Thread: Updating Garmin Nav

If you are sick of pulling the dash apart to update the Garmin Nav, I have a work around.

Purchase a mini USB extension lead. I bought 1.5m long as I did not know where I would need to run it, but you really only need 1m at the most. Mine cost $3.05 posted from e-bay.

Pull the dashboard apart for the final time. Disconnect the USB from the back of the Garmin and feed it to the left into the glovebox. Connect the extension to the Garmin and also feed into the glovebox. Reassemble the dash, leaving the connection in the glovebox.

Next time an update is required, as long as you have a laptop and wireless access to the internet, open the glovebox, connect the computer to the extension USB and update the nav system. Simples NO?

So easy, Land Rover should have done it. At the very least, they should replace all the clips that have become loose from repeated pulling apart of the dash causing rattles.

Originally Posted by maddia

If you are sick of pulling the dash apart to update the Garmin Nav, I have a work around.

Purchase a mini USB extension lead. I bought 1.5m long as I did not know where I would need to run it, but you really only need 1m at the most. Mine cost $3.05 posted from e-bay.

Pull the dashboard apart for the final time. Disconnect the USB from the back of the Garmin and feed it to the left into the glovebox. Connect the extension to the Garmin and also feed into the glovebox. Reassemble the dash, leaving the connection in the glovebox.

Next time an update is required, as long as you have a laptop and wireless access to the internet, open the glovebox, connect the computer to the extension USB and update the nav system. Simples NO?

So easy, Land Rover should have done it. At the very least, they should replace all the clips that have become loose from repeated pulling apart of the dash causing rattles.

I thought of doing this but like newbee says the Garmin unit is as useful as a handbrake on a canoe. It advised me to go the wrong way around a roundabout a couple of weeks back