Thread: Discovery 1 in dash Nexus 7

Time to do a proper update of sorts for those of you who are not members of the Australian Land Rover group on Facebook.

My Nexus 7 dashboard is complete and 100% functional!

Once it was all installed and working I very quickly came to the conclusion that it is the best head unit I believe to be possible.

It is easy to use, customisable, fast, versatile and pretty damn cool, if I do say so myself














The only issue I had once it was installed was the battery draining if I didn't drive for more than about 30 minutes once every fortnight or so. By my calculations the battery should last a solid 6 weeks if left in 'sleep' mode.

I pulled the dash out a week or so after fitting it to modify the firmware and force it to turn back on when power is applied regardless of the state of the battery. You can have it turn back on without access to the physical buttons anyway by just driving for a few minuted then restarting the car. Im just too lazy

I don't think I will be able to live with a regular head unit now
Fortunately the dash is easily removed and shifted into any other Discovery 1 or 2.

I will post pictures later today of a Discovery 1 Double Din conversion I am currently working on too

And here is my double DIN work in progress

Great work guys .

How did you route the USB cable without taking up loads of space?

Want to build one for a D2? You could start selling these. I'd have one that's for sure. By the way very nice work.

Cheers

Chris

It's a shame they have stopped the nexus 7 production now.

Hi mate,

How did you go with the double din dash?

I want to upgrade my stereo and was looking at a double din.

Thanks

Neale

P.S. You need to clear your inbox

This looks very nice.
Would you consider making a 3d scan of this so that the less handy of us can get a 3d print of it. I'm currently converting a hard dash rrc to soft and this would be an epic addition.

Thanks,
Ian