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alfa147x

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MotF Bane

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Just ran off three of my final four Carfax reports; one of them I should've gotten when I bought my car, but I forgot to download and print it then.
 

IndyColtsFan

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If you're a man who is capable of functioning in the world while giving zero fucks at all, wear a t shirt. And be awesome about it. :awe:

I wear T-shirts all the time. Most are sports-related (either Colts or Butler Final Four T-shirts :awe: ) or vendor supplied, but my wife got me a Space Invaders T-shirt a Christmas or two ago and I love the looks I get when I wear it out. :D
 

MotF Bane

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Looking over the possibility of replacing the OEM navigation with a Garmin.

1) Remove dashboard, radio, navigation display, navigation DVD drive.
2) Disassemble navigation display frame.
3) Modify frame to take a Garmin Nuvi.
4) Unseal the Garmin's casing, find the power and antenna.
5) Wire the Garmin antenna into the factory antenna (located near the windshield inside the dashboard).
6) Wire the Garmin's power lead into an ignition-hot line.
7) Reassemble radio, navigation, dashboard.

Pros:
Garmin interface is about 1000x easier to work with. No exaggeration.
Opens up the secondary glovebox for storage.
A new Garmin might even have voice commands.

Cons:
It won't quite look factory, and certainly is not. Pop up navigation system mitigates some of the appearance.
Garmin display is lower resolution, and map display isn't as good.

Other considerations: it might cost less than $20 to repurpose and modify an old Garmin; but a new larger Garmin (with voice cmds) would push the cost into the $2-300 range. Also, I've barely had to use the navigation, because, although I've been doing a lot of roaming, even my roaming rarely takes me away from places I know. It is rarely used. However, when I need it, it takes 5-10 minutes to input an address, and it cannot be done while moving. A Garmin takes about a minute to input an address, and it can, in a pinch, be done while moving.

I do have navigation on my Thunderbolt, but it also trails behind the Garmin interface.