I am curious if the factory screen could have the touchscreen film added to work with a carputer. Has anyone done this on a G35?

 

it is not possible.

 

My next install will be with the factory mounting hardware but modifying it to support a touchscreen VGA LCD (ie a Xenarc or Lilliput)

Problem is procuring a source for the factory mount

 

But you do not plan on interfacing the aftermarket touchscreen VGA with the stock NAV unit, correct?

 

Bummer. Foiled again! Sigh....

 

Nope, no stock NAV
All computer

 

Sweet, let us know how it goes, sounds ambitious!

 

It's actually possible, but not at all cost effective for a single unit. There are companies like cybertouch that can make them to whatever spec you want, just keep in mind you will need to know exactly what you need and will also need a hammer to crack that piggy bank! Single unit production isn't cheap. This may be a good business idea for god_of_cpu though, maybe another product to add.

 

It would be great to add a puter and not need a new screen. Is it feasible to replace the factory screen and maintain the OE nav?

 

that would be awesome

 

No- you have to keep the stock screen in order to use the stock NAV. Otherwise you'd have to hack the proprietary connection going into the OE screen in order to create some sort of conversion into the aftermarket USB-PC-based touchscreen. I hate saying it, but it's pretty much impossible.

Currently (and barring someone doing the impossible as stated above), your only options are:

1. Replacing stock screen with aftermarket screen. This buys you being able to input virtually any video source (be in PC, DVD, whatever). Downside: you lose your stock navigation system.

2. Keep stock screen and add an aftermarket "aux video input" device. There is one that is popular on here called like TVandNAV2GO or something like that. It basically adds an aux. video input jack (RCA) to your stock screen. This buys you the ability to hook an external video source to your stock screen, which means you keep your stock nav. system. The downside is that PCs look like trash on this setup, as you have to convert the VGA plug/signal to an RCA plug/signal. If you have ever hooked up a PC to a TV, you know what I'm talking about. Now picture the same quality but shrunk down to 7" screen. I haven't seen/tried it personally, but I would imagine that text would be horrible.

 

It's not impossible, just not at all cost effective ...and the quality won't be the same. ...and the stock gps on our g's isn't that great at all compared to what you can get for a pc. In my opinion, CoPilot software is way better than our oem. Plain and simple....What you really need to do is get a new screen or and additional screen to mount somewhere else.

 

I know this was an old topic, but just curious to see if there have been any advancements in this development? I hate the enter button on my stock nav, I rarely get it right.

 

^^LOL grave digger..