SAT NAV DISC's Expensive!!!

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Picked up my new car; and the inbuilt sat nav reads no disc. The documents i have with the car - the original cd/dvd jewel case is present but no disc
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Garage don’t have a copy, previous owner has no recollection of the disc. Just emailed my local Nissan dealer – they want £116.00 + vat for a disc!!!!

The bay of E is similar prices :eek:

What a rip off !!! PFFFT
 
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The problem with Sat Nav disks are the licences involved, its not the actual car companies that are ripping you off its the actual OS licences etc...

Stelly
 
Stelly said:
The problem with Sat Nav disks are the licences involved, its not the actual car companies that are ripping you off its the actual OS licences etc...
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I think it's both. When you can be an entire sat-nav app for your phone for £50 then the licenses have to cost a lot less than that. Have you ever known a car manufacturer to sell any accessory for a reasonable amount?
 
The Nissan system may have additional copy protection that prevents copied disks being used the old MFD2 VW system had this and no one found a way round it so the disks were never available to download. The VW factory disks were dirt cheap on ebay if you bought them one version behind.
 
OK, backup a bit here.
Who here owns a Tom Tom or similar?
After your initial free updates are finished - what is the yearly charge for new maps?
Somewhere in the region of £50 - £60?

So why should it be any different for in-car Sat-Nav's?

Somebody still has to pay to get the roads updated and in turn that information is licensed out the manufacturer of the sat-nav system.

If the OP had his original disk then upgrading to the latest version would have cost around £50 - £60 at most (certainly the case with my Skoda unit).

As for pirating the updates - justify it as much as you like.
It's no different to stealing any other software.
If you're happy stealing software then that is your call - personally I'm not.
 
I agree, or the garage doing it - had it almost happen to me until I told them I wouldnt buy the car without the disc - then it suddenly turned up (post the "we'll get you one for £50)!!

If they advertised the car with a working sat nav I would press on the false advertising - as without the disc its not working!!
 
BMW ones are chuffing expensive too. Funny how friends with M5s have them still on the original DVD - too cheap to get a new one :D.


Actually this reminds me... I think I've still got our E60 on a late 2009/early 2010 one. Need to get the 2011 Professional DVD. I like to get the bare DVD though and then add in the speed cameras myself, as that way I keep them far more up-to date :).
 
Back in 2008 Pioneer wanted £250 for the latest dvd map discs, just looked now and i can get the latest CNDV-100MT media for £41.

Not bad!
 
Will Gill said:
just to clarify, I own the BMW 2011 professional disc, I use the pirate sites to download the same image with the FOC POI info added, this isn't available as a cost option its added by enthusiasts, not sure if that's legal, not sure I care but I do own the original image surely if I want to make copies of that for my own use thats my business?
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Where'd you buy the 2011 Professional disc from? All BMW put on the website is "Price on request" :mad:.


Looking on eBay there's someone selling all three legit 2011 Professional DVDs for £128.00 (or will add in the POI for £30)... but I wonder if the dealers would sell you just the one region disc you want for cheaper...


Re the POI: I've sent our E60 in for servicing to the main-dealers with the modded DVD in it, and speed camera icons showing on the iDrive screen. Not a word was mentioned about it :) (though thinking about it the un-modded DVD was in the glovebox if they wanted to go looking).
 
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Westyfield2 said:
Re the POI: I've sent out E60 in for servicing to the main-dealers with the modded DVD in it, and speed camera icons showing on the iDrive screen. Not a word was mentioned about it :) (though thinking about it the un-modded DVD was in the glovebox if they wanted to go looking).
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Did you expect them to say something? :confused:
 
[TW]Fox;18226585 said:
Surely the dealer must pay for this if they advertised the car with nav?
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This is the Nissan 350z I did a post on it last week, there was no advert the car had litterally come in that morning - he did not even know the mileage let alone have time to advetise :(
 
Westyfield2 said:
Where'd you buy the 2011 Professional disc from? All BMW put on the website is "Price on request" :mad:.


Looking on eBay there's someone selling all three legit 2011 Professional DVDs for £128.00 (or will add in the POI for £30)... but I wonder if the dealers would sell you just the one region disc you want for cheaper...


Re the POI: I've sent out E60 in for servicing to the main-dealers with the modded DVD in it, and speed camera icons showing on the iDrive screen. Not a word was mentioned about it :) (though thinking about it the un-modded DVD was in the glovebox if they wanted to go looking).
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I purchased it with my recent service, was £165 including an idrive upgrade

as you say it comes on 3 dvd's, I didn't bother asking if I could purchase an individual disc
 
Westyfield2 said:
Re the POI: I've sent our E60 in for servicing to the main-dealers with the modded DVD in it, and speed camera icons showing on the iDrive screen. Not a word was mentioned about it :) (though thinking about it the un-modded DVD was in the glovebox if they wanted to go looking).
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I've always left mine in the car and I doubt very much whether anyone one would notice the speed camera icons. You can add the speed cameras yourself with a little technical knowhow but I just can't be bothered to add speed cameras and pay for them to be put on.
 
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