Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

I use heated seats even in the summer.

Yeah, but... Scotland innit.

On another note, I want to get apple car/auto installed.
Current gen Volvo XC90, dealer is quoting about £400 I think to get it installed.
Is there a cheaper method that actually works? I see these kits you can buy on AliExpress for audi. But are they shady?
Or just pay the dealer?

That or get somebody to decode your CEM PIN and then use VDASH (Both cost... £150 + €192) but that's a whole other world - one that i'm currently exploring for my factory sub install. BOOM.

Thoroughly recommend Car Play. The audio quality is also 100 X better than over AUX or BT. Really brings the base audio system to life (presuming you don't have B&W ;))
Having switched to Pixel recently I'm actually looking at Android Auto being enabled on ours and asked the dealer 3 days ago for a quote. Currently have the work phone permanently plugged in and used purely as our car entertainment device / map driver.

Do you have 2 or 1 USB in the central console? You need 2 ideally, otherwise an upgrade is required. Don't just get Apple Car Play - get the 'Smart Phone Integration' package.
It's both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay for the same cost....

https://accessories.volvocars.com/en-gb/XC90(16-)/Accessories/Document/VCC-515715/2016

Electric heated windshields are great, no more frantically scraping ice at 6am.

Give me a scraper any day, I'm keeping my HUD thank you! (It's one or the other). Those tiny little wires really used to get on my tits when I had them on my Focus back in the 2000s.