tonye60

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

SKK

Unlikely in the short term or not significantly anyway. BMW's media pack price in the UK has actually gone up slightly but they do give you extended voice control as standard.

SolanNo1

I don't think the price will drop. What I do think is that NAV will become standard equipment a couple of MYs down the line.

browellm

Yep, and you could drive around for an hour trying to acquire satellites.

tonye60

90 secs on my unit

DaveH

Only if you buy the wrong unit. BMW satnav won't work in your garage, either, let alone your living room. Anything with a SiRFstar III chip, like TomTom One or Garmin nuvi, will pick up sats quickly and easily, even with a very restricted view of the sky.

tonye60

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

browellm

True Tony, but I think you have to be smart about what you do and don't specify if you are worried about that.

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.

DaveH

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.

browellm

Agree to disagree then. You contradicted yourself when you said "nav hasn't fundamentaly changed".

Also, nobody actually pays for those DVD updates, do they? <_<