Navigation Question For You All

[Deluxe247]

I just bought a pearl white 2005 IS300. I wanted to buy the car with Navigation, but unfotunatly, since the 2006 is coming out. I couldnt find a dealer with a white IS with Nav. The dealer reffered me to an aftermarket company called "Hands Free For You." www.handsfreeforyou.com. The have a pretty intresting product. But it does not have a navigation screen, it is all voice activated.

Has any one seen a product like this? If so does it work well? what are the pros and cons for this.

Coast is about $2000

Another question for anyone that has strong knowledge in this area.

Is it possible to get the new 2006 navigation put into my 2005?

Any help would be great. I am looking to buy soon, but want to make sure I am doing the right thing.

[revlis240]

I just bought a  pearl white 2005 IS300. I wanted to buy the car with Navigation, but unfotunatly, since the 2006 is coming out. I couldnt find a dealer with a white IS with Nav. The dealer reffered me to an aftermarket company called "Hands Free For You." www.handsfreeforyou.com. The have a pretty intresting product. But it does not have a navigation screen, it is all voice activated.

Has any one seen a product like this? If so does it work well? what are the pros and cons for this.

Coast is about $2000

Another question for anyone that has strong knowledge in this area.

Is it possible to get the new 2006 navigation put into my 2005?

Any help would be great. I am looking to buy soon, but want to make sure I am doing the right thing.

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I work as a consultant for Lexus, for ALL bluetooth/technology/nav issues. and i can tell you that i took over what Handsfeesolutions used to do for Lexus Santa Monica. Anyway...

1) Look into the Raytel 4000 and find an installer for it, works VERY well. its very very nice and ive used it first hand. best part...$600 installed at some places..look around..

2) No you cant rig the 06 nav to work in your car. if u really want nav, build a car computer and mount the screen where the stock screen went, www.mp3car.com or install the pioneer aftermarket navi there, some dealers will do it for less than/around $2000..

HTH

Abe

[PIONEERSUBY]

I just bought a  pearl white 2005 IS300. I wanted to buy the car with Navigation, but unfotunatly, since the 2006 is coming out. I couldnt find a dealer with a white IS with Nav. The dealer reffered me to an aftermarket company called "Hands Free For You." www.handsfreeforyou.com. The have a pretty intresting product. But it does not have a navigation screen, it is all voice activated.

Has any one seen a product like this? If so does it work well? what are the pros and cons for this.

Coast is about $2000

Another question for anyone that has strong knowledge in this area.

Is it possible to get the new 2006 navigation put into my 2005?

Any help would be great. I am looking to buy soon, but want to make sure I am doing the right thing.

←

I work as a consultant for Lexus, for ALL bluetooth/technology/nav issues. and i can tell you that i took over what Handsfeesolutions used to do for Lexus Santa Monica. Anyway...

1) Look into the Raytel 4000 and find an installer for it, works VERY well. its very very nice and ive used it first hand. best part...$600 installed at some places..look around..

2) No you cant rig the 06 nav to work in your car. if u really want nav, build a car computer and mount the screen where the stock screen went, www.mp3car.com or install the pioneer aftermarket navi there, some dealers will do it for less than/around $2000..

HTH

Abe

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the most stock look would be the es330 navigation unit mounted in place of the 6 disc radio. the price would be 1700.00 and would include the rear view camera moiunted at licence plate lite level and a ntsc dvd movie port. would only need hookups to reverse sensor for camera and the speed sensor. the factrory nav would be a difficult install but possible. i have one of those also but have never tried installing one. the es330 nav CAN BE INSTALLED IN ANY LEXUS.

[navguy]

I just bought a  pearl white 2005 IS300. I wanted to buy the car with Navigation, but unfotunatly, since the 2006 is coming out. I couldnt find a dealer with a white IS with Nav. The dealer reffered me to an aftermarket company called "Hands Free For You." www.handsfreeforyou.com. The have a pretty intresting product. But it does not have a navigation screen, it is all voice activated.

Has any one seen a product like this? If so does it work well? what are the pros and cons for this.

Coast is about $2000

Another question for anyone that has strong knowledge in this area.

Is it possible to get the new 2006 navigation put into my 2005?

Any help would be great. I am looking to buy soon, but want to make sure I am doing the right thing.

←

I work as a consultant for Lexus, for ALL bluetooth/technology/nav issues. and i can tell you that i took over what Handsfeesolutions used to do for Lexus Santa Monica. Anyway...

1) Look into the Raytel 4000 and find an installer for it, works VERY well. its very very nice and ive used it first hand. best part...$600 installed at some places..look around..

2) No you cant rig the 06 nav to work in your car. if u really want nav, build a car computer and mount the screen where the stock screen went, www.mp3car.com or install the pioneer aftermarket navi there, some dealers will do it for less than/around $2000..

HTH

Abe

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the most stock look would be the es330 navigation unit mounted in place of the 6 disc radio. the price would be 1700.00 and would include the rear view camera moiunted at licence plate lite level and a ntsc dvd movie port. would only need hookups to reverse sensor for camera and the speed sensor. the factrory nav would be a difficult install but possible. i have one of those also but have never tried installing one. the es330 nav CAN BE INSTALLED IN ANY LEXUS.

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The 06MY navigation will not integrate with your 05MY IS300. As another member mentioned an aftermarket unit from Alpine, Eclipse, Kenwood or Pioneer can easily be installed in place of your factory radio. Several aftermarket kits and harnesses make it easy to integrate it with your vehicle. If you really want the same look, and i do mean 'the same', check out Eclipse and Kenwood. You will find that they look identical to the factory system. Plus with the aftermarket stuff you get better equaliziation and you can add a rear camera!

Lastly the comment regarding adding an ES330 navigation is a bit misleading. To do so you would need to get the matching amplifier, cables and so on; much more complicated than it appears to be. I would STRONGLY suggest not taking this route.

[ko90ls]

i could get you a pioneer fold out dvd/nav/backup camera/everything, real 007. cost is about 1700.

[Deluxe247]

Thanks for all the comments. I would like to keep the car looking as stock as absolutley possible. Mounting a monitor where the factory one would go sounds like a good option.

Just want a product that does not make me type in all kinds of info while I am driving. That is why the hands free thing seemed so cool. Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hands free for you, sucks. The system they sell is amazing but they are over priced by $1000 dollors, I found the manufacuter for their systems and it would only cost me $700 bucks from them. Instead of the 2 grand hands free is trying to get me for.

www.mp3car.com is an intresting site but I really do not have that much computer brains and spending a few months researching is just not worth it to me.

Thanks for all the responses,