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Nissan Altima Hybrid Navigation System Questions
Does the Navigation system announce the street names turn by turn? The manual says the following:
"The announcement of the street name during
route guidance is available only when English is
set as the language for the system. Street names
are not announced if French is set for the
system."
On another site, it said that it does not give street names except on the map. This is nuts if true. My 2 year old Garmen I stick on my dash can do that. I would expect a factory NAV to have greater capability.
"The announcement of the street name during
route guidance is available only when English is
set as the language for the system. Street names
are not announced if French is set for the
system."
On another site, it said that it does not give street names except on the map. This is nuts if true. My 2 year old Garmen I stick on my dash can do that. I would expect a factory NAV to have greater capability.
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Knowing the name of the street to turn on is a habit from reading maps and is no longer necessary, just follow the arrows and voice prompts.
Maybe it's because I'm getting old, but that sounds like you don't need to know where you are or where you're going. :P
(I don't have or use a cell phone either!)
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As one of the other posters said, the difference between Garmin and the Nissan nav system is the Inertial Navigation System, making the Nissan system far superior (even if it can't pronounce names). The INS uses gyros in the car to sense what the car is doing, even if satellites can't be "seen" by the nav system. When you're in a city with tall buildings, or in deep mountain valleys, normal GPS systems can lose their satelite locks, leaving you high and dry when you're looking for say, a Starbucks in downtown San Francisco (yeah, now THAT'S hard to find...). With the INS, the car still knows where it is even if the view of the sky (and the satelites) is blocked and will get you to your latte without a hiccup.
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Steve
And thus void at least part of the warranty. Remember that a hybrid is partially electric; changing anything electrical could be construed as interfering with the propulsion system if anything were to go wrong.
"cut a wire and install a switch"... let's see here ...
In practice it might only void the warranty on the Navigation system, but who knows what a company will do when presented with a major repair and an obvious modification?
the 244V hybrid portion of the car is a complete different system then the standard 12V. yes, a dealership can say you did this, you did that, but if you do it cleanly and use common sense, it shouldn't be a problem.
cutting the speed sense wire and bridging it with a switch is not that difficult for anyone who has any electrical experience. if your Navi ever had any issues, remove the switch you installed and patch the wire
i know a website with step by step instructions if anyone is interested
oh yeah, btw, this is a do at your own risk project
Thanks
By the way, for those that are pouring through their owner's manuals like lawyers to find the truth of the systems operations, you're going to find a lot of places in the manual that refer to other places that don't even exist. You'll also find places where the manual is just plain wrong. Let's hope Nissan's quality control is better on their cars than it is on their owner's manuals...
the 244V hybrid portion of the car is a complete different system then the standard 12V. yes, a dealership can say you did this, you did that, but if you do it cleanly and use common sense, it shouldn't be a problem.
cutting the speed sense wire and bridging it with a switch is not that difficult for anyone who has any electrical experience. if your Navi ever had any issues, remove the switch you installed and patch the wire "
I didn't say it was hard, I said it might void your warranty. Hybrids use electricity as part of the propulsion system, and any unauthorized modifications by the user allows the manufacturer the opening to deny a warranty claim. The hybrid electric propulsion system is very complex.
of course, depending on the dealership, they could say that if affected your car (but the 12V system is completely separate from the 244V system), so it really is a do this at your own risk.
for what it's worth, I had my navigation system replaced due to a faulty sensor, so I'm not sure how robust these navigation systems are.
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My 2008 Altima Coupe is 3 weeks old. The navigation would chime when approaching
a turn. That stopped after 1 week. Went through all settings and spent 5 hours at the dealer who can't figure out why it stopped. Any help or numbers available out there to call. Nissan tech support says it sounds like hardware. Dealer thinks its a setting. Still no one has answer. Thanks.
I have not yet figured out how to activate the NAVTEQ traffic? How do you do that? do you ahve to call navteq for activation? Help! I live in Hartford and it is included in teh coverage area per navteq.com
Tom Scott
07 NAH with Tech Package.
will update the forum :mad: