P38 Sat Nav

Hello everybodypips,

I have a 2.5 DSE manual 1998, love it to bits of course and have replaced the air suspension with coil springs so she holds the road better and doesn't give me any jip off road anymore.

I have a Tom Tom but I am generally getting annoyed with the whole routine I have to go through just so I can pull off the drive. I know that certain models of the P38 have in built sat nav, I have looked into buying the bits and they seem readily available so how hard is it to install the system?

Do you buy the screen and CD player and wire it up or is their an extra bit of kit in the computer, under bonnet or elsewhere?

For that matter is their some firm that will install the system apart from Landrover?

Any advice would be great.

Thanks all

Slippy1701

Hello There,
deal with guy on Ebay, he supplied parts for my Sat Nav with no problems.

BMW/ RANGE ROVER NAV & REPAIRS on eBay, also GPS Systems, Navigation GPS, In-Car Entertainment GPS, Cars, Parts Vehicles (end time 01-Jun-08 11:29:04 BST)

Hope this helps.

Cheers, will give him a bell and see what he can recommend.

I ordered the full kit from Mr ebay guy today, expensive but well worth it i think. I just hope it's as easy to fit as he says it is!

Can you advise me how to contact this guy. The link you used has long since expired.


Regards, Tony.

i stopped using my system when i had my p38, it's **** compared to a tom tom or garmin.

Yes, I agree with you I am just trying to keep the car as original as possible and was hoping to get the CD unit replaced or repaired.

Thanks for getting back to me. Cheers, Tony.

On the limited number of times I've used the original satnav, I have to say it's worked fine. You can get updated discs for it from Navteq but they're dear at around £100 a go. The biggest drawback with the original one is that you can't put postcodes in. There is/was a guy on ebay who reckoned to have the discs where you could put the first three digits in but I found it didn't work. That was a couple of years ago though. I seem to think you can only put postcodes in with DVD based OE units, not the CD based ones that were fitted to P38s. Stick with the Tom-Toms / Navmans. They're easier to use and have a much better display generally.

All the OE sat navs I have used have been useless here in France, they just do not have the new roads which appear every year. The sat nav thinks you are traveling across fields most of the time. They don't even have the old the old roads. My house is on a road thats been here for at least 400 years, it doesn't appear on Nissan or some other sat navs.. It is there on Garmin tho.

The P38 satnav shares some heritage with the E53 X5 - from the period in which BMW owned Land Rover - the CD based units are Mk3 units which are simple to swop directly for Mk4 units, which are DVD based. There are loads of non-OEM maps out there, not that I'm recommending one of course, which allow full postcode input. There are lots of X5 units available on ebay, far less come up for Rangies. I think though, that the original CARIN based satnav is not interchangeable with the later one shared with the X5, which I think is a BMW IBUS based unit. Worth checking it out, I would think. I thought of doing it years ago, bought the units, then decided on the Smartnav system which was entirely integrated in the car and a lot more functional and never out of date.....

mine works excellent considering it was made in 98,got me out of trouble a few times,its better with a updated disc i found