(For those with Avants, three are in the side window, one on If your car has the diversityĪntenna system, there are 4 FM antennas in the rear window of yourĬar. The highest AM reception channel on the NAV+ is 1602, doh!.īesides that small mishap, I'd still pay up to $2000 for this as a factory option.īut I recently read something in the AudiNav Yahoo! group that explains this.Įverybody is having trouble with the antennas all of the sudden.įirst off, for those that don't know. Not only is the AM reception in intervals of 9 instead of 10 (i.e., you can get stations 927, 1503, 810 instead of 930, and 1500), but on the way to Tahoe the traffic reports come in on station 1610. The other problem I have with the radio is AM reception. Instead of having to plug into both connectors of the 3G iPod, it only needs to interface with the docking port. I am going to install the densionusa iPod car kit in the future, but I was just recently at MacWorld and they announced a new car kit to be released in 6 weeks. The only thing my NAV+ has for music is a radio. The UI for the NAV+ could use some improvements, but it works. We'll see.īut otherwise, I think the NAV+ is great. I may go that route eventually and would most likely upgrade the instrument cluster as well (maybe S4?). I don't have the TMC can-bus module, so I don't have the turn by turn directions in the instrument cluster. I would've paid for this as a factory option if I could. I wish the GPS would show banks/atms or at least an easy way to find them, but maybe there's a way to hack the CD to do so. You can select a restaurant by location or if you know the address. The NAV+ is able to find directions to restaurants, but I wish that it had better menu options to select a restaurant by name or category. Its nearly impossible to program a direction while moving, so don't try, you'll cause an accident. Selecting destinations is not the easiest thing in the world, but it works. Sometimes it can be a little stupid, but then again its certainly better than looking at a print out from mapquest or yahoo! maps. It will automatically recalculate your destination direction if you make a wrong turn. Operation: The NAV+ is definitely very useful. As soon as I figured this out, I went on a 15 minute drive because that's how long it takes to read and load the new firmware. Turns out, all I needed to do was start the car. I nearly shat in my pants for about two hours waiting for it to move a little bit on the progress bar, but it didn't. But upon loading, it never moved an inch. I had the engine off when I was doing the install, and the system recognized the disk and started to erase the firmware. The other problem I ran into was when I was updating the firmware on the NAV+. Apparently, the wire tap that I used did not break enough of the GALA signal wire to make contact. I actually had to put the problem down and come back to it a week later, and the problem I had was related to a GALA signal. Problems: So the biggest difficult, I had was trying to figure out why tracking wasn't working. Just be patient, don't rush, and follow the instructions and its easy. I think if I had to do the install, I could do it in half the time. The install is pretty straight forward, but definitely a pain. Namely, because I'm **** about wiring, so I took the time to use bullet connectors and labelled EVERYTHING. It took me about 10 hours to complete all the wiring work. Installation: No one else around me had first hand experience with the install, so this was sort of a DIYer. ![]() wiring and connectors, and shipping, I paid about $1200.įor those looking to do the install, you will still need a VAG-COM and the maps disks. So i suppose the mystery of these poorly engineered antenna boosters continues.Price: Cost will vary from person to person, but for the headunit, the GPS antenna, and misc. I did a bit of investigating myself and tore off the rubber cover to find that there were almost no electrical components contained within the cover and i couldnt' see what the crack had ruptured (if anything). The worst part is that they are around $300 new (i got mine from manguyen for $100, thanks!). I've heard of multiple attempts to try and fix these boosters and not a single success story. If you see a crack, then you need to replace the antenna booster. Now it's as simple as inspecting the black rubber cap for cracks, that you see covering the majority of the green circuit board. Pull off the back portion of your ceiling hard (it'll sound like you're breaking clips as you pull even though you are not). Its easy enough just to check your antenna booser to diagnose if your poor reception is due to the booster. This doesn't really need a DIY because it's simple but for those people that have poor radio reception and don't know why, hopefully this helps them out a bit.
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