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Sedans Infiniti G35 Infiniti G35 Navigation System
203 messages, Last post on Oct 16, 2009 at 9:29 AM
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After leasing exclusively Lexus' automobiles since 1992 we decided to give the Infiniti G35X a try in great part due to the Navigation System and the Music Box. What a mistake that was! We've had the car about 6-7 weeks now and find the fact that most of the most important features to us don't work when the car is in motion an abomination. To make matters worse, the Music Box is much more dangerous to use when the car is in motion because in order to get a desired album, you have to scroll through every track of every album until you find the first track on the album you want to listen to. Or try to find a restaurant when you're on a long road trip (we always have 2 people in the car on long trips...so we are perfectly safe with the passenger operating the system)...the system will show you just 4 of potentially hundreds of nearby restaurants. No way you can see any others on the list unless you stop the car. What's even worse, the Nav System as programmed by ZenRin is incompetent and simply doesn't compare in ease of use or in the ability to find an address to our old portable Garmin Street Pilot. In fact, we've now taken to putting our Garmin in the Infiniti so that we have a competent Nav System with us. We are much more than unhappy--we're disgusted.
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Replying to: unhappy20 (Jul 21, 2008 3:48 pm) |
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Replying to: askalan (Jul 21, 2008 3:55 pm) 
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Replying to: 604doc (Jul 22, 2008 6:39 am) |
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Replying to: 604doc (Jul 22, 2008 6:39 am) Honda and the European mfgrs are not Alliance members nor do they support the SAE guideline. They do support a somewhat arbitrary measure of driving performance that they can't quite get to be accepted by anyone else, which is something of a liability for them. The hand held devices are not tied to a particular manufacturer and as such, don't face the same legal requirements as in-vehicle systems. The trade off is a tiny screen. As far as the updates, the Garmin maps update for the C-class systems is $70.
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Replying to: lilengineerboy (Aug 04, 2008 4:25 pm) I understand that the vehicle manufacturers are at the "mercy" of the 3rd party vendors for updating software, but car dealers pushing/lying about an option that is more than 2 years out of date without cracking a smile, gets under my skin. This is further PROOF that dealers can't be trusted! I know better, but this isn't a GEO Metro, it's an Infiniti. |
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Replying to: unhappy20 (Jul 21, 2008 3:48 pm) |
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Replying to: lilengineerboy (Aug 04, 2008 4:25 pm) |
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Does anyone know if the 09 navi behaves the same way? I would have passed on the navi for my 07, but I wanted the music box and hte back-up camera. Personally...when I had to keep re-loading my 5 choices (Or pull over on an 80mph highway)...I was more distracted than I could have ever been with a touch screen. Not to mention that I had a passenger and the car already has sensors in the seat to determine that. Massive oversight. The forced fresh-air function being my only other non MPG gripe though.
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Replying to: johninnj (Feb 19, 2009 8:42 am)
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