factory navi is only great for the overall clean look, price between a navi car and a non-navi car from what i was looking at most cars were about $300

Now if your were getting a TOMTOM or something unit. They run 100$, take things out and put things away type deal. But you can have it on any car. if you were to run a DD headunit, that should be roughly $600-1000, but that should overall better then a factory navi, but not the shealth-ness.

I didnt look for a navi car when i was shopping but i stumbled upon one for a good deal and so i took it. Never looked back because factory navi is great for those highway re-route and traffic jams since they are all random.

 

keep in mind that factory NAV has a few extra features that I'm not so sure you can have an after-market installed on: such as the fuel economy info, maintanence schedule, etc....

 

i looked thought all these threads but I couldnt find my answer, why is the 06 sedan nav different from the 05? I got a 05 and would love to get this 7.xx verson everyones talking about

 

^ nothing short of swapping out aleast the GPS brain will do.

you cant not just run a version 7 disc in your version 6 system.

 

What kind of Disc are you guys using to backup the DVD ROM. I used a DL +R and it reads disk error on the Nav?

 

^^ PM sent regarding change the bookmark type to DVD-ROM instead of leaving it at DVD-R DL.

Dave

 

Am in for that dvd! Ill put up 50 for the new version....will it work for me i have an 04 coupe

 

^pmed

 

I think that the DVD's used in the G35 need to be dual layered. If someone were to look around here, I remember several years ago someone wanted to use one of those "DVD Shrink" applications to allow it to fit on a normal DVD-R

I guess they didn't realize that the way they work on a movie is to just reduce the quality of the picture. Highly unlikey to work on a data dvd unless they can just drop data files for areas they don't go to.

 

That did it. I used img burn and updated my firmware on the dvd burner. Change the bookmark type and worked. Media was the cheap Dynex dvd + R DL.

Thanks..

 

just letting you know those cheap dynex or memerox media has a very high chance of coasters and very short shelf life.

 

I have been using them since 05 on my Pioneer Avic D1. Burnt fine on 1st try. The Inifiniti was the first one that I got the error message with. Change the book type and perfect copy.

The update is every year or so don't plan on keeping it more than a year.