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Old 09-29-2016, 11:11 AM
oldskewel oldskewel is offline
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Probably no help from me here, but ...

I have a '01, build date 6/01, with the Nav screen, etc.

When I first got the car 2 years ago, I looked into the aux/bluetooth option (of course) and concluded that:

1. Be very wary of the array of possible solutions presented to you - it matters A LOT exactly when your car was made. Something easy for a slightly newer car may be an engineering project for you, depending on your build date.

2. For me, it was going to be an expensive engineering project that I did not need, so I basically punted and got a cassette adapter. The aux cable comes out of the cassette thing, folded behind the nav screen. 6-cd changer in the back still works.

3. If I were ever going to do something on my car (unlikely) it would probably involve an Office-Space-style beatdown of the Nav system.

Wondering - why do people want to keep the NAV? I find it to be absolutely useless, and a bit of a hassle that I have to press two buttons every time I drive to shut the thing down. Is it that getting rid of the NAV will cause other problems with the car? Because I can live without the fuel consumption calculations, etc. And the GPS navigation interface is painful to use to the point of being painfully useless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8
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