Anyone loaded a new navigation DVD that provides updated and all? Worth the 100?

 

Updating a navigation DVD is worth only if your data is more than 5 years old IMO. Unless you frequently travel in an area where there is rapid developments happening, I don't know how much use it has. Yes of course we all would like to see our home in the navigation screen . In this age of free navigation updates even with a portable nav unit (forget phones / waze), charging any amount for just data upgrade is simply outrageous. May be we should wait for the Tesla model X. I hear all upgrades, including motor / transmission / info tech, etc is free and happens wirelessly.

 

I upgraded the Nav on the wife's '12 TL mostly because there are changed/added roads in our area since the car was built, and the '15 DVD is the first one that picked them up. As far as future nav updates, I likely won't do it very often - perhaps every 5 years as someone else stated - unless I travel a lot and go to places I'm unfamiliar with. It's then that a regularly updated nav database would be beneficial....

 

Never kept the Volvos long enough to get more than one update; but I know the first was free...seems like they offered more(3 total?) at no charge.

I would be REALLY unhappy to pay for an update just to find out it wasn't particularly current OR a significant improvement. I guess that's what Sculldog is asking.

 

I updated my 11 MDX since it is our main traveling vehicle and we've gone coast-to-coast in the last 10 months. $100 is the cheapest it has gone for a new DVD disk in the +9 years being an Acura owner. With the new HD system, you can only purchase a new replacement disk from Acura Navi (no more used eBay disks). I like the feature you can input complete Navi info just by using the location's 10-digit phone number instead using state/city/street method. We all have AT&T iPhones and the wife has a Verizon iPhone from work we take also. We are pretty much covered 100% when traveling. I just ask Siri what is the phone number to Sam's Club in Jacksonville and input the 10 digits into the Navi; 15 seconds and done.

I only update whenever on my TSX and RDX since they are now just commuter vehicles (they use the old DVD drive system and you can purchase used disks on eBay).

 

That does sound like a nice improvement. Are there any other new features?

 

It might be a standard feature with hard-drive based Navi systems. I just never notice it being there before because I'm so use to putting in address the old/slow way. I know the phone number search is not part of my TSX and RDX DVD disk based systems.

 

We updated the nav on our '13 RDX in '14 and there were no appreciable changes. On Hwy. 24 between Fort Wayne and Toledo, it still showed us as plowing through corn fields at 70 mph. Plus westbound in E. St. Louis it sent us off on the wrong ramp into St. Louis even though construction was finished probably 18 months earlier. Once again, in Dallas Fort Worth it wanted to take us on entirely on the wrong path long after construction was finished.

Heck, even my TLX nav system kept wanting us to exit Hwy. 24 in Ohio several times to take the old road along the Maumee River. Scenic, sure, but we had places to be.

So I'm not wasting time on an upgrade for a while.