A new spin on the age old "Adding Navigation" thread
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Ok so after doing some digging, and looking at a few FSMs, unless you want to whip out the wire cutters to get this to work correctly if your car is from 06-08 then the swap would be plug and play, 09-11 would again be plug and play. Taking an 08 -> 11 wouldn't play well with the other car.
Ergo, you need to get a Navi as close to the year of your car as possible. The other huge problem is the aluminum finish changed from 10-11. So for your car to look right if you have an 11 you would have to get a donor vehicle which is also an 11. At this point in time those are far and few between.
What it all boils down to - If you are buying the car new, and you want Nav, chose a car with Nav already in it. If you're buying a G25 then track down a 2011 G37 donor car.
Ergo, you need to get a Navi as close to the year of your car as possible. The other huge problem is the aluminum finish changed from 10-11. So for your car to look right if you have an 11 you would have to get a donor vehicle which is also an 11. At this point in time those are far and few between.
What it all boils down to - If you are buying the car new, and you want Nav, chose a car with Nav already in it. If you're buying a G25 then track down a 2011 G37 donor car.
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as for adding the gvn53 it's not difficult at all. someone over on g35driver.com has done it and there is a good thread there in the electronics section. for most people the gvn53 is an excellent alternative. i chose to go the carputer route which works best for me.
terrycs - i ended up using a small netbook pc with a 1ghz atom processor. i run garmin mobile PC and it works awesome. i added a USB touchscreen to my stock screen and it works like a charm. it's not high quality but it's very stealth.
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