Honda civic EK9 navigation
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Honda civic EK9 navigation
hey i was thinking of buying the JDM Honda civic EK9 navigation center console for my 96 civic i want to know how to get the navi to work in the states and is it easy to intall the unit and is it even worth getting
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Maybe you could start by figuring out where to get it first, then worrying about everything else later. If I've learned anything over the last few years, it's that you can get anything to work with anything. I found this picture, Import Tuner tagged it. maybe you can write someone from the magazine to source the information you need. Sounds like it'd be a long term project. Here's a picture for motivation!!!
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i have the navi in my car. i dont recommend it to any one. you cant use the navi here in the states,it doesnt work,if your going to use it just for looks go for it. dont buy anything with any cut wiring, its useless if it has pig tails unless your a genius at wiring.
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Agreed with others, looks really cool, but waste of time upgrade. No support, all custom wiring....and for what?? It "looks" cool. It it wired in easy and had functional NAV, i'd be all over it!
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Its from the Si-R in Japan. So it won't be programed with any US maps.
Though I thought someone got it working in there civic because I was going to do this, and only because someone figured out how to load the US maps.
You would be best off getting the entire firewall wiring harness. Maybe even the whole cars harness if you don't want to do any splicing.
Didn't these come in the EDM models as well?
Though I thought someone got it working in there civic because I was going to do this, and only because someone figured out how to load the US maps.
You would be best off getting the entire firewall wiring harness. Maybe even the whole cars harness if you don't want to do any splicing.
Didn't these come in the EDM models as well?
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Maybe you could start by figuring out where to get it first, then worrying about everything else later. If I've learned anything over the last few years, it's that you can get anything to work with anything. I found this picture, Import Tuner tagged it. maybe you can write someone from the magazine to source the information you need. Sounds like it'd be a long term project. Here's a picture for motivation!!!
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Maybe you could start by figuring out where to get it first, then worrying about everything else later. If I've learned anything over the last few years, it's that you can get anything to work with anything. I found this picture, Import Tuner tagged it. maybe you can write someone from the magazine to source the information you need. Sounds like it'd be a long term project. Here's a picture for motivation!!!
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It might be more interesting if you could pull the navigation components out of it and wire up the buttons (probably not too hard) and LCD (probably better off replacing with a VGA-compatible LCD the same size) to some sort of car pc; then you could connect your own GPS and use whatever software you want.
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And even then it's pretty stupid on an LHD car since the heater controls are all the way to the right side of the console which I'd imagine is pretty clumsy to use.
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Re: Honda civic EK9 navigation
you can calll bull **** andthing is possible they come with a small flash memory drive in side to cary the maps. thus get it upload it re flash it with us maps might need more memory to carry that much information. and you can screw with the controls that way
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The maps are stored on a disc (note the disc slot below the screen). You'd have to either get a disc with US maps in the format that the navigation system expects (if it exists, and even if it did it'd probably be a decade out of date), or figure out how to take existing maps and reencode them in that format. You'd probably need to get a Japanese disc to reverse-engineer it if you were going that route.
Possible? Yes. Practical? Doubtful.
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I've heard rumors of people trying to get it to work but don't remember anyone actually getting it to work with US maps.
This system runs off CD-ROM while US navigation runs off DVD.
This is a show piece, it is not a useful feature, especially in the US.
There was a TV tuner too, but they don't all come with them. Even then it could only pick up basic cable stations. Now that the US has gone digital I'm not so sure it will work at all.
This system runs off CD-ROM while US navigation runs off DVD.
This is a show piece, it is not a useful feature, especially in the US.
There was a TV tuner too, but they don't all come with them. Even then it could only pick up basic cable stations. Now that the US has gone digital I'm not so sure it will work at all.
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