E60 Retrofit of sat nav?
E60 Retrofit of sat nav?
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squeezebm

Original Poster:

2,319 posts

236 months

Friday 9th March 2012
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Hello

Mates going to have a look at a 06/56 plate 520d with "no nav" is it possible to have th nav retrofitted? thru the existing idrive? costs etc

cheers

Pickled Piper

6,452 posts

266 months

Friday 9th March 2012
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The nav is terrible. Is your mate sure he wants it?

Seriously, other than having a larger screen it is completely shown up by a £100 Tom Tom or Garmin.

pp

Guyr

2,546 posts

313 months

Friday 9th March 2012
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Pickled Piper said:
The nav is terrible. Is your mate sure he wants it?

Seriously, other than having a larger screen it is completely shown up by a £100 Tom Tom or Garmin.

pp
It only has a larger screen if it's the ProNav, BusinessNav has the smaller screen and doesn't show maps. I never understood why they even made a BusinessNav version, its only slightly cheaper than Pro and loses most of the functionality.


8Tech

2,221 posts

229 months

Saturday 10th March 2012
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The factory nav system is absolutely dire and although I have it in my X5, I still use a Tom Tom and a friend with an E60 with the nav uses his navi on his phone which is still better.
Forget the BMW system, its useless.

Welshbeef

49,633 posts

229 months

Sunday 11th March 2012
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You would need a complete new dash binacle...
Really not worth doing.

Buy a car with it in the first place.

I use my pro nav every day. Sure it's now 5.5 years out of date and te latest three series has a really good version likewise the LCI three series with the added Hard Drive and google maps etc.