Lo all,
Long time lurker first time poster. I have had my Mo for about 3 months now. I am a long time user of the old Alpine Navigation system in my Camaro. Alpine makes a top notch Nav system IMHO. Anyways, I researched SUV's and decided to get a Mo once my wife and I drove it. It met all the critical attributes that we had agreed on. At the dealer I asked specifically about Navigation. Lo and behold the wonderful (sarcasm) dealer stated that they could install the Nav system retroactively. With that I said I'll take it. So they wrote up an IOU and about a week passed before I got back to them. Come to find out that Nissan took the route of not allowing a HU replacement. This in my opinion and from what I have read here is completely unacceptable - but there was nothing I could do. A couple before us had also asked for an upgrage also. The dealer was gonna send us to a local stereo installer and install a pioneer Nav system as they had just done that for the earlier couple. Unfortunately during the install of the earlier couples Nav system the installer discovered the unthinkable. They ended up mounting a seperate screen on top of the dash with all the glory of the wires showing on the opposite side. I put a halt on my install and have researched this issue since. What a nightmare. So I have come to two solutions:
1. Get the Magellan Roadtrip 700 and use it. Heard both good and bad. From what I was able to demo it is pretty good for a portable solution but not near as nice as the installed Nav system I have had in my Camaro since 97.
2. Get the Alpine Nav-200 (5.8" screen inc with DVD nav system) and either soft install the screen (make it movable to where I can place the screen in front of the radio display) and hard install the Nav base.
OR
3. Move the HVAC/Radio display to somewhere else (Maybe where the vanity mirror is on the sunvisor) and put the 5.8" screen there.
/Rant I cannot fathom the reasoning behind why a car company would integrate two COMPLETELY different systems on on PCB board. It makes no sense to me whatsoever. /Rant
My question for those of you reading this is what do you think the benifit of each idea is and what pitfalls you can think of? I would appreciate any replies I recieve. Thanks for your time.
Long time lurker first time poster. I have had my Mo for about 3 months now. I am a long time user of the old Alpine Navigation system in my Camaro. Alpine makes a top notch Nav system IMHO. Anyways, I researched SUV's and decided to get a Mo once my wife and I drove it. It met all the critical attributes that we had agreed on. At the dealer I asked specifically about Navigation. Lo and behold the wonderful (sarcasm) dealer stated that they could install the Nav system retroactively. With that I said I'll take it. So they wrote up an IOU and about a week passed before I got back to them. Come to find out that Nissan took the route of not allowing a HU replacement. This in my opinion and from what I have read here is completely unacceptable - but there was nothing I could do. A couple before us had also asked for an upgrage also. The dealer was gonna send us to a local stereo installer and install a pioneer Nav system as they had just done that for the earlier couple. Unfortunately during the install of the earlier couples Nav system the installer discovered the unthinkable. They ended up mounting a seperate screen on top of the dash with all the glory of the wires showing on the opposite side. I put a halt on my install and have researched this issue since. What a nightmare. So I have come to two solutions:
1. Get the Magellan Roadtrip 700 and use it. Heard both good and bad. From what I was able to demo it is pretty good for a portable solution but not near as nice as the installed Nav system I have had in my Camaro since 97.
2. Get the Alpine Nav-200 (5.8" screen inc with DVD nav system) and either soft install the screen (make it movable to where I can place the screen in front of the radio display) and hard install the Nav base.
OR
3. Move the HVAC/Radio display to somewhere else (Maybe where the vanity mirror is on the sunvisor) and put the 5.8" screen there.
/Rant I cannot fathom the reasoning behind why a car company would integrate two COMPLETELY different systems on on PCB board. It makes no sense to me whatsoever. /Rant
My question for those of you reading this is what do you think the benifit of each idea is and what pitfalls you can think of? I would appreciate any replies I recieve. Thanks for your time.