muddyoval

I find that the NAV "features" of the 88 in my Rover and the D3 in the car equally suck. The menu system sucks and advanced searches are painful, and usually useless information. I just upgraded my 88 to the 70 series software and the routing was still terrible. The Garmin 376C is going back in the cars- it was far easier to use and more accurate. Querty would be a HUGE improvement, but then again- all the other problems still make me lose faith in Pioneer's NAV products.

Everyone said it couldn't be done- it's not hard, you just have to be resourceful. "Dealer installed" Avic88 with touchscreen was a nightmare- they farmed it out to a hack shop- they stuck the touch screen right to the dash fascia with tape and screws. Wiring was hacked up- bad installation in every way. No shop would attempt it, most claimed "no way" to do it. The key- use a Lincoln LS dash plate and Ford Motorsport dash paint. The pics make the color look a little off, but in person it matches the dash perfectly. I used an adapter to keep the stock subs (use a 5V converter for the tur

The imgburn software (freeware) can tell you if yours is DL- great software. Turns out my burners on all my computers are not DL writers.

I have xmwx on a Garmin 376C and it rocks. The prices are misleading as they try to upsell the most expensive services- the "mariner" package for fisherman has a lot of good info and is a lot cheaper per month. The hardware to run XM wx on laptops etc for weather chasers is still big money- a solution that would work with existing popular NAV units is a no-brainer, but isn't as simple as just an RCA input kinda thing because it has to overlay over the NAV screen.