Ten minutes from the golden-triangle villas, an older dashboard stops being a reason to live without proper navigation and calls. We retrofit Apple CarPlay and Android Auto three honest ways — a new head unit, an interface module hidden behind the factory screen, or a wireless adapter — with the factory look preserved and the steering-wheel controls and cameras kept working. Send the model and year on WhatsApp: the right route and its price come back the same day.
Every retrofit starts with the same decision, and it belongs to the car, not the catalogue. Older interiors usually want a new head unit — the old radio replaced entirely, cleanly, sized to the dash. Premium dashboards that shouldn't be touched get an interface module instead: it hides behind the factory screen and puts CarPlay and Android Auto on the original display, invisibly. And a car that already has wired CarPlay only needs a wireless adapter to lose the cable.
Which of the three fits your car is a model-and-year question, answered the same day: send both on WhatsApp and the honest route — with its price — comes back before you drive anywhere.
“The dashboards I open around Almancil are the ones nobody is allowed to scratch — that's exactly why the module goes behind the factory screen and the trim comes off without a single broken clip. If you can tell I was in there, I wasn't finished.”
The old radio replaced entirely — the clean route for older dashboards, sized to the dash.
CarPlay and Android Auto on the original display — the premium dashboard stays untouched.
Loses the cable on cars that already have wired CarPlay.
Final scope and price are confirmed at inspection — these are honest public anchors, not teaser rates.
The fear with any retrofit is a dashboard that looks interfered with — and in the cars parked around Almancil, that fear is expensive. Our standard is factory look: trim comes off without broken clips, wiring is loomed and hidden, and the finished installation reads as if the car left the factory this way. Dashboards come apart in our hands every week for interior work; the retrofit rides on that same experience.
Function survives with the look: steering-wheel controls keep working, the reversing camera and parking sensors stay on screen — or finally get added while the dashboard is open — the microphone sits where callers can actually hear you, and the sound is tuned before handover instead of left on defaults.
The electronics work happens at the JustCars workshop in Loulé (Área Empresarial) — the building that reads CAN buses and codes batteries for a living. From Almancil that's not your problem: free pickup within 15 km covers Almancil, Quinta do Lago, Vale do Lobo, Vilamoura and Quarteira, so the car can leave your villa in the morning and come back with CarPlay in the evening.
Most installations fit within a day; the timing for your specific car is confirmed together with the route, once we have the model and year — not promised blind. The car is insured while it's with us, at either address.
That's the standard we fit to: trim off without broken clips, wiring loomed and hidden, and on premium dashboards an interface behind the factory screen so the original display does the work. If you can tell someone was in there, the job isn't finished.
At the JustCars workshop in Loulé (Área Empresarial), our electronics building. Free pickup within 15 km covers Almancil, Quinta do Lago, Vale do Lobo, Vilamoura and Quarteira — the car leaves in the morning and most installations fit within a day.
Send the model and year on WhatsApp — the right route (head unit, interface or wireless adapter) and its price come back the same day, before you commit to anything.
Car + what you need on WhatsApp — real options with real numbers.
