Recommendations for 2006 Vanquish CarPlay upgrade

[nickv12]

Can anybody recommend Apple CarPlay upgrade installers for a 2006 Vanquish (the one with the Volvo sat nav screen)? I believe it's the same centre stack as the early DB9 and early VH Vantage models.

Ideally, I would like it to be an integral new touchscreen (ie. no additional controller required), as fully integrated into the overall audio system as possible.

I have tried Aston Installations, but really not sure at £3.6k.

Failing that, I'll get a modern USB/audio connector kit installed and have the iPhone in a good cradle. Any suggestion for this route appreciated too.

Thanks!

[stevenichols]

I've just realised that you don't have the ski-slope and satnav as fitted to the Vantage of that era. You might be as well off with an iPhone, Waze and a good mount, which can hold the phone horizontal. Not ideal, but not £3.5k either!

I took out my Volvo satnav equipment and installed a Garmin in its place. I've since changed this to a car play unit. It's just held onto the original frame with Velcro and works fine.

Edited by stevenichols on Tuesday 16th June 18:12

[nickv12]

stevenichols said:

I've just realised that you don't have the ski-slope and satnav as fitted to the Vantage of that era. You might be as well off with an iPhone, Waze and a good mount, which can hold the phone horizontal. Not ideal, but not £3.5k either!

I took out my Volvo satnav equipment and installed a Garmin in its place. I've since changed this to a car play unit. It's just held onto the original frame with Velcro and works fine.

Thanks! It's my backup plan

[stevenichols]

Good idea! Much cheaper and probably just as good. Incidentally, I have attached a photograph of my Car Play unit fitted to the Vantage. Cost less than £100 from China and plays music and gives directions through the FM radio. If anything, the display is a little dim, but I'm planning on fitting brighter LED backlights this winter when the car is off the road. If anyone wants details of the make and model just shout. It was hard to find a unit that would fit in the ski slope space. This one fits fine.

[Graze01]

Steve

Great solution

I’d be interested in the details if you could PM me

Thanks

Graeme

[Graze01]

Steve

Great solution

I’d be interested in the details if you could PM me

Thanks

Graeme

[nickv12]

stevenichols said:

Good idea! Much cheaper and probably just as good. Incidentally, I have attached a photograph of my Car Play unit fitted to the Vantage. Cost less than £100 from China and plays music and gives directions through the FM radio. If anything, the display is a little dim, but I'm planning on fitting brighter LED backlights this winter when the car is off the road. If anyone wants details of the make and model just shout. It was hard to find a unit that would fit in the ski slope space. This one fits fine.

That does look neatly integrated. I'm curious how you get the audio passed through to the stereo.

[Astonmannow]

What a great affordable install. Was it difficult to do?

[stevenichols]

The CarPlay unit has a built-in FM radio transmitter. I just tune the radio to the same frequency and voila, you get music, sat nav directions and hands free phone audio passed to the car radio. The quality is very good too. I just saved the frequency to one of the buttons so I just have to press "10" and away we go.

It automatically pairs with my iPhone so it is pretty seamless. Someone else has asked for more details so I'll dig out the box tomorrow and post the details here.