Car came with nav, but no SD card. Replacements?

[raadsel]

Hello. Does the GPS warns you about heavy traffic ahead or car accidents and recalculate the route? I've had my cmax a couple weeks and haven't been able to make this work.... Or I don't know if it's possible.

 

Btw, in planning to buy the updates SD card to have the most recent version of the maps, but that's useless if it doesn't let you know what's ahead in the road

 

If the car came with Navigation, you need to have SiriusXM Traffic activated. If you have the subscription activated, it will come up and warn you of traffic incidents and give you the option of recalculating your route.

 

If you bought your C-Max used, you likely can get a free trial (I believe 2 months) by signing up at SiriusXM, after which you will need to make sure you have a subscription to the Traffic service. You can buy a Traffic subscription without needing to be subscribed to the radio service.

Edited August 15, 2015 by raadsel

[N7VY]

There is a way to get nav into the mytouch. My car didn't come with nav but I added it through a company called oemautopartsco .com. It's not as expensive as the factory price. When I ordered the system they asked for the VIN and it came two days later. Unbolt the touch screen and two screws to undo the APIM and switch it out. Takes less than 10 minutes. The GPSantenna was already installed so it was plug and play.

[mitrals]

There is a way to get nav into the mytouch. My car didn't come with nav but I added it through a company called oemautopartsco .com. It's not as expensive as the factory price. When I ordered the system they asked for the VIN and it came two days later. Unbolt the touch screen and two screws to undo the APIM and switch it out. Takes less than 10 minutes. The GPSantenna was already installed so it was plug and play.

 

The best way is to go to car-part.com and look for screen for the CMAX. It usually comes with the APIM. Call around, ask the vin number and based on the vin confirm the car has navigation. Then buy the sd card from ebay. Shouldnt cost over $200

[ls973800]

The best way is to go to car-part.com and look for screen for the CMAX. It usually comes with the APIM. Call around, ask the vin number and based on the vin confirm the car has navigation. Then buy the sd card from ebay. Shouldnt cost over $200

 

Have you actually done this?  Having belonged to several Ford forums over the last 10  years or more, people have always asked if this could be done, but no one had ever done it.  I believe there are other factors involved from reading those other forums, and it is NOT as simple as a plug and play like you describe.  Great if it worked as easy as you say it does, but I really doubt it unless someone can say they did it.

 

Can you also show some of the search results with a price of $200.00 or so for the screen, the APIM, and the navigation card?  I think you will be more in the $500.00-$1000.00 range for those three items by the time you are done. 

[Kelleytoons]

I tend to agree with your assessment for this simple reason: I asked the dealership if we could add Nav to one of the other cars we were looking at, no matter the cost, and THEY researched and said it was not possible.  That leads me to believe that either it has to be done at the factory OR the cost is so prohibitive that the dealership can't even do it and charge extra to make money off of it.

 

If the parts were really around $200 even at third party prices, that means the dealership could get them for even less and charge even $500 for the install -- we would have easily paid $1k to have it on one of the other cars (as it was we found a car that had it so we didn't have to look further).

 

But I'd be curious to hear from someone who has done it (I might need to see pictures of before, during and after, though -- just that kind of Missouri guy, I guess :>).

[ls973800]

I tend to agree with your assessment for this simple reason: I asked the dealership if we could add Nav to one of the other cars we were looking at, no matter the cost, and THEY researched and said it was not possible.  That leads me to believe that either it has to be done at the factory OR the cost is so prohibitive that the dealership can't even do it and charge extra to make money off of it.

 

If the parts were really around $200 even at third party prices, that means the dealership could get them for even less and charge even $500 for the install -- we would have easily paid $1k to have it on one of the other cars (as it was we found a car that had it so we didn't have to look further).

 

But I'd be curious to hear from someone who has done it (I might need to see pictures of before, during and after, though -- just that kind of Missouri guy, I guess :>).

 

 

Here is someone on the Fusion Hybrid forum who has added the navigation for around $500.00!  More to it than just plug and play, but at least it appears it can be done.

 

http://www.fordfusionenergiforum.com/topic/3777-navigation-added-to-my-system-today/

[jdbob]

I tend to agree with your assessment for this simple reason: I asked the dealership if we could add Nav to one of the other cars we were looking at, no matter the cost, and THEY researched and said it was not possible.  That leads me to believe that either it has to be done at the factory OR the cost is so prohibitive that the dealership can't even do it and charge extra to make money off of it.

 

If the parts were really around $200 even at third party prices, that means the dealership could get them for even less and charge even $500 for the install -- we would have easily paid $1k to have it on one of the other cars (as it was we found a car that had it so we didn't have to look further).

 

But I'd be curious to hear from someone who has done it (I might need to see pictures of before, during and after, though -- just that kind of Missouri guy, I guess :>).

 

Ford has no financial incentive to allow a dealer to bypass their cash-cow.

 

An APIM with navigation enabled and one with it disabled probably isn't too different from one another. It could be some extra bit of hardware, or even just software settings that can only be accessed when it is opened up. In the earthquake monitoring systems I work with there is a connection internally that can be connected to a PC to access information only of use to engineers. That sort of setup could also be used to change a few bits to enable navigation.

 

What would be expected is that someone got a hold of two APIM's, one with navigation enabled, and one with it disabled, and compared the two and found what the difference is. Just your basic hacking.

[mitrals]

Here is what I did: http://fordcmaxenergiforum.com/topic/3994-upgraded-to-nav-and-it-is-almost-working-100/

 

it does work.

 

Look for tv screen and then 8" display.

Here are some results: http://www.car-part.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?userSearch=int&userPID=1000&userLocation=USA&userIMS=&userInterchange=%3EAFB&userSide=&userDate=2013&userDate2=2013&dbModel=27.51.1.1&userModel=Ford%20C-Max&dbPart=594.1&userPart=TV%20Screen%20%28see%20also%20Radio%20or%20Heater%2FAC%20Control%29&sessionID=200000000000000000881661867&userPreference=grade&userIntSelect=270828&userUID=0&userBroker=&iKey=&userPage=5

 

It has also been done on a Ford Escape: http://www.fordescape.org/forum/diy-garage/41362-successful-nav-upgrade-my-2013-fe-se.html

 

Edit 2: Took a picture of my Energi with Nav: https://goo.gl/photos/4SkXuadqv8eCGZ4u5

Edited January 14, 2016 by mitrals