Help! Navigation is lost
02-22-2008, 03:37 PM
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I searched around but couldn't find a good answer.
My Navigation is off course and it thinks that North is South. I stopped by the dealer. He took out the DVD and told me that if that doesn't fix it, I'll have to leave it with them.
Since you guys are soooooo much smarter about these cars than the dealer, I figured it couldn't hurt to see if anyone had a fix for this, perhaps a resettting or a re-booting of the Nav system.
Thanks,
Rick
My Navigation is off course and it thinks that North is South. I stopped by the dealer. He took out the DVD and told me that if that doesn't fix it, I'll have to leave it with them.
Since you guys are soooooo much smarter about these cars than the dealer, I figured it couldn't hurt to see if anyone had a fix for this, perhaps a resettting or a re-booting of the Nav system.
Thanks,
Rick
02-22-2008, 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by rickyf' post='534721' date='Feb 23 2008, 02:37 AM
I searched around but couldn't find a good answer.
My Navigation is off course and it thinks that North is South. I stopped by the dealer. He took out the DVD and told me that if that doesn't fix it, I'll have to leave it with them.
Since you guys are soooooo much smarter about these cars than the dealer, I figured it couldn't hurt to see if anyone had a fix for this, perhaps a resettting or a re-booting of the Nav system.
Thanks,
Rick
My Navigation is off course and it thinks that North is South. I stopped by the dealer. He took out the DVD and told me that if that doesn't fix it, I'll have to leave it with them.
Since you guys are soooooo much smarter about these cars than the dealer, I figured it couldn't hurt to see if anyone had a fix for this, perhaps a resettting or a re-booting of the Nav system.
Thanks,
Rick
It seems like the Gyro-Sensor has failed, part# 4 here, but you have to try resetting 2-3 times the unit with Mute and 2 eject buttons simultaneously (Alt-Ctrl-Del) and see what happens.
02-22-2008, 04:09 PM
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Read the following thread and any links to other threads it contains to see it that'll help you out...
http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=49489
http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=49489
02-22-2008, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Rudy' post='534738' date='Feb 22 2008, 05:09 PM
Read the following thread and any links to other threads it contains to see it that'll help you out...
http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=49489
http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=49489
Rick
02-22-2008, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Rudy' post='534738' date='Feb 22 2008, 05:09 PM
Read the following thread and any links to other threads it contains to see it that'll help you out...
http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=49489
http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=49489
I guess I'll have to leave it at the dealer.
Thanks for the help.
02-22-2008, 07:28 PM
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Try using a paper map. They worked fine for many years. If that fails, you may always revert to celestial navigation. Now that is a lost art!
02-22-2008, 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by MidnightRider' post='534787' date='Feb 22 2008, 08:28 PM
Try using a paper map. They worked fine for many years. If that fails, you may always revert to celestial navigation. Now that is a lost art!
02-22-2008, 10:11 PM
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i remember in my prevous japanese cars, i had the rear view mirror with a compass and sometimes it would get confused... i think it was because of magnatic interferance..
on those cars you had two options to reconfigure it.
either drive around until it fixed it self, (few hours)
or
press the reset button and drive in a circle in an empty parking lot a couple of times...
you can try going to and empty parking and trying driving around in circles perhaps you get lucky and the compass gets grip..
on those cars you had two options to reconfigure it.
either drive around until it fixed it self, (few hours)
or
press the reset button and drive in a circle in an empty parking lot a couple of times...
you can try going to and empty parking and trying driving around in circles perhaps you get lucky and the compass gets grip..
02-23-2008, 12:08 AM
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Originally Posted by madoon' post='534852' date='Feb 23 2008, 08:11 AM
you can try going to and empty parking and trying driving around in circles perhaps you get lucky and the compass gets grip..
are you sure you're not holding your car upside down?
You need to reset the country configuration, yours is probably in Pole-mode
just kidding, it sounds like some hardware failure to me. The other things (reset) indeed just fixes being off and start to re-learn. Your's seems to start on the wrong foot.
02-23-2008, 09:16 AM
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Was I supposed to be driving with the wheels on the ground? Why didn't it say so in the manual? Those crazy Germans think we're supposed to know everything!