![]() Which doesn't help a lot, given that all I was really bothered about was several new housing developments in the Leeds area, the wierd one-way system in Bradford and getting to the UEA in Noriwch when my daughter goes there in 2012 (fingers crossed).ĭistraught (and have I ever been otherwise?) to find that they have sent me the 2010/11 disk which claims to use maps "up to date as of September 2009". I have lashed out the £150 for an updated disk and have received four, so that I can now navigate msyelf safely and in detail to the top of Norway, the toe of Italy or somewhere near Moscow. That's all well and good if you already have a £400 iPhone It's not completely perfect but it's a lot cheaper than £150, especially as I already had the TomTom app on the phone, and you get all the major advantages of the iPhone satnav combined with a big display, mostly. ![]() When the instructions don't match the screen at a new roundabout or something, follow the instructions.Īs the iPhone TomTom has HD traffic on it too I get the best of both worlds. That means you get the TomTom instructions, which are up to date, the map on the big screen which 95% of the time matches the instructions, and the RDS traffic displayed on the big screen. However, I keep the iPhone down in the centre console, feed the audio to the car, but have the Prius satnav map showing, without putting in a destination. What I do is run TomTom on my iPhone, as it outshines the internal satnav in almost every area. Well, just to put the cat in the melting pot, I also recently purchased a Gen2 Prius and it has a 2007 satnav DVD. I'm not sure, think it may vary in different parts of the world.Īnyway, it's clear Toyota thought it was cheaper to just update their hardware in 2012 to require license codes, than pay their lawyers to play whack-a-mole with eBay sellers.TomTom was so much better - £60pa got me four map updates, user map updates, traffic and cameras for a year. That makes it more complicated for the 2012+ owners to use eBay copies for updates.Īs for legality, there is little doubt that the eBay seller is liable to Toyota for copyright infringement (unless they somehow, legitimately, bought a bunch of the genuine disks at such an incredible discount they can sell them for less than a tenth of list and profit? hmm).Īs to whether you're breaking any law by buying their copy. It is only if you had the newer, 2012+ unit, that you would need to have the Toyota-generated license code, based on the update media serial number and your nav unit's unique ID, to be able to load the update. It is just as easy whether you bought an official one from the dealer (suggested price $169.95) or a cheaper copy from eBay. In 2012+ there are also 6.1 inch displays with nav, made by a different maker and how those are updated, I haven't looked into.Īccording to your profile, you have a 2010, so as expected, you were able to simply slip the DVD in the slot. The copy can take up to an hour, so there's likely a charge for shop time, even though most of the time it's just doing its own copy thing after the tech starts it off.īut this unit won't begin an update until given a license code obtained from a Toyota web site based on the dealer's DVD or USB key serial number and the unique id in your nav unit, so it's no longer as simple to just buy an eBay copy and pop it in. Since it gets copied, the dealership only needs one it just lives in their special-service-tools cabinet. In an update, it copies new map data from either a map DVD that you put in the (only) slot, or a USB key. ![]() The 2012+, 7 inch unit has just one slot, no changer, can play CDs and DVDs, and keeps the map data on an internal hard drive. The map DVD is physically in the slot at all times. It can't tell whether bought a real one at the dealer or a pirated one for $12.95. All you do to update the maps is put a new DVD in the slot. The 2010-11, 7 inch nav unit has a 4 CD changer and a separate map DVD slot. ![]() It changed mid-Gen 3, for the 2012 facelift.
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