Navigation & Audio Navigation DVD update details
4th Gear
Joined: Feb 2005
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From: SoCal
Wow, exelent example! I am looking for an excuse to get the Nav...
Doug
Doug
Originally Posted by Eric_Rowland
It's not about the number of maps.
It's about:
1. The right map, when you need it.
Example - Driving back home from VA (to CA), I pulled off to get some food in West Virginia. The Nav got me back to the freeway (one of those funky 'exit but no entry' interchanges.)
2. An unemotional navigator.
Examples -
Without Nav:
Me: "Honey, do I turn left or right up here?"
Me: "Honey?"
Honey:
"I DON'T KNOW!"
Me: "Je$u$ Chri$t, you've got the map, don't you?"
With Nav: (including British voice hack)
Me: "Which way do I turn?" (thinking to myself)
Nav: "In one-quarter mile, turn left to join the motorway"
Honey: "That's SO cool"
The Nav also never tells you what you SHOULD have done, it tells you what you NEED TO DO.
Example:
Honey: "You should have turned left back there."
Me: "That's nice, what do I do now?"
Honey: "You should have turned left back there."
Me: "I appreciate that, but I need to know what to do now, not what I should have done back there."
Best of all, even if it DOES get you lost, you have a common enemy instead of a point of contention.
Nav - $1700
Map - Free
A passenger at peace and not on the warpath - priceless
It's about:
1. The right map, when you need it.
Example - Driving back home from VA (to CA), I pulled off to get some food in West Virginia. The Nav got me back to the freeway (one of those funky 'exit but no entry' interchanges.)
2. An unemotional navigator.
Examples -
Without Nav:
Me: "Honey, do I turn left or right up here?"
Me: "Honey?"
Honey:
"I DON'T KNOW!" Me: "Je$u$ Chri$t, you've got the map, don't you?"
With Nav: (including British voice hack)
Me: "Which way do I turn?" (thinking to myself)
Nav: "In one-quarter mile, turn left to join the motorway"
Honey: "That's SO cool"
The Nav also never tells you what you SHOULD have done, it tells you what you NEED TO DO.
Example:
Honey: "You should have turned left back there."
Me: "That's nice, what do I do now?"
Honey: "You should have turned left back there."
Me: "I appreciate that, but I need to know what to do now, not what I should have done back there."
Best of all, even if it DOES get you lost, you have a common enemy instead of a point of contention.
Nav - $1700
Map - Free
A passenger at peace and not on the warpath - priceless
3rd Gear
Joined: Aug 2004
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From: Fled Cali for Vegas
Optimind - I picked up my 05 with Nav in Oct as well, but have a 2004 DVD. You might try arguing that point with Mini Customer Service. That you didn't even get the current one when your car arrived...
Neutral
Joined: Mar 2005
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From: Eastern NC
I'm a little late to this thread but I have the NAV system and didn't realize the disc was that old. My problem with the NAV is it doesn't talk, by the time I realized this the dealership was closed and i had to head home which is 5 hours from said dealership. I still haven't been able to take it in yet to get fixed. I guess I should move that up the list soon, maybe I can bargin for a new DVD while I"m in there... (right)
4th Gear
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From: SoCal
Now, with a factory nav like this... how do you even know the maker with continue to put out updates? How many years will they continue to put out updates?
Doug
Doug
Originally Posted by optimind
It will most likely be a 2005-1 since it would be released during the first have of the year. Or knowing how mini has done things in the past they will label it 2005-2 or maybe even 2006-1 to make it last longer and then not upgrade it again until 2007 or even 2008.:smile:
6th Gear
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: Orange County, CA
Originally Posted by optimind
Does anybody else have a 2004 dvd like MacGuruTX? I was told by both mini and the navtech that 2003-2 was the latest dvd for the mini....
However, the MINI (and probably the BMW) 2005-2 nav DVD will soon be available (cough, cough) and so there's no real need to try and chase down the BMW one at this point.
3rd Gear
Joined: Jun 2003
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From: St Pete Beach, FL
Not to worry!
Originally Posted by CapWKidd
Now, with a factory nav like this... how do you even know the maker with continue to put out updates? How many years will they continue to put out updates?
Doug
Doug
Vendor & Moderator :: MINI Camera and Video & c3 club forum
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Did you have to request it or was it sent automatically?
Originally Posted by dkstone
I got my car 01/31/03 with the cd unit and sometime last year I received a new cd from navteck free of charge, Navtek said then that one free update was included with the sale.
4th Gear
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No I did not request it, the reason I called them after receiving it was because I had bought the full set from them and wanted to know why only a single cd, that when I was told the the free one time upgrade came with the unit, and that i wuld have to purhase the other cds if I wanted an upgrade, of course I still have the old set and my money.
Originally Posted by OctaneGuy
Did you have to request it or was it sent automatically?
6th Gear
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There is a BIG difference between DVD nav and CD nav. DVD nav can hold more info therefore more streets and way points are visible. On a CD Nav it is limited to 700 megabites i believe while a DVD can go up 8 gig if used on a double sided disc.
4th Gear
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From: Apex, NC
Originally Posted by rg
I wouldn't worry about that. The company that produces these DVDs is NavTech. They are, at least it seems, pretty much the industry standard here in the US. They are also responsible for the content at MapQuest.com. Not likely they'll be going out of business any time soon.
Originally Posted by urgo
I too received an unsolicited CD update sometime last year for my '02 CD Nav. Could policy of free update gone south with the DVD edition? 
I purchased a a full US+Canada set. The price for a complete set of 8 CDs was like $20 more than the price of the single disk I needed for a trip. You DVD people have it good, getting all of North America on the one disk
Has anyone heard about the new CD updates? -- Tom
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1st Gear
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I called navteq today to check if the 2005 disk was still coming out this month and now it seems to have moved to the beginning of April. But the thing is that Navteq said that the updated disc will only be available at the dealer not through navteq themselves.... Anybody here anything similiar?
2nd Gear
Joined: Dec 2004
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From: Charlotte, NC
No nav audio fix?
Originally Posted by MerrieMini
I'm a little late to this thread but I have the NAV system and didn't realize the disc was that old. My problem with the NAV is it doesn't talk, by the time I realized this the dealership was closed and i had to head home which is 5 hours from said dealership. I still haven't been able to take it in yet to get fixed. I guess I should move that up the list soon, maybe I can bargin for a new DVD while I"m in there... (right)
You can search around on NAM or on MINI2.com and find out how to check. (pull down driver side knee bolster and reach around behind radio)
Good luck!
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1st Gear
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Not sure if I should feel good or bad about because nobody seems to know what is going on... But I just heard back from my mini dealer and they forwarded me an email that was from mini USA that said the first dvd update is FREE..... Not sure how we go about getting this free update though...