SAT NAV INSTALL GUIDE - (in memory of Janitor)
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In loving memory of our great friend Janitor I thought I’d prepare an installation guide with a ‘cheeky’ touch 
I loved the way Janitor 'got his tools out' and did his ICE install himself, and with such passion described everystep… Well sadly I just don’t have the hours in the day to do it all myself so here’s how I did it!
Step 1.
Fire up the PC and spend an evening researching away… god I love the internet!
Step 2.
Decide that the best of the best is the new Pioneer AVIC X1BT. Watch the fantastic demo on Pioneers site… decide you’ve gotta have one!
clicky click
Step 3.
Trawl the net price matching…and find the website of Audio 66 www.audio66.com who offered the X1BT with free fitting. Pioneer are also running a promo where if you buy this device you get a free gift of a portable navigation system (AVIC-S1) for a 2nd car worth about £350 !!!
clicky click
Step 4.
Call Audio 66’s Bricks & Mortar business Road Radio Ltd and hey presto booked in for fitting in 2 days later!
Step 5.
Hop into car….
Step 6.
Dig out tatty road map and head to Crawley…
Step 7.
Sit in Costa coffee for a few hours & get some work done on the old laptop
Step 8.
Pop back to collect the car… WOW… DOUBLE WOW
Not only have they fitted the X1BT and a CBiB 100 ipod adapter, they also hard wired my Origin BT Solo for free !!
Step 9.
Then it’s time to fire her up, stick in my postcode and see where I end up!
Thankfully it took me home perfectly…All the way home I switched between my ipod, CD’s and the radio for tuneage, as well as making a few work calls using the Bluetooth telephone function… man it’s cool just hit the telephone button, your mobile phone book is all there, hit dial and talk hands free!
I’ve still got the 152 page manual to trawl through at some stage, but being a man it will probably get left in the box and I’ll keep pressing buttons until I’ve worked it all out
Top marks to Road Radio, really good service and excellent fitting. Top marks to Pioneer for an amazing product… it really does do a lot of cool stuff!
Just received my FREE AVIC-S1 portable device through the post yesterday… it’s wicked! Much better than a Tom Tom, does Bluetooth dialling too and very, very sexy! Just need to get round to buying a 2nd car to put it in!
I LOVE TOYS!
Step 10.
Throw that crappy 1991 road map in the bin!!
PS I know it’s not as good a guide as yours Janitor but I thought I’d give it a go
I loved the way Janitor 'got his tools out' and did his ICE install himself, and with such passion described everystep… Well sadly I just don’t have the hours in the day to do it all myself so here’s how I did it!
Step 1.
Fire up the PC and spend an evening researching away… god I love the internet!
Step 2.
Decide that the best of the best is the new Pioneer AVIC X1BT. Watch the fantastic demo on Pioneers site… decide you’ve gotta have one!
clicky click
Step 3.
Trawl the net price matching…and find the website of Audio 66 www.audio66.com who offered the X1BT with free fitting. Pioneer are also running a promo where if you buy this device you get a free gift of a portable navigation system (AVIC-S1) for a 2nd car worth about £350 !!!
clicky click
Step 4.
Call Audio 66’s Bricks & Mortar business Road Radio Ltd and hey presto booked in for fitting in 2 days later!
Step 5.
Hop into car….
Step 6.
Dig out tatty road map and head to Crawley…
Step 7.
Sit in Costa coffee for a few hours & get some work done on the old laptop
Step 8.
Pop back to collect the car… WOW… DOUBLE WOW
Not only have they fitted the X1BT and a CBiB 100 ipod adapter, they also hard wired my Origin BT Solo for free !!
Step 9.
Then it’s time to fire her up, stick in my postcode and see where I end up!
Thankfully it took me home perfectly…All the way home I switched between my ipod, CD’s and the radio for tuneage, as well as making a few work calls using the Bluetooth telephone function… man it’s cool just hit the telephone button, your mobile phone book is all there, hit dial and talk hands free!
I’ve still got the 152 page manual to trawl through at some stage, but being a man it will probably get left in the box and I’ll keep pressing buttons until I’ve worked it all out
Top marks to Road Radio, really good service and excellent fitting. Top marks to Pioneer for an amazing product… it really does do a lot of cool stuff!
Just received my FREE AVIC-S1 portable device through the post yesterday… it’s wicked! Much better than a Tom Tom, does Bluetooth dialling too and very, very sexy! Just need to get round to buying a 2nd car to put it in!
I LOVE TOYS!
Step 10.
Throw that crappy 1991 road map in the bin!!
PS I know it’s not as good a guide as yours Janitor but I thought I’d give it a go
cheekymonkey said:
rfoster said:
Very good cheeky monkey. Just one question....why Crawley? It's a s**thole! (says the man living 5 miles east.)
Because that's where their head office is to take advantage of free fitting
Otherwise I had quotes of £300 to £500 to fit!!!!
pioneer's head office?
Did you include the rear camera and Ipod kid and the G meters...
... all exited!
gooby said:
cheekymonkey said:
rfoster said:
Very good cheeky monkey. Just one question....why Crawley? It's a s**thole! (says the man living 5 miles east.)
Because that's where their head office is to take advantage of free fitting
Otherwise I had quotes of £300 to £500 to fit!!!!
pioneer's head office?
Did you include the rear camera and Ipod kid and the G meters...
... all exited!
Nah Road Radio Cars (the people I bought from) they are a franchise but main shop is Crawley.. Really good. I did speak to Bravaria here but they were SOOOOOO much more expensive & gave me a load of cobblers about buying online to try and put me off which really annoyed me.
I did get the iPod kit which is wicked but not the camera... not really needed in the elise but deffo if it was Exige (or in my fantasy Ultima)
gooby said:
S Works said:
Sweet - nice piece of kit there Mr Monkey.
New contract you were chasing came through then?
Ha ha... yeah writing the tech spec right now and it's soooo boring I thought I'd stick this post up instead
It's a big project and I wanted to treat myself in advance Booked a holiday too... woo hoo Sri lanka for 3 weeks... counting down the days!
cheekymonkey said:
Ha ha... yeah writing the tech spec right now and it's soooo boring I thought I'd stick this post up instead
It's a big project and I wanted to treat myself in advance Booked a holiday too... woo hoo Sri lanka for 3 weeks... counting down the days!
Congratulations! I am spending weeks writing SOW's for various clients and I am bored stoopid.
Are you going with Mrs Cheeky? or is it going alone to enjoy the "haircut and massage 9 dorrar" ?
gooby said:
cheekymonkey said:
Ha ha... yeah writing the tech spec right now and it's soooo boring I thought I'd stick this post up instead
It's a big project and I wanted to treat myself in advance Booked a holiday too... woo hoo Sri lanka for 3 weeks... counting down the days!
Congratulations! I am spending weeks writing SOW's for various clients and I am bored stoopid.
Are you going with Mrs Cheeky? or is it going alone to enjoy the "haircut and massage 9 dorrar" ?
Yeah me & Miss Cheeky & surfboard
Staying in a lovely little guesthouse with private beach in middle no-where on south west coast... it's going to be well needed time out having not been on proper holiday for 2 yrs.philygumbo said:
By golly that's hi-tech! The picture in step5 had me drooling on the keyboard, all clean and gorgeous.
I am reminded of how I took the pi$$ out of Janitor for fitting ice to an Elise and started the whole Max Bygraves thing. Now I think I'm gonna cry again.
Phil.
I am reminded of how I took the pi$$ out of Janitor for fitting ice to an Elise and started the whole Max Bygraves thing. Now I think I'm gonna cry again.
Phil.
Ha ha.... I've always been anti ICE myself... the thing is now I might have to upgrade the speakers a bit which I thought I'd never say!
It's a stunnign bit of kit. I just didn't want the whole portable thing with wires all over the cabin that's really why I went the whole hog and got an in-dash system. As they hardwired the B2 too I've now got fag lighter free for bullet cam at all times
cheekymonkey said:
Ha ha.... I've always been anti ICE myself... the thing is now I might have to upgrade the speakers a bit which I thought I'd never say!
Welcome to the dark side my friend. My new Infinity's will be going in this week, then for Christmas (or maybe early
) I'm gonna get me one-a-them shiny Alpine subs like Janitor and handbag have got. A good HU deserves good back-up 
gooby said:
How is it configured for digital radio?
That's probabaly page 111 ... i haven't got that far
To be honest I haven't a clue and I don't listen to radio except for traffic broadcasts and that ties in neatly to the sat nav system. It wasn't on my selction criteria but I'll keep reading and get back to you
cheekymonkey said:
gooby said:
How is it configured for digital radio?
That's probabaly page 111 ... i haven't got that far
To be honest I haven't a clue and I don't listen to radio except for traffic broadcasts and that ties in neatly to the sat nav system. It wasn't on my selction criteria but I'll keep reading and get back to you
Did you have digital with your original HU? From what I remember when I was looking at one, I would have to buy an additional box for the digital radio. Then the converter for the Ipod, then the rear camera and then the g-force sensor/box.....
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