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Barclay

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I have just been quoted £470 for an update on my sat nav!! Daylight robbery or what?! I have an 08 turbo. Any suggestions?
 
Buy a Garmin for half the price and stick it to the middle of the PCM screen! Yes, its expensive and you're pretty much stuck with the price - although £470 is about £100 more than I've seen before.
 
[:eek:] thats a lot!! I've never seen it at that cost before.. I was thinking about getting some new maps for mine on the next update, but not at that sort of cost. Is that with them adding labour for them doing the software update? garyw
 
(Assuming you do not have PCM 3 fitted to your car) List price for the update set (997 044 902 50) is £303.53 less 10% PCGB discount = £273.18 plus VAT = £320.98 I would expect that an 08 version of the PCM and the DVD drive will not need a firmware update. So you should be able to swap the Map DVD yourself.
 
ORIGINAL: spyderman Buy a Garmin for half the price and stick it to the middle of the PCM screen! .
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Firstly, welcome to the forum Sheila![:)] Secondly, sadly however much is spent on the current Porsche Sat Navs they are still not going to be "state of the art" so Chris's suggestion above is sensible if not asthetically pleasing! (And you will get a full postcode search too) Or you could join the club and get a 10% discount........[8|] Or there may be someone selling cheapo discs on Fleabay but I'd give them a wide berth![;)]
 
ORIGINAL: Barclay I have just been quoted £470 for an update on my sat nav!! Daylight robbery or what?!  I have an 08 turbo.  Any suggestions?
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My suggestion is to drive around using the 08 discs. Yes there will be a few updates but proportionate to the number of Roads that you actually drive on the changes will probably be too insignificant to worry about. I have found that when you do drive on an un mapped new road it is pretty obvious what has changed and after a few miles the new bit of road joins the old road. The Points of interest may be a fraction out of date too, but would you really care ? Save the money and don't worry that you have not got the latest discs , which probably are out of date by the time they are for sale.
 
That really is daylight robbery for what is now "just" satnav. I now have a garmin 765 that I use instead of my Porsche satnav. I have it mounted with an airvent mount and only put it on when I travel away from home. the rest of the time I know I have and 'emergency' satnay stil in the car. For long journeys the Garmin gives me speed camera detection (via pocket GPS world membership at £19.99 per year), bluetooth phone integration that works perfectly with my iphone, has traffic warnings, it transmits from a 16GB music card into it over FM and always has up to date maps. What cost the maps? £69.99 for 4 updated maps per year for the life of the Garmin. That's a bargain and the device works perfectly. Come on Porsche - stop treating us like this - we're prepared to pay a premium but to a point - the technology you supply should be competitive rather than restrictive and behind the times.
 
Actually, I've always found the various generations of Porsche PCMs to be pretty good - at the time of launch, that is. In the main, the current/latest system is really excellent. However, what is inexcuseable is Porsches failure to support customers who have invested in their systems with affordable upgrades and updates. Many other manufacturers do it - with numerous benefits for all concerned. Porsche could learn a lot from some simple goodwill/PR gestures in this area.
 
ORIGINAL: oliver In the main, the current/latest system is really excellent.
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Agreed Mike - but it STILL doesn't have full postcode facility[:mad:] which any old off-the-shelf in Halfrauds Sat Nav does have.
 
ORIGINAL: Barclay I have just been quoted £470 for an update on my sat nav!! Daylight robbery or what?! I have an 08 turbo. Any suggestions?
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My 08 Turbo came with a disk marked 2007 and based on 2005 data! If you have the same disk your OPC might be amenable to giveing you some discount if you complain. (I winged to my OPC for a replacement disk with no luck but was offered a discount to £350.00 which I declined and bought a Garmin instead) I don't know what the latest PCM3 is like but the 2 is pretty unimpressive not listing many hotels in France and Germany or locating them in the wrong place!. I winged to the OPC to no avail but was offered the update
 
I keep a Tomtom in the glove box when I go to Europe ( they tend to change their roads more than in UK ) the 06 Porsche jobby is fine here in blighty. [8|]
 
Hi If anyone wants to update their PCM 2.1 (Gen 1 997) to the latest software and latest map data (08.2009), drop me a PM as I have all the discs needed and can help you :) Regards
 
The PCM and 2005 onward cars use MOST fibre optices so I would suggest the digital tuner would be an add on device , like the telphone , CD or Amp. Whether porsche offer it as an option (tequipment) or someone like dietz or Dension probably will. As to the maps , try buying a set of tom tom or garmin maps that cover UK ireland and as far east as Bulgaria and Greece and you will find the costs work out very similar. The reason its so expensive is becuase porsche only commission one map DVD for the whole of europe , so its got a lot of data. Granted , the map updates (even 2009) still have some shocking omissions but thats down to the map code source and the time it takes to get it onto DVD and on sale.
 
Does anyone know how / if / when updates will be made available for the PCM3 in Gen-2 cars? I can't get an answer from my OPC, just blank looks! They don't seem to have the slightest clue.
 
I was thinking the same for PCM 2 Ian.. About time I updated mine too.. I'll see if my local service centre have any ideas... garyw
 
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