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Morning all,

Has anyone suffered from this problem before:

I have the 16:9 Sat Nav. Everytime I take the key out and lock the car it loses all the settings - Time etc..

Also If i do not put the key in the ignition i do not have any power to the screen/cd changer or dvd for the sat nav disk.

I have checked all the fuses but to no avail..

Any ideas? I am assuming it does not have a constant power supply which i would have thought it needed?

Here's hopefully

Simon

Hi Simon  mine used to go blank or flicker  think it didnt shut down properly and then battery went flat  too unreliable took it out and replaced it , did you try a search on the forum im sure this will have been a topic many many times , good luck .. Colin..

Hi Colin,

thanks for the reply. Yep searched the forum and no luck!!

really really annoying!

I am tempted to rip it out but have seen thats not simple either!

How did you find it? was it expensive?

  When changed to IPhone 6 no connection ( bluetooth , music etc ) was missing some work related calls  so took it to an ICE installer  agreed on an Alpine head unit INE-W997D , AMP , 4 SPEAKERS and a small sub , it ended up expensive , but i love it , sounds amazing , + voice control for everything 

It seems like part of the system is losing one of the power lines. I know from doing a retrofit install on my E46, and fixing my current E53 screen that there's a rats nest of cabling here...

WDS says Fuse 75, 5A looks to be the power to the monitor - worth double checking. This connects to pin 7 on X18801 - see if that is hot.

Thereafter, I'd be looking for bad connectors and maybe damaged cables. A friendly who can swap monitors - even from an E46 or E53 (you don't have to fit it to the dash, just connect it) - might be helpful.