Thread: Disco 4 Navigation System

It has taken a few years to learn how to use it, but the NAV in my MY13 D4 is still useful for finding older addresses and major towns on a trip. We often find it indicating that we are driving across open paddocks where a highway has been improved. We find the NAV useful if often inaccurate (and clunky) and have been warned off upgrading the maps due to the LR price and potential for the updates to be still out of date. An android phone mounted on the dash provides a (free) second opinion in the newer areas. I find that it also keeps SWMBO harmlessly occupied while I'm driving.

Originally Posted by Macadamia

There are however companies that make small android units that will replace the nav unit entirely and offer the ability to use apple carplay and android auto. These plug into the existing display where the nav would, sound is handled by the existing display, the same way it is for navigation currently so it wouldn't matter what speaker setup you have.

EDIT: I should clarify the nav unit is a separate self contained box that plugs into the display. that's what you're replacing, not the display and it's integrated computer
NAVIPLUS. COM.AU. is based out in Maroondah and import such units.

I know of someone who bought an Apple CarPlay/Android Auto unit online from the UK supplier and DIY installed. It is not that cheap but does get good reviews and seems reliable. It just clips in the existing LR harness with various matching plugs/sockets without removing any of the existing LR hardware. Below the D4 unit (2011-15) but there are other units for other models as well. They also have step by step videos on YouTube on how to install.
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It is activated exactly the same as Macadamia expalined above - through the Nav button. You lose the standard LR klunky navigation system but then get any of Apple/Google/Waze applications in its place which are updated continually for free and include traffic guidance as well, so a no brainer for me.
Remember you can also download maps to your device (prior to travelling) if you are travelling ouside of Cell coverage (well for Google anyway, not sure about Apple).

Originally Posted by Netorius

I know of someone who bought an Apple CarPlay/Android Auto unit online from the UK supplier and DIY installed. It is not that cheap but does get good reviews and seems reliable. It just clips in the existing LR harness with various matching plugs/sockets without removing any of the existing LR hardware. Below the D4 unit (2011-15) but there are other units for other models as well. They also have step by step videos on YouTube on how to install.
Unique Auto Developments
It is activated exactly the same as Macadamia expalined above - through the Nav button. You lose the standard LR klunky navigation system but then get any of Apple/Google/Waze applications in its place which are updated continually for free and include traffic guidance as well, so a no brainer for me.
Remember you can also download maps to your device (prior to travelling) if you are travelling ouside of Cell coverage (well for Google anyway, not sure about Apple).

If it’s like mine then you don’t lose the original Nav. The nav button cycles though original nav, CarPlay, video input and around again.

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Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

If it’s like mine then you don’t lose the original Nav. The nav button cycles though original nav, CarPlay, video input and around again.

DJ - does your system have the same 15 second delay after starting mentioned above?