Sat Nav Question

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

Keith Willcocks - 06 Jan 2006 19:59 GMT

A friend has a much newer 406 than my old bus and he has the Sat Nav
installation (mine doesn't even have a compass or a sextant). Recently his
has developed an intermittent problem which is displayed as "Error reading
drive....". On computers this usually translates as "the disk is
knackered" or "the drive is knackered". He has tried substituting a known
good disk which again worked sometimes and gave the error on others.
Peugeot agent quoted £800 for a repair without actually looking at it. I
was wondering whether the CD ROM drive is, in fact, similar to that on a
computer and thus could be replaced with a standard unit. Also I would like
to know where it is housed on the car which is an estate model (I have not
seen it) and how easy is it both to get at and to repair/replace.

Any other advice would be welcome.

Signature

Keith Willcocks
(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)

Reply to this Message

Malc - 06 Jan 2006 21:59 GMT

>A friend has a much newer 406 than my old bus and he has the Sat Nav
>installation (mine doesn't even have a compass or a sextant). Recently
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>good disk which again worked sometimes and gave the error on others.
>Peugeot agent quoted £800 for a repair without actually looking at it.

Jeepers. You could buy a brand new system for that.

>I was wondering whether the CD ROM drive is, in fact, similar to that on a
>computer and thus could be replaced with a standard unit. Also I would
>like to know where it is housed on the car which is an estate model (I have
>not seen it) and how easy is it both to get at and to repair/replace.

Where ever he puts the disk in ;-)

Signature

Malc

"I want to be a utility fog when I grow up."

Reply to this Message

Nom - 09 Jan 2006 08:48 GMT

>> A friend has a much newer 406 than my old bus and he has the Sat Nav
>> installation (mine doesn't even have a compass or a sextant). Recently
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
> Jeepers. You could buy a brand new system for that.

Erm, exactly ! How else do you think they'll fix it :)

Reply to this Message

Brian - 07 Jan 2006 11:47 GMT

> A friend has a much newer 406 than my old bus and he has the Sat Nav
> installation (mine doesn't even have a compass or a sextant). Recently his
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>
> Any other advice would be welcome.

As with many CDROM drives, it is most likely that the lens on the laser is
dirty. The inside of cars is not the cleanest environment, so it would be
worth trying one of those lens cleaners you can buy. Otherwise you will have
to remove the unit, and take it apart to get at the lens to clean it
properly.
Of course, there are other possible causes.

Reply to this Message

G.T - 07 Jan 2006 14:08 GMT

Hi,

> As with many CDROM drives, it is most likely that the lens on the laser is
> dirty. The inside of cars is not the cleanest environment, so it would be
> Of course, there are other possible causes.

Could well be my favourite, too...

Regards,
G.T
205 Diesel & turbo-Diesel : www.205d.com

Reply to this Message

Dave G - 28 Jan 2006 21:49 GMT

Did your friend find an answer to this as I have exactly the same problem on
the 3rd replacement unit, all 3 have shown the same error messages.

The unit is located on the RHS behind a pull out panel as you open the boot.

Dave G

>A friend has a much newer 406 than my old bus and he has the Sat Nav
>installation (mine doesn't even have a compass or a sextant). Recently his
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>
>Any other advice would be welcome.

Reply to this Message