Have 08 plate R.R. HSE TDV8, not fitted with GPS, Can anyone tell if this can be retro fitted without much trouble and expense. Dash appears to be set up as there is a GPS button, when pressed says (no GPS fitted).
Spare twin socket in boot space. Everything else works including blue tooth.

Thanks for attention - Rover 024 Jack

someone from your neck of the woods asked this same question....cant remember what the outcome was...might be worth doing a search.. ... - .- -.




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It was mzplcg, Stan (unless someone else asked this question as well). Sent him a PM. Maybe he'll chime in.

Funny how these things come up simultaneously. I just answered the same question for a guy from Cheshire who sent me a PM on RR.net. My reply:

You can do anything with enough time and energy - and money.

This topic actually has come up before. When it first came up, I had trouble believing that such a thing existed. Where is the sense in offering a touch screen w/o a nav? Some LR marketing guy or engineer still deserves a swift kick for that one.

There are 2 threads that I remember - there may be more but likely not here at rr.net as this board is very US based an all the vehicles in the US had satnav installed.
http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/post24931.html#24931
same user in this thread
http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic2737.html
though the thread itself should be of interest to you too as here the entire system is being retrofitted - screen and all.

I'd think that, with bits of the copper loom from a wrecker and the missing pieces of fiber loom it should not be too hard to do.

There will be some altering to the CCF done as well. The IIDTool should be able to do this - but I'll check with Christian and Patrick once they are awake. Otherwise I'm relatively sure only Colin's MSV will be able to do it (dealer can't). 
RRC 2Dr, RRC 4Dr,
P38, and 2 L322s
(wife thinks I'm nuts - prob right, too)

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cheers steve

there is another option of fitting an after market nav...plenty of info on that here on the forum... ... - .- -.




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To a touch screen RR?

The older I-bus vehicles, yes. But removing the OEM touch screen for an aftermarket unit... I'd def try to make the OEM nav work. 
RRC 2Dr, RRC 4Dr,
P38, and 2 L322s
(wife thinks I'm nuts - prob right, too)

didnt think really steve, cheers for correcting me..  ... - .- -.




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OK, Yes it's possible, and No, I didn't actually get as far as doing it.

I had a 2007 HSE which had no navigation fitted and I collected up all the bits required to make it work. This was a copper loom, a co-ax which does up to teh shark-fin for the GPS aerial and a DVD unit which reads the actual navigation DVD. This was all done with help from Colin @ Blackbox Solutions. That's the good news.

The bad news is that the car was an utter nail which ended up back at the dealers for a refund after the 4th fuel leak (amongst many other problems) which actually caused a small fire. So I never got to the part where I was actually fitting it all. That's the bad news.

The parts which I collected are still in a box, except the actual DVD drive which I sold. So basically I have the copper loom and the co-ax cable whcih I could be persuaded to part with possibly.

Yes, it needs Faultmate (or similar) to edit the CCF file in order to turn this on.

Now, this would give BASIC navigation. What it does not include is the Traffic information. That needs a couple of other bits to enable that but it does not need to be installed for the basic navigation to work.

HTH.

Dom.

Just spoke to Christian, our chief engineer. The IIDTool will do the necessary CCF editing. He did also mention that although the Jag nav and RR nav may be the same hardware-wise, if the sw had differences it may not work as the screen and the nav computer communicate on a private CAN.

As you already have the nav - try it. Worst come to worst you'll need to pick up a RR nav. 
RRC 2Dr, RRC 4Dr,
P38, and 2 L322s
(wife thinks I'm nuts - prob right, too)