Golf R satnav query

[gareth h]

Some advice please, I am starting to look for a 2nd hand R, the VW salesman suggested that if the car didn't have satnav it could be retrofitted for £750 or a mod that allows the screen to link to your phone for £200.
My question: Does the £750 option effectively give OEM satnav, and does anybody have experience of the phone option?
Thanks
G

[anonymous-user]

I paid 500 and other than having to press media button it looks like it came from the factory.
http://www.sinclairvolkswagen.co.uk/aftersales/ken...

[gareth h]

Thanks, that saves me looking for a car that has satnav installed.

[va1o]

It's not quite as good as the factory system, doesn't fully integrate with the head unit and you won't get Nav instructions on the MFD screen between the dials. Suspect you'll find at resale one with proper factory Nav is more desirable and worth a little more.

[AJB88]

gareth h said:

Some advice please, I am starting to look for a 2nd hand R, the VW salesman suggested that if the car didn't have satnav it could be retrofitted for £750 or a mod that allows the screen to link to your phone for £200.
My question: Does the £750 option effectively give OEM satnav, and does anybody have experience of the phone option?
Thanks
G

The £200 upgrade sounds like the £150 Apple carplay/ Android Auto update that SEAT offer but you already need the MIB2 system to do that upgrade.

Be interesting to see what the £750 retrofit is as SEAT are adamant you cant retrofit MIB2 to a MIB1 car even though I have seen it done.

[SteBrown91]

AJB88 said:

The £200 upgrade sounds like the £150 Apple carplay/ Android Auto update that SEAT offer but you already need the MIB2 system to do that upgrade.

Be interesting to see what the £750 retrofit is as SEAT are adamant you cant retrofit MIB2 to a MIB1 car even though I have seen it done.

The 750 quid retrofit is the kenwood system as mentioned above. MIB2 can be retrofitted but not officially it needs some Hackery to work I believe so only unofficial channels will do it

[oldmanbm]

I have a new GTD estate with Sat Nav. A more useless system is hard to find. It can't find postcodes and misses the most basic place names, Thankfully the Car Net system allows Auto Android and Google maps - fantastic system and so accurate. The Car Net system can be retrospectively fitted and allows access to Car Play etc

[wigit]

Had pro nav and standard nav in Rs and hated for reasons quoted and it leaves you to the last minute at junctions and no where near as good in the BMW nav in my other car

Was going to retrofit the Kenwood on my rental R but went of the Car Play and have to admit this via the phone trounces it

[Adrian E]

car play with Apple is 10 times worse than the factory nav - it limits you to the Apple apps, so you can't use Waze or Google Maps, so completely pointless. Haven't tried my wife's Samsung to see if the Android version is less restrictive/crap.

I have the big screen nav and dynaudio tech pack in our Golf and I like it purely for the better media interface - the nav is fine for our use and with the hotspot set up you can have streetview etc which is mildly amusing, if you like that sort of thing.

[DanSkoda]

Android tend to allow alot more apps to work compared to Apple. When CarPlay first became available there was less than 10 Apple apps that were allowed compared to circa 25 Android ones.

[Alucidnation]

I very much doubt Apple and Google will ever be friends, hence the reason it wont be available on CarPlay.