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the price of sat nav on a e60 is a complete rip off, considering you never get the value back on resale and that you can buy a portable unit for less than ?200 surely these option have to drop
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Originally Posted by tonye60' post='238285' date='Feb 11 2006, 07:42 AM
the price of sat nav on a e60 is a complete rip off, considering you never get the value back on resale and that you can buy a portable unit for less than ?200 surely these option have to drop ![Unsure](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/unsure.gif)
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Originally Posted by tonye60' post='238285' date='Feb 11 2006, 02:42 AM
the price of sat nav on a e60 is a complete rip off, considering you never get the value back on resale and that you can buy a portable unit for less than ?200 surely these option have to drop ![Unsure](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/unsure.gif)
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Originally Posted by tonye60' post='238285' date='Feb 11 2006, 07:42 AM
the price of sat nav on a e60 is a complete rip off, considering you never get the value back on resale and that you can buy a portable unit for less than ?200 surely these option have to drop ![Unsure](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/unsure.gif)
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Originally Posted by browellm' post='238650' date='Feb 12 2006, 01:27 AM
Yep, and you could drive around for an hour trying to acquire satellites.
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the thing that puts me off adding extras on a car is you never get any money back on them, acar with 6000 or so extras on it will hardly be worth any more second hand
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Originally Posted by tonye60' post='238835' date='Feb 12 2006, 10:48 AM
the thing that puts me off adding extras on a car is you never get any money back on them, acar with 6000 or so extras on it will hardly be worth any more second hand
These days who wants to buy a ?35k+ car without Nav?
However, I *know* I'll never get the ?1200 back on the comfort seats I specced.
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Originally Posted by browellm' post='238886' date='Feb 12 2006, 02:22 PM
These days who wants to buy a ?35k+ car without Nav?
I don't mean to sound that negative. Of course 7-yr-old nav will be better than no nav. But, by then, sat nav will be pass?, standard in all but the cheapest new cars, so an old-fashioned system won't add much value, and selling a car with a superior after-market system won't be a problem.
I'm not saying don't buy BMW nav. It's a nice feature and has significant advantages over independent systems (as well as significant disadvantages). Just don't believe that you should buy it with resale in mind. Buy it because you want it and are prepared to write off most of the cost and pay through the nose for updated DVDs from time to time. Me, I'd rather buy a complete new independent system from time to time.
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Originally Posted by DaveH' post='238901' date='Feb 12 2006, 02:57 PM
Ah, but who in 4 years' time will want a 4-yr-old car with 7-yr-old nav? (Nav hasn't fundamentally changed since the E60 was introduced - it doesn't even let you type in a UK 7-digit postcode). Won't it look as antiquated as a 7-yr-old laptop running W98 does today - slow, crude interface, poor graphics, etc.?
I don't mean to sound that negative. Of course 7-yr-old nav will be better than no nav. But, by then, sat nav will be pass?, standard in all but the cheapest new cars, so an old-fashioned system won't add much value, and selling a car with a superior after-market system won't be a problem.
I'm not saying don't buy BMW nav. It's a nice feature and has significant advantages over independent systems (as well as significant disadvantages). Just don't believe that you should buy it with resale in mind. Buy it because you want it and are prepared to write off most of the cost and pay through the nose for updated DVDs from time to time. Me, I'd rather buy a complete new independent system from time to time.
I don't mean to sound that negative. Of course 7-yr-old nav will be better than no nav. But, by then, sat nav will be pass?, standard in all but the cheapest new cars, so an old-fashioned system won't add much value, and selling a car with a superior after-market system won't be a problem.
I'm not saying don't buy BMW nav. It's a nice feature and has significant advantages over independent systems (as well as significant disadvantages). Just don't believe that you should buy it with resale in mind. Buy it because you want it and are prepared to write off most of the cost and pay through the nose for updated DVDs from time to time. Me, I'd rather buy a complete new independent system from time to time.
Also, nobody actually pays for those DVD updates, do they? <_<