is it possible to hardwire tomtom one

ttwarren · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 29, 2006 Posts: 2

hi first time ive used this forum does anyone know of a kit to charge tom tom permanantly while in car without using the cig lighter socket and is this safe to do so or will it damage tom tom would like to have it only charging when ignition on thanks to anyone who can help

zogman · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject:

brodit do a mount like what you want, costs about £40...or you can plug the tomtom car charger plug into a car charger extension lead and hard wire the extension lead...
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ttwarren · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 29, 2006 Posts: 2

just looked at the brodit kit but only want a cable cig lighter ext is ok but was hopeing to make a tidy and hidden job of it as tomtom will fit in centre console for most of the time (and works fine )

zogman · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject:

if you leave it in the car all the time it might be tempting to a thief...
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Andy_P · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:41 pm Post subject:

I have connected an in-line cigarette socket adapter into a spare fuse (you could just splice into the wiring for your existing cigarette lighter socket) and plugged the original TT car charger into that. The whole thing is velcro-ed behind the dash.

Whatever you do, do not try to wire directly from the car wiring to a DC plug on the TomTom, as the cig. lighter adapter reduces the car's 12 Volts down to 5 Volts for the TT.

12 Volts up the TT=instant death (to the TomTom!).

smig · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 28, 2006 Posts: 2

This is how I did mine on my old Celica

http://www.celica-club.info/wiki/index.php/Guide_to_hardwiring_Sat_Nav_G7

pkerr · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 11

Sweet!!!

zogman · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject:

thats a very neat job smig, i've done something similar with my navara..
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Andy_P · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject:

Yup, that's basically what I did too (although I wired my socket back to a spare fuse in the fusebox).
Then I made a custom mount too... (Pics here)

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