I wonder what he did with the battery. Doesn’t look like it’s still attached (I would think it would just use the car battery after this hack). It would definitely be a good idea not to leave the battery in since lithium ion batteries don’t like heat so much.

mental note to myself: when creating the opening for a speaker … either try to find something to mount over the opening you create, like the cover for a tweeter, or print out something that you can then tape down on the surface and use a pattern for the hole spacing–free-hand looks pretty lousy :^P

Pretty cool. I may attempt something similar to rid myself of that terrible suction cup mount. Is GPS satellite reception an issue with the unit mounted near the floor and oriented like that?

@36Chambers:

Who looks for stuff to steal inside a 1991 Suzuki Sidekick? I’d be afraid of finding piles of cheeseburger wrappers and crap and move onto a better target.

@Ryan,

I’m guessing that the thieves are just betting that the GPS has been stowed in the glove box if they see the suction-cup mount; I wouldn’t be surprised if that pans out half the time.

Putting it right below where the handle to the handbrake makes it doubly hard to use being as you have to look completely away from the road and look around the handbrake to both see and use it. nice hack otherwise though

I dont use it for looking at streets… I use the voice guidance to help me pinpoint where i need to get off the freeway. I live in central washington. nobody will steal it, because it’s pretty well hidden under my ebrake. not to mention the fact that I JB welded it to the console….

Where can I fund speedometer calibration tool?

I have a chinese no-name PNA navigation and I receive it with a broken USB connector, it charges up but not connects to the pc, It’s time to fix it, thanks for the pos :)

That’s really cool :)

I’ve got a Garmin Nuvi and now I know what’s inside one. Fitting it into my car would be a fun exercise but I’m a tad bothered someone might break in to steal it.