Retrofitting Navi into your caR?

 

Absolutely

 

AWESOME! You get the kit from Martin?

 

Ha Ha yeah. He hooked me up with everything. Very helpful guy

 

I'm glad I bought the car with navi. It's gonna take a lot of work but props to you for tackling this project.

 

I knew I should have bought mine with Navi, oh well...

Enjoy Zobo!

 

Damn! Props to you for sure, I'm glad the navi is standard in the Type-S haha

How much is the kit, and how hard is it to install? Did you buy the car planning on doing the nav yourself to save some money, or didn't you plan on wanting a nav when you bought it?

 

goood luck....take some pix while ur doing the install

 

The kit was 1800 for everything I needed including the voice command. As for the car, I got a pretty good deal at the time for it. It only had 37000 miles on it and I got it for 16000. It was too hard to pass up so I got it without nav. I knew I could do the nav because i have had about 4 years experience doing car audio installs. We'll see how it goes

 

Will do!

 

 

it should almost be plug and play with that harness! good luck! Who is this martin fellow?

 

Martin is this guy on ebay who sells the complete kit for our cars, wires, subscreen, steering wheel buttons and all. He is the best option out there in my opinion

Oh, and Mods, my bad not putting this thread in here to begin with

 

Good luck. What DVD version did you get? Hopefully you got the latest one. Oh and if you wanted to swap the bulbs to LEDs, now would be the perfect time since you would have to take everything apart again if one of the lights blew.

 

Good idea! I'll do that as well. As for the DVD version it's a 3.40 is what it says. I'm pretty sure there are updated versions so I'll look into that as well.

 

Should be a fun project... Good Luck and keep us posted...

 

Is the 3.70 navigation DVD the newest version for the 04-06 models?

 

3.8 is the most current version as of November 2008. I'm on 3.4, I think, and my database release date is September 2004.

 

I'm intrigued to do something like this too. Do a lot of people do this upgrade? If so, is there a DYI for it? How much would the dealer charge for something like this?

 

Dealer gonna rape you and yes theres quite a few DIY on here, just search through google and add acurazine at the end of what u wanna search for.

 

I'll look into it but I don't know if I can justify spending $1800 on a navi..... decisions!

 

I'm very interested in this project! Good luck! I'm looking forward to your complete installation photos!

 

btw, is this Martin's ebay link?
http://cgi.ebay.ca/04-08-Acura-TL-OE...3A1|240%3A1318

 

that's martin link, hes a pretty good guy. I'd recommend him!

 

goodluck! i didnt even see this thread before making a new thread. i was actually considering just doing aftermarket navi, but the good touchscreen ones are almost as much as the oem navi. definently take pics!


i really wanna try this out, but it seems soooo hard to do

 

I will be taking photos... unless I ruin my car

I don't think it'll be bad at all. I do have experience though

 

Do you have to splice wires with Martin's kit? I remember reading tutorials before where people spliced wires together or hacked up a wire harness or something.

 

No hacking involved (per se) What needs to be done though is a repinning of several harnesses. The wires come ready to be pinned. I'll take pictures and post them later.

 

Here is what I was talking about. The wires have the metal clips installed already. All that needs to be done is to open up the harness and plug them into the correct spaces. Pin locations were included with the kit to make it easier.

 

^^WOW....that is pretty much walking you through it rt there! NICE...g' luck witht he install

 

Thank you!

 

Damn..I'm really considering buying this kit. Can't wait for the install pics.

 

that harness is what makes that kit so much ... ehhh i'm still not sold on spending 500

 

Well... it's done and it wasn't too bad at all! Things that I did: Nav, nav hack (ok button, wallpaper, and trip computer mods) cabin filter, isimple, short shifter. It took about 4 hours with 2 and a half people. Everything turned out really well here are some pics of the project. Enjoy













Cabin filter




Short shifter install






HA HA HA. Suggestive theme!

 

awesome congrats on the job well done.....

enjoy your nav and many other additions.......

 

Only thing left to do is change your signature! Looks good.

 

Thank you! It was fun!

Ha ha. Yeah, i'll do that tomorrow. Thank you

 

Congrats on the project!! I can't wait to do this.. maybe by the end of the year I will have the money to buy this kit.. I too got a great deal on my car and couldnt pass it up so I got non navi.. not a deal as good as yours tho, dang you got your car cheap!!!