Leon SatNav and aftermarket replacements

[Obee72]

Looked like a replacement unit to me.


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[dw911]

Well guys, I have a solution for you all. Kenwood (garmin) vw golf discovery (non pro) retrofit!

Spoken to kenwood and it works in the Leon, no more ****ing arround with the ***** at seat in regards to paying £130 every 8-12 months.

I'd be very surprised if this displayed all the Seat specific screens you see on the Nav unit as it is and if it worked with the MFD. Just saying .....

Thinking about it, as the brains of the unit are in the unit in the glove box and the screen is just that an Alpine touch screen to see and access the date in the glove box unit
All kenwood need to do is add any extras people want like tom tom sat nav etc into the new screen allow it to interface it with the seat glovebox unit
And hey presto us seat owners have an aftermarket solution, with all the functions of the old screen, heating controls,car settings etc, plus a better new improved sat nav without having to pay for stupidly high map update prices

Charles the tog, have you a link to it or any idea when it's coming to market?

 

[DEAN0]

Thinking about it, as the brains of the unit are in the unit in the glove box and the screen is just that an Alpine touch screen to see and access the date in the glove box unit
All kenwood need to do is add any extras people want like tom tom sat nav etc into the new screen allow it to interface it with the seat glovebox unit
And hey presto us seat owners have an aftermarket solution, with all the functions of the old screen, heating controls,car settings etc, plus a better new improved sat nav without having to pay for stupidly high map update prices

Charles the tog, have you a link to it or any idea when it's coming to market?

Video for it here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCKdvx1i-jQ

unit details here - http://www.advanced-incar.co.uk/vw-garmin-nav-upgrade-for-composition-media

£559

 

[Obee72]

Wouldn't get around the poor resolution of the existing unit though. For that money I'd want a full replacement.


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[Obee72]

Can't see the point of this in a Leon that already has Nav. You'd spend less over three years to get map updates from Seat. It absolutely makes sense in a Golf or Polo that doesn't already have Nav.

Best result for us Leon/Tech Pack owners would be to be able to upgrade to the High spec unit offered now. Now if they could offer that for £500/600 then I'd be sorely tempted as the current unit is very slow with poor resolution.

 

[Ocularis]

I saw in Evo an advert for a Kenwood DNX525DAB which seemed to be a replacement system. Not sure if it would do all the car menus and stuff like driver profiles, but looks pretty nice.

 

[Obee72]

Doubtful and it looks bigger to me so possibly some kind of dash conversion required.


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[dw911]

I saw in Evo an advert for a Kenwood DNX525DAB which seemed to be a replacement system. Not sure if it would do all the car menus and stuff like driver profiles, but looks pretty nice.

Doubtful and it looks bigger to me so possibly some kind of dash conversion required.

Can't see any reason why all the menus and stuff like driver profiles won't work as normal as its only an add on unit, between the screen and the brain unit in the glove box.
Much like having a sky box and a TV and then adding on a DVD player, the TV and sky box still work as before, the only difference is u can now play dvds

Plus it's unlikely vag would approve it, if you couldn't access the car menus etc with it

Personally I think they have missed a trick by using the old screen and not just giving you a better screen with higher resolution
As it stands im not sure it justifies the high price, although that's probably more down to the VAG at 50%

 

[Deleted member 98136]

I might be wrong but wouldn't you expect that they've got quite a large stock of the existing units in stock already, just waiting for installation into new build cars, could well run into the 1000s, they wouldn't want to write them off easily.

Apart from having some in stock as replacement units for the odd faulty one, I would presume a few 100 would suffice.