Retrofitting kit to my 166

Hello Everyone. I'm off travelling around Europe from next February for a good chunk of the year in my 166. My car currently has no CD player or Sat Nav and I am thinking of changing this through this summer ready for my adventure next year.

I have a tape adapter for my MP3 player and it plays really well through the ICS but i am thinking of getting the CD autochanger fitted. Other than my concern over the price of getting the unit fitted (we all know how rediculous it costs for this specialised autochanger...) my only other question is does the Becker Silverstone play CD-Rs? Ideally I'd like to keep my original CDs at home and just use copies whilst on my travels.

With regard to Sat Nav, I know it would be a lot easier to buy an OTS unit from Tom Tom, Road Angel or Garmin, but I must admit to being quite excited about having GPS Sat Nav integrated into my ICS. Does anyone out there know how much a dealer would quote to retrofit it (just out of curiosity - am sure it's more than a small country's GDP!!) Also, what does the media cost (ie Mainland Europe and GB??). If the cost of the dealer doing it is crazy I would attempt it myself, however kit rarely appears on our old friend EBay...

Thanks for reading my ramblings - as always, any help is much appreciated.

Cluffstarr

Hi,
I have the 6 CD standard Becker in the boot and it plays CD-Rs just fine.
Don't have the GPS though so use a Garmin i3 which is brilliant for the money.
Maps for France etc are about £90 including VAT.
There are lots of threads on here regarding retro fitting CD players and GPS if you do a search.

Best Regards

just to contradict...

My CD changer is a bit hit and miss with CD-Rs. They will usually play as long as I'm not driving. Otherwise they skip quite badly. Some discs are better than others, but on a bumpy road they all skip eventually.

The Silverstone 2660 works just fine, if you can find one it comes
complete with the cabling to your ICS. If you are lucky you might
just find the cabling exsists in the boot of the car probably behind the battery.
I have retrofitted a SatNav from scratch the cost of this I kept to
£500 pounds compared to an alfa dealer quote of £2000 thats if you
could persuade one of them to take on the job.
You will need
1. The wiring loom (supplied by alfa at a cost of about £140.00)
2. eper online software for part numbers etc
3. Dte software for wiring diagrams for the Satnav to ICS.
4. As you do not appear to have the carrying case for both CD
changer and Satnav you will need one of these (refer to eper for
price.
5. If your car uses the G2 navsat technology then you need to search
out a Satnav on Ebay with code, you could also try breakers yards
and wait about 10 weeks for alfa to provide you with the code.
Finally you need about 8 horrible hours to to fit it.
Good luck !!

my 2660 is a bit hit or miss with cd-r's....seems much more prone to skipping with them than with "proper" CD's - i might try cleaning it though and see if that helps....

Wiring for the changer should be in the boot - proper alfa CD changers are quite hard to come by but they do appear every so often on ebay.

Good luck!