Lexus Navigation System On Older Models...

[BimmerJustin]

If I buy a 2000 GS with navi, does Lexus offer an update for it? The car is 8 years old and road maps have definitely changed since then, especially around me.

Also, a subscription is not required for Lexus build-in navi, correct?

[SW03ES]

No subscription required.

The 98-00 cars have a hard drive based nav system, the last update for that system was 2005 I believe, they won't be making any others because its difficult due to the hard drive.

If factory nav is important to you, I'd get a 2001. The 2001 has the DVD system and updates are still readily available.

[silvercorvette]

If you don't mind having your NAV sitting on top of the dashboad I would buy a Garmin. I got fed up with a NAV that doesn't work when the car is moving, and bought a lockpick, but I already owned the Garmin because I bought it for my Jeep Grand Cherokee that didn't have a built in NAV. Garmin makes their units in a wide rang of prices {the more you pay the more it will do}. The Garmin 7500 has the same size screen as the Lexus factory unit but it does a lot more. I just got a GS450H that came with a built in NAV. I had considered buying another lockpick or other device to make it work but I am going to plop the Garmin on the dash for long trips, and since I am new to the SC area I will have the

factory NAV to use only if I get lost. By the way my Garmin is a couple years old and it lists the Sams and Walmart 2.7 miles from my house, but the 08 GS has the latest version 7.1 ? and not only does it not list Sam's or Walmart, it also doesn't show a lot of other stores in the area.

The Garmin has remote control, which seems willy but it comes in handy, it also is able to say the name of the street. Lexus will say = turn right in 500 feet, Garmin will say = in 500 feet right on Raintree Drive

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[BimmerJustin]

No subscription required.

The 98-00 cars have a hard drive based nav system, the last update for that system was 2005 I believe, they won't be making any others because its difficult due to the hard drive.

If factory nav is important to you, I'd get a 2001. The 2001 has the DVD system and updates are still readily available.

it actually just so happens that the car I am looking at has navi. I think I would prefer if it did not, because I would rather get a garmin or something. But if I do wind up buying this car, I'll just take it for what its worth.

[SW03ES]

You can always just buy a Garmin and don't use the nav the car has...

[silvercorvette]

You can always just buy a Garmin and don't use the nav the car has...

Exactaly, my 08 GS has the NAV but I use the Garmin. I like the factory NAV because it includes a back up camera and a bunch of other neat stuff