Recently I sold my outdated 97' Merc S500 I bought new ($50K in repairs over the years. Glad to see it go) and decided to buy an 04' S-type base V6.

I have owned the car for a month and had issues with the throtte body (replaced with a new one) updated the crappy ford speakers to JL, replaced the lower intake seals, PCV valve and line, spark plugs, IMT rings, new brakes and rotors all around, front sway bar bushings, rear sway bar links, and will still need to replace several ball joints and rear tie rods.

After all of this I still LOVE the car and I am not concerned about the cost to bring this car back to what it should be.

The styling of this car is truly exceptional.

Last week I purchased a the Nav unit and CD player, and have been told I need to re-wire the entire car in order to have Nav. Which I'm fine with.

Before the Merc I had several Audi models and would rebuild them as a hobby. (late 70's - 80's 5000 turbo models. Pain in the *** by the way)

So I do have a question that hopefully a veteran S-type Jag owner could answer - Do I need anything else to make it work? Somone said I need the Nav player in the trunk, others say I also need a some sort of GPS antenna, and others tell me I am just crazy for even thinking about it.

Any sugestions?, or reasonable parts resources in the States? Local salvage yards in Atlanta keep telling me to buy a Garmen. This car is driven daily and I do not want to deal with wires hanging down all over the place.

To me it just looks sloppy or maybe I am OCD.

 

Welcome to this friendly Forum.
I'd suggest posting the last bit of your intro here
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to get the right guys on the case.
You'll find lots of useful stuff in the how-to section.
Here's your Regional section also
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Welcome to the forum kapoist,

Good to have you with us.
Follow Steve's advice and ask about the nav in the tech section.
Enjoy the forum.

If you haven't done so already you should add your car details to your signature to help others to help you.

 

Welcome to the forum kapoist,

That's some repair list for the first month!

Follow Steve's link to the S-Type section for help, advice and information.

Hope you soon have all the issues resolved.

Enjoy the forum.

Graham

 

welcome aboard Kapoist, good to have you here with us here at JF

Nice intro, thanks for sharing.

The only thing missing is a pic or two??

Any useful information you may need such as how to post pictures, edit signatures, add videos, use the search facility etc, can be found here
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Check out the regional section for your area?
There are lots of members local to you with the same interests.
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