Nav system
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Nav system
I bought a 2011 GS & I am trying to figure out the Nav system. Is it true that in order to program directions that it has to have certain zones in the system? Also that you have to buy from GM diff zones?
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Your car should have come with a complete manual on the NAV. Its fairly easy to use once you learn it. There are two NAV disks for the system, one west and one east. In order to input a destination, you'll see a zone map display which you select which zone its in first, then proceed to the street, address and so on. No, there are no extra zones needed to be purchased. The need for two disks is mostly for the POI's in the system as there are so many, they all can't reside on one disk. The dividing line is the Miss. river for the disks.
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The disks only run one at a time within the NAV. It runs inside of the DVD drive under the NAV screen. Eject it and you'll see which is in there and you should have another there in the car or with it for the other coast. A lot of people complain about the NAV being poor and so on, but personally speaking, I find it easy to use with a lot of nice capabilities. Certainly a whole lot better than a BMW NAV...what a joke there. I suppose that once you learn any NAV, then its easy from then on.
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Your car should have come with a complete manual on the NAV. Its fairly easy to use once you learn it. There are two NAV disks for the system, one west and one east. In order to input a destination, you'll see a zone map display which you select which zone its in first, then proceed to the street, address and so on. No, there are no extra zones needed to be purchased. The need for two disks is mostly for the POI's in the system as there are so many, they all can't reside on one disk. The dividing line is the Miss. river for the disks.
I do know the limitations of my Garmin though, as that's what I use instead of the factory NAV. No discs to mess with as I get free lifetime updates, 4 times a year off my computer.
EDIT: I just checked the 2011(year that the OP owns) http://www.chevrolet.com/assets/pdf/...nav_owners.pdf and on page 73 it shows the overlap between the east and west discs. I see I was mistaken about the newer cars having only one disc.
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Here's a link to a pdf version of the NAV manual
http://www.pdfking.com/2011-chevrole...system-manual/
http://www.pdfking.com/2011-chevrole...system-manual/
http://www.chevrolet.com/assets/pdf/...nav_owners.pdf
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As far as I know, its still two disks since 2007 or 2008. My first disk that came with my '07, manufactured Oct. '06, was a single disk. The next revision was two disks and I believe its been two disks ever since. The OP needs to know that only one can be loaded at a time and he hopefully received both. I will also add that since I live in the "West" disk area, yet travel to the "East" disk area several times, usually I have no issues with finding an address in the east area with a west disk. As I mentioned before, mostly its the POI information that's different or available.
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A member here, talon90, has created an excellent tutorial for the nav system; much easier to understand than the regular manual. You can do a search under his name and "tutorial".
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I think that the later models might just use one disc, but not 100% sure. My 09 factory NAV uses two discs. I also think that there is not a distinct dividing line for the East-West discs, but instead, there is a overlap in the central US. But again, I'm not 100% sure.
I do know the limitations of my Garmin though, as that's what I use instead of the factory NAV. No discs to mess with as I get free lifetime updates, 4 times a year off my computer.
EDIT: I just checked the 2011(year that the OP owns) http://www.chevrolet.com/assets/pdf/...nav_owners.pdf and on page 73 it shows the overlap between the east and west discs. I see I was mistaken about the newer cars having only one disc.
I do know the limitations of my Garmin though, as that's what I use instead of the factory NAV. No discs to mess with as I get free lifetime updates, 4 times a year off my computer.
EDIT: I just checked the 2011(year that the OP owns) http://www.chevrolet.com/assets/pdf/...nav_owners.pdf and on page 73 it shows the overlap between the east and west discs. I see I was mistaken about the newer cars having only one disc.
It will work in any C6 from 2005-2012 with the nav unit. They appear to have found a new method to store the data because there doesn't appear to be any less POI's available then my two disc 2011 version 7 DVD set and the 2012 disc is also much more up to date.
I have the new 2012 version 8 disc in my 2007 and it covers both the East and West on the one disc and works great without any problems.
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A quick word of clarification: The map discs don't get "loaded" to the system per se; there is no hard drive. Instead, the disc for the part of the country that includes your destination remains in the DVD slot (the upper one) behind the screen. When using navigation, the system is constantly reading the map data from the DVD. In most cases, you'll just insert the DVD for the region in which you live and leave it in.
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Cool about them now using the DL DVD's. I now have to wonder if my '07 DVD drive will read the DL disks or not? I'm guessing it will but will check the nav disc web site and find out.
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I just checked the old version 2 disc that came with my 2007 car when new and that also was just one dual layer disc back then.
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Excellent! I saw there is a 2012 release now available too on the website for them www.gmnavdisc.com
Yes I ordered the new 2012 version from them back in October of last year and have been using it for over 3 months and it works great. Glad to see we are back to just one disc for the total map coverage.
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We have the new single-disc 2012 version in our 2009. Haven't used it a lot yet, but it does seem to do significantly better when entering a destination business by phone number. On the old discs, it only worked about 50% of the time, other 50% it would gray out the digits before finishing the number. Now, it seems to be good about 80% of the time.
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The new 2012 Version 8 update maps are now back to one dual layer DVD.
It will work in any C6 from 2005-2012 with the nav unit. They appear to have found a new method to store the data because there doesn't appear to be any less POI's available then my two disc 2011 version 7 DVD set and the 2012 disc is also much more up to date.
I have the new 2012 version 8 disc in my 2007 and it covers both the East and West on the one disc and works great without any problems.
It will work in any C6 from 2005-2012 with the nav unit. They appear to have found a new method to store the data because there doesn't appear to be any less POI's available then my two disc 2011 version 7 DVD set and the 2012 disc is also much more up to date.
I have the new 2012 version 8 disc in my 2007 and it covers both the East and West on the one disc and works great without any problems.