , the cable comes in from the very top right hand corner so you can not see where it enters;-) from there i just open the glove box and plug it into my 12v socket when i need too, whole job took me about an hour and half from start to finish and no cables can be seen
Hope thats of some help to you
Andy

[kirium]

Hi, i run my satnav on an HTC Blackstone, through a powered Brodit holder - i popped the tray out behind the centre console, using a multi meter i found a 12v and ground cable that only switched on with the ignition in pos2 or above, then I scotch clipped a 12v socket in and plugged my HTC straight into it, cable tied it to the loom (to stop rattles and to stop it working loose over time) popped the tray back on and bobs your uncle. so a bit of a pain in the a** really

[Blue 8]

So was our help any good to you? did you ever fit it ?