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Mine has gone a little eccentric over the last couple of days. The lighting intermittently packs and it drops the phone blue tooth, but the steering wheel button still work.
If it gets worse I’ll have to swap it out, but was wondering whether to go for something with DAB and Sat Nav built in rather than a like for like replacement.
Has anyone tried upgrading or is it a total pain in the balls?
Car is an S-Max, so the replacement will have to fit the hole in the dash.
Not done an upgrade but I do have a Ford/DENSO unit with Satnav built in and I'd say that, much as it is a convenience and looks neat, it is crap.
The satnav software itself is nowhere near as good as a proper satnav or even just Google Maps / Waze. Plus, on my system at least, it runs off a DVD so it is slow and massively out of date.
I've swapped mine to an Alpine double din unit in my C-max, you can get a bit of plastic trim off eBay that fills the gap to make it din shaped. I also had to cut out a bit of plastic behind the dash (all hidden ) to make the hole din sized.
You also need all the ford-iso and iso-whoever loom adapters and for the steering column controls.
Depending on your faff tolerance/budget ratio it's one of those jobs that's quicker for halfords or boy racer shop to do as they have every conceivable addapter to hand.
I have a zero tolerance for faff.
Watching with interest as mine is also on the blink... Randomly deciding the ignition isn;t on, while the engine is running!
I suppose it could just be a loose connection but the surface is wearing off some of the buttons too
Mine doesn't switch off with the ignition. It waits for a few seconds first.
It started on Tuesday with the back lighting cutting in and out and the voice control for the phone not working.
Will put up with it for now as the rest of the car is still going strong, but if the audio itself starts to fail i'll have to do something about it. The prospect of spending 10 hours a week in it listening to the engine doesn't appeal.
Mine has gone a little eccentric over the last couple of days. The lighting intermittently packs
Yup
Mine doesn’t switch off with the ignition. It waits for a few seconds first.
Soon to be followed by it not switching on with the ignition, then losing the time, then losing its passcode
Same thing with the Mondeo. The first line of the removal procedure contained the words 'special tool' at which point I lost interest.
How did you resolve it?
I had one of those in my Mondeo - one day it started losing pixels on the display. Then I realised I was wearing Polarised sunglasses 😀
I had one of those in my Mondeo – one day it started losing pixels on the display. Then I realised I was wearing Polarised sunglasses 😀
Off-topic I know, but I had something similar recently. It seems my phone has a polarised screen. Looking at the screen normally whilst wearing sunglasses it's perfectly fine, rotate it 90' into "landscape" orientation and it goes totally black. Dead handy when you fish it out of your pocket to take photos and spend 30 seconds wondering why the bloody thing won't switch on...
It's a five minute job at the most. Couple of release keys. A wiring loom and a cage. I removed the 6000 from our old mondeo and old fiesta with no worries.
Stuck a nice pioneer double din dab in both of them.
It switched itself on with the ignition this evening. Time to get rid.
Just had a go at removing the trim with a pallet knife after watching a YouTube video. Simple.
Will get a replacement 6000 CD from a breaker on eBay for £50 including codes.
What about an Apple play unit? They also work with android. Always up to date maps as it feeds of the phone.
Nah. I'm old school and a bit tight with money. If I can replace it myself for 50 quid I've won.
Depending on your faff tolerance/budget ratio it’s one of those jobs that’s quicker for halfords or boy racer shop to do as they have every conceivable addapter to hand.
Avoid Halfords, I had an Alpine unit fitted by them into my Octavia, the bloke really struggled to fit it, and took two hours when it should have taken 30-40 minutes.
When I replaced that with a Kenwood DAB unit, which I bought from Halfords on an offer, I found a place in Westbury that did audio fitting and window tints, when the bloke there took the Alpine unit out, he asked me who the bloody hell had fitted it, Halfords, I said. Figures, he said.
That unit is still working fine six or seven years later, the only thing I’ve changed is having a mag mount DAB antenna fitted, in place of the stick-on windscreen one. Makes a huge difference to reception, there are very, very few places I can’t get a signal.
I hear one of the issues in these Ford's is that the speakers are poor. Anyone upgraded those too?
I hear one of the issues in these Ford’s is that the speakers are poor.
Can't say that I've noticed myself.