Sat Nav MKIV Very Strange Question?

[brucemillar]

Well it was/is not inside the unit!!. But it did give me the opportunity to clean the laser with Isopropyl and my air line.

My madness is confirmed. I have somehow managed to completely lose a Genuine BMW Map Disc, that I had in the car and in my hands?

I needed this to prove my theory that copied discs cause errors and do not read correctly as well as cause the nav to freeze on the buttons.

I have also read that using hacked discs with Speed Camera's etc can cause the same issues.

I have now gone back to V25 Firmware with No TMC Maps and No Speed Camera's but still on copied discs. I shall update on my findings.

[Overboost]

Originally Posted by brucemillar

My madness is confirmed. I have somehow managed to completely lose a Genuine BMW Map Disc, that I had in the car and in my hands?

We call it a "senior moment" over here. Don't worry, I'm having more and more of them too..

[dkl]

Originally Posted by brucemillar

Well it was/is not inside the unit!!. But it did give me the opportunity to clean the laser with Isopropyl and my air line.

My madness is confirmed. I have somehow managed to completely lose a Genuine BMW Map Disc, that I had in the car and in my hands?

I needed this to prove my theory that copied discs cause errors and do not read correctly as well as cause the nav to freeze on the buttons.

I have also read that using hacked discs with Speed Camera's etc can cause the same issues.

I have now gone back to V25 Firmware with No TMC Maps and No Speed Camera's but still on copied discs. I shall update on my findings.

Copied discs does cause the slower readings and I can hear the laser pickup do "search" a lot more (I can hear this because the DVD drive sits just behind my right ear on my MCoupe). But even using OE Genuine BMW Map discs, the laser pickup unit eventually gave up and start giving me that "errors" and won't read it properly (had a couple of Genuine BMW Maps and both behaved the same). Had it repaired a few weeks ago and now working perfectly, but I hadn't tried a copy disc to see how well it reads it yet.