View Full Version : Went to Shane's recommended dealer and nav question


slow35th
10-13-05, 07:52 PM
I went to Shane’s recommended dealership today for a Nav replacement and wheel hop bushings. The dealership is first rate. They treated me very well and seamed to care as much about my car as I do and even made sure it was washed by a certain guy that is known to do a good job. It is Demontrond Cadillac, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep. (yes I know a weird combination) and BK is the service rep if anyone wants to take their V there. I showed them James' post about using anti-seize lube on the bushings and they used it liberally. I looked under the car when I got home and they lubed them up well. They did a very neat job. GM still showed the PCM flash on my car as an open recall and the Tech must have recognized that my PCM was not stock and made a note on the service ticket that it did not apply to my car. Very cool, I did not have to say anything and it was done very low key. I like that.

On the nav question. The firmware version and all version numbers stayed the same on the nav unit. I asked XM to activate Nav Traffic but it does not appear to be working. Shouldn’t this "new" unit be capable of Nav Traffic?

Staxxin
10-13-05, 08:22 PM
I had the exact same issue. I noticed that after the replacement my XM radio ID didn't change so my thoughts are the XM tuner is seperate from the radio. I'm hoping someone can validate my thoughts.

benjet
10-13-05, 08:31 PM
I know of NO V owner who has been able to get NavTraffic to work on any car built before 1/18/05. What yet is the difference has yet to be discovered.

Anyone?? Bueller?...

odysseus
10-13-05, 09:44 PM
There was a guy from XM who who posted on the CTS forum a few months back that the NavTraffic function needs a different XM tuner (called it a Hip box, or something), presumably to decode the non-music stream of data and forward it to the Nav over the serial bus (as opposed to the audio-in connections). It wasn't installed in CTS's until mid-05, to my knowledge.

The XM tuner sits on the rear shelf next to the subwoofer. The Nav simply has the decoder software, not the actual tuner inside.

Staxxin
10-14-05, 09:38 AM
I assume a requesting a XM tuner replacement (part #?) could correct this for us...