[John1150]

Hey guys,
Im from Brisbane, just thinking to get a satnav for my new Eos. I was thinking about it when I bought my car, but the salesman said, I need to pay more LCT if I purchase satnav with my Eos. After a couple weeks now, really love my Eos, but just felt like missing something, specially we I need to know where to go(just moved to brisbane), then i pull out my iphone, get to maps, then wait for 10s or so, it display the blue dot on the 3.5" screen, n i think thats very dangerous when im driving!
n it will be nice i got the map on the big screen.

So, back to satnav, anyone got one fitted in after they bought Eos? n how much did u cost? cos i called up pretty much all dealerships 3hrs from me, the best i could get is 3100 to be fitted, i think is pretty good(way better than where i bought my car at).

So, anyone could say something about their satnav unit? any info will help!

Thank You
John

 

[jeffkaz]

Hey John, Congrats with the new EOS. When I bought mine, I purchased it with the RNS-510 factory installed, and from memory it costs at little more than you have been quoted. Is it worth it??? Hard answer, as I don't believe any Sat-Nav is worth $3K +. But it is certainly the going price for any inbuilt Sat-Nav on any type of car.

Pluses
Nice big screen
Nice integration with the radio/media/bluetooth functions
Decent maps, with good navigation, and DVD quality voice etc
20Gb worth of storage for your music
Inbuilt, so looks better and difficult to steal, and you don't have to remove from windscreen when you leave the car.

Negatives
Bloody expensive
As with most inbuilt units, difficult (or impossible) to fully customise, ie can't add any POI's, or safety cameras. Boring menu system.. easy to use, but a little backwards compared to a Tomtom.

I too have an iPhone (as most of the free world does), and I find that I prefer to use it most of the time. Purchase a GPS package (Sygic - quite nice, or Navigator - prettier but not as flexible, Tomtom - if it ever turns up) on the iPhone and buy a car holder/charger (like carcomm ipod cradle CMIC-102), connect to your stereo via bluetooth or audio input, then you have a cheap, flexible phone/satnav/music functions that all work beautifully together.

Just my opinion, hope it helps

Jeff

 

[John1150]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the reply! I agree with u, I had a look on that Tomtom with iphone kit, its on sale in US n Europe, I think. Yeah, maybe I'll be waiting on that, n I assume it won't cost me more that $300. And yeah, looks like need to leave the sat nav for a while, n keep going with top down, never care about where Im goin!
Thanks anyway!

John

 

[geoffa1]

The AVC9000 I have seems to do pretty much everything the VW units does at a fraction (approx$1K) of the price.

Being effectively a micro computer in can run a range of software - mine came loaded with TomTom and Igo - although I am still trying to figure out how to update the mapping.

Main downside is reflection off the screen.

The guy in Melbourne who sells them is good to deal with - there are a number of chinese companies who sell these types of units, but the extra money spent on buying in Australia from someone who will back his product is worth it.

The units is plug and play - took me about an hour to put it in - even comes with a reversing camera - although I have installed that yet.

 

[TD5]

Hi folks, We have the standard media unit with the ipod connection, word of caution! If you use an iphone with the tomtom app 1.2 it will NOT charge the iphone as the app takes too much power. You can use the aux socket as it delivers more power but VW have to come to the party on this.

 

[silvershadow]

This topic has also been discussed on several threads in the Australian VWwatercooled forum with similar input to those above.

The only additional information from these discussions is the cost of purchasing the DVD updates - a price around $1000 has been quoted. The time delay between updates is another factor you should investigate.

The versatility, cost and frequency of updates for after-market units such as Tomtom and Navman makes it almost impossible to seriously consider OEM units unless a big screen is your sole deciding factor.

 

[jb747]

Perhaps, but nevertheless, I own three cars with in dash systems (two aftermarket Eclipse AVN6000 (basically the Toyota factory system)) and an R32 with the RNS510.

The RNS is a brilliant system, integrating everything, movies, maps, sound, bluetooth into one unit. It works, and it works very well. Is it cheap? No. But I find most of the aftermarket systems just look cheap and nasty, and I don't really want that in my car. I guess that if you just want a map, then buy a $20 street directory.

I'm about to order another VW, and it will be coming with an RNS510.

 

[Geoffw]

Radio Code

Hi I am about to change my 6 stacker for a Sat Nav I got from Hong Kong. Does anyone know where you can get your code from the old radio in case I have to re install it? I cant find it anywhere in the books or on the existing radio. Hope someone can help thanks

 

[Jake Bullit]

Just ordered one of these:

http://waywell.en.alibaba.com/produ...uan_touran_dvd.html?tracelog=cgsotherproduct4

There is a looooong thread on them here:

http://www.golfmkv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74855

 

[Geoffw]

I put my new after market realistic price Sat nav ($500) in works like a charm Maps are great, dvd great, Sound great, Phone great all working with controls I am going to put the reversing camera in shortly and the TV antenna. VW really let us down on parts and service I think.

 

[Geoffw]

My New After Market Sat Nav I put in works well no probs yet. Love it