Sat Nav Navigation Unit

[Fermanaghman]

Hi there.

I've just bought a 2001 GS300...and wondered why I waited so long to sit behind the wheel of a great motor..!!

Now, it has a Sat Nav type consul fitted BUT it does not have any other Sat Nav "bits" so I guess the centre console unit was changed at some time simply to replace the existing heater, radio,tape,CD unit. I am now looking for a navigation unit to actually get sat-nav facility but I am wondering if I can broaden my field by looking at Toyota units, as a s/hand Mk2 Lexus player is expensive compared to Toyota units on eBay. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. Geoff H

[eXOBeX]

The nav controller would normally live in the boot, but needs the cabling as well. Non-nav cars didn't have the nav harness, so if you have the cabling there but no nav unit then it's been taken out. Certainly if you have the widescreen nav screen then at least some other stuff has been fitted as it requires a gateway ECU to allow the AVC-LAN and BEAN networks to talk to each other, without this the heater controls don't work.

I retrofitted the full widescreen nav system to mine, details at http://www.ult-search.co.uk/gsnav/, you may be in luck with a LandCruiser 100 or Prius nav unit.