Removing navscreen - Replacement cover for dash recess?

[TJWookiee]

A previous owner of my '06 XC70 swapped out the head unit and since I can't get the navscreen to rise and the nav system is antiquated anyway, plus the center speaker was removed completely, I'm thinking it's time to just pull the whole thing and try closing up the space. I'm not having much luck searching for a way to replace the griille with whatever grille would have come with a model that didn't have the RTII display. Any help with a part number that will work?

[vtl]

There are a couple of Arduino sketches on github that can control RTI display.

I personally found that RTI to be under designed, since the display is oddly tilted, it is far away from the driver, gets a lot of sun light. My car didn't have one, but I got it second hand, replaced the display with Garmin GPS and then with Android smartphone. Android looked cool, but in real life was not very handy, mainly because it gets super hot in there and any consumer grade electronics simply overheats. You can't use navigation if it can't charge its battery because it's too hot. So went back with the stock, only added a central speaker this time.

Still have an odd shaped central speaker for RTI setup, if you are interested to pay shipping.

Actually, Garmin (nuvi 65lmt) worked fine. I'd live with that, but it smoked up in one of my offroad trips. The conversion for RTI frame was also not very hard.

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