Thread: Buying a D4, what stereo is easiest to upgrade???

Originally Posted by Mutley

... Also, does anyone know about the maps upgrade for the older systems? My '09 D4 has the same maps it was sold with - at one stage I asked about it and apparently there was some fight between whereis and LR so no map updates were being offered. Is that still the case?

Cheers,
-Adam.

I know someone with a 2.7 litre D4 so I suppose its about your age ... he told me recently that Land Rover wanted something like $400 to upgrade his maps ... he said no because he thought it such a rip off. The problem is though, eventually it will get done so maybe its worthwhile? In Melbourne with a few freeways opened since 2009, an upgrade is worthwhile IMO.

Lexus and Toyota are much the same cost. All they do is swap a DVD. And charge close to $400 also. They claim they have to buy the DVD from the mapping company ... and Toyota's ones do not have off road maps in them.

So I guess, ask you dealer's service area, or ring around them ... my son has a Grande Camry V6 circa 2006. I upgraded its DVD for around $350. My intention was to remove his DVD, copy it (for back up purposes of course), and then put the back up one into his (i.e. back into my Camry Grande V6). Then take his original DVD to my wife's RX Lexus , and upgrade my wife's maps. Then remove her original map DVD, and swap it back into my son's Camry Grande V6 so he gets his original one back.

But I haven't bothered to do that yet, but boy, my wife's system is a pain on some East Link freeways. The voice says every 30 seconds, to obey the local restrictions that apply. It drives me crazy ... The Toyota programmers are trying to make drivers think that the computer reckons you are going at 100KMH along an uncompleted freeway. But in fact, the programming is there simply to get you to pay $400 for an up to date DVD. Otherwise you'd get the same message every 30 seconds when you are driving along a beach or a dirt road that is not on the Toyota mapping database ...

Originally Posted by Melbourne Park

I know someone with a 2.7 litre D4 so I suppose its about your age ... he told me recently that Land Rover wanted something like $400 to upgrade his maps ... he said no because he thought it such a rip off. The problem is though, eventually it will get done so maybe its worthwhile? In Melbourne with a few freeways opened since 2009, an upgrade is worthwhile IMO.

Lexus and Toyota are much the same cost. All they do is swap a DVD. And charge close to $400 also. They claim they have to buy the DVD from the mapping company ... and Toyota's ones do not have off road maps in them.

So I guess, ask you dealer's service area, or ring around them ... my son has a Grande Camry V6 circa 2006. I upgraded its DVD for around $350. My intention was to remove his DVD, copy it (for back up purposes of course), and then put the back up one into his (i.e. back into my Camry Grande V6). Then take his original DVD to my wife's RX Lexus , and upgrade my wife's maps. Then remove her original map DVD, and swap it back into my son's Camry Grande V6 so he gets his original one back.

But I haven't bothered to do that yet, but boy, my wife's system is a pain on some East Link freeways. The voice says every 30 seconds, to obey the local restrictions that apply. It drives me crazy ... The Toyota programmers are trying to make drivers think that the computer reckons you are going at 100KMH along an uncompleted freeway. But in fact, the programming is there simply to get you to pay $400 for an up to date DVD. Otherwise you'd get the same message every 30 seconds when you are driving along a beach or a dirt road that is not on the Toyota mapping database ...

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