Galaxy Fitted With Sat Nav

[Guest dave lee]

Hi people,

This is my first posting as I am contemplating buying a Ford Galaxy this month.

I am thinking of buying a year old diesel automatic and then having GPS Sat Nav and Cruise control fitted.

Does any one know if this is possible and if it is a difficult job?

 

Regards

Dave

[Ivor_E_Tower]

It is possible, but I would suggest NOT getting a Ford dealer to do it - satnav etc go to audio specialist; cruise control - use someone like Holdspeed (if they're still going). I think that retro-fitting the factory bits will be prohibitively expensive.

[Guest Carl]

Hi Dave,

We were looking for a second hand diesel with sat nav but found it very difficult to find one.

 

We ended up buying a new 130 at a better price than buying second hand due to cash back from Fords plus a good discount from dealer. This also meant that we could order the colour we wanted and additional extras.

 

The sat nav is great worth every penny.

 

Carl

[Guest dave lee]

Thanks for the info guys.

Buying new eh? Hmmm Might have a think about that. Thanks again

[Guest JIMSTDI]

just had a alpine sat nav system dvd version which is a lot quicker than the cd rom version,put in to my tdi ghia,also have a 2nd gps system pda with tomtom 2

on it,both r very good

 

apine system cost:

[_dg]

I use a PDA (Ipaq) and TomTom II.

 

I find this a better, and more versatile system than a dedicated unit - plus it is a lot cheaper.

 

dg

[CasaPaulo]

I've heard that dedicated Sat Nav units are being stolen, as CD units are/were with all the aggro of broken windows & messed up dash etc. SO, since I wanted a talking GPS cos I got lost abroad I bought a portable unit that sits on the dash. The things are amazing. I'd like a custom fully fitted etc but as the guy in the shop said they're getting customers buying portables to replace the stolen fitted units. It certainly works perfectly tho I've bought a ext mag mount aerial cos I've a heated frt screen which partially blocked signals. It sits v/well on the dash on a bean bag. Solves all direction problems. Well pleased. Bit expensive but amazing bit of kit. I programmed a direct route from Marlow to SE London and travelled along so many deserted back roads that I re-directed it to go the "faster" M4 route. I'm still staggered by modern technology in such a small unit.

[CasaPaulo]

It's a Garmin Streetpilot 111 plus. Makros & Maplins are flogging it. Comes with 'all' Europe, which you partially download from a PC (2 discs) as and when to a 128mb media chip which then plugs in the back. Too much Euro info to store all areas. I think all UK would just fill it up. I knew nothing about the things apart from sampling my brother in laws OEM Ford Mondeo system, which was terrific. As said my main worry (part of living in London) was security, cos no doubt about it a dedicated system is aesthetically more pleasing, but this tranfers from car to car in seconds. So it has other plusses. When plugged into the cigar lighter the spk talks the route through with extreme detail. Maybe they all do. My aged brain is still getting to grips with all knobs & buttons. I notice that in the USA, the stores flog loads of mounts, even for motorbikes. If'n the OE bean bag/sticker/screw mount ain't best. So far so good.

[Guest JIMSTDI]

www.handnav.co.uk.do a very nice proclip for pda`s,

bought oe for my jornada 568..