All,

What has been your experience with the factory installed navigation unit? My first one never worked correctly, so a new one was installed approximately 2 months ago. The second one still does not work properly (the directions are useless) and I am thinking about asking for a refund. Any help on this one?

Kevin

 

I installed the nav radio about one year after I got my xfire and though the graphics aren't as good as say a 300C or Pacificas nav system it has always gotten me where I needed to go when I didn't know where i was going. Between the voice direction and the small graphics it shows its more than adequate. Now if you're looking for graphics that show gas stations or restaurants while you're driving you won't get them with this nav. You have to look them up separately with POI setting (points of interest). For my needs this nav works just fine. Hope this answered what you needed.

 

My wife has a Pacifica and I wasn't expecting anything like that (I think it is one of the best on the market). The one in my Crossfire is completely inaccurate with routes and if you go off route it does not recalculate. If I had to actually depend on it, I would still be driving around lost.

 

I have found the Navigation system to be quite effective and has helped me find some very out of the way addresses. I have not had any issue with it. I program the address and off it goes. I suppose the more sophisticated ones are nicer with more features, but I'm happy I don't have a big screen on my dash to take up space. For my money, the navigation system is fine.

I found the system easy to set up and I did not get lost.

As for your system. Maybe it's your disks not the system.

 

Do you know if the unit was installed at the factory or at the dealership? The reason I ask is the instructions that came with mine were completely backwards and if the dealership installed per these instructions it won't work. It took me several days between the parts guy printing me out proper schematics of the radio hookups and talking to Becker of North America that I was able to solve the puzzle. The sad thing is that the guy at Becker told me that Chrysler is aware that the instructions are wrong and hasn't done anything to correct them. But now mine works good and yours should recalculate if you go off your route.

 

My major complaint is that so many roads are not included - I seem to be "off-road" alot. However, it does show the direction that you need to go - as the bird fly's - which is a help but only if the system includes your destination. The POI's are very limited. Maybe Becker wasn't able to spend a lot of time in this part of KY. I've read on this forum that it's very expensive to buy replacement CD's and of course you still wouldn't know what has been added since your originals were issued. IMO it isn't worth the extra $1,200 sticker that Chrysler wants. My brother has a portable GPS that he paid less than $500 for about three years ago that has a map and is much more functional. Some of the better Chrysler Nav systems have a 20 gig hard-drive. Ours seems to depend on the two CDs. Of course my brother drives a Sky so what does he know.

 

Anyone know how to change the navigation system from Kilometers to miles?

 

Kilometers to miles. I forgot how I did it but I did, point being is it can be done just keep fidgeting. As far as installing it. I did my own install. My car is a 2004 and they did not come with nav. All I did was slide out the old, unplug it and plug in the new. plug in the GPS antenna and slide the radio back in. Takes about 5 minutes. Then open the side panel on the passenger dash and put the GPS antenna on the ledge on the top of the dash and you are done. I could do this to anyone's Crossfire in 10 minutes tops. Not sure what was back wards or how they could possibly screw it up.

 

How could you just plug and play without running the wires for the speed sensor or the reverse signal which are supplied with the radio for the installation. That's where the instructions are completely wrong for the hookups of these wires.