OEM Navigation questions

Norcal Flyfisherman · February 28, 2014

Anyone use it in rural areas? Does it show back country roads, forests, mountains, streams, etc? Are other maps like topo compatible? Are free updates included? If so, how is this accomplished? Love it? Hate it?

fondupot · February 28, 2014

I've used it on a trip from Chicago to Columbus. Works well. I like it.

Updates will probably not be free.

KUUG · February 28, 2014

My Garmin is so much better. I'm not too impressed with it but I have seen worse. Some county roads show up and some don't here in Texas. Haven't been out of state yet but been all over Texas with it.

Truck13 · February 28, 2014

I live in a rural area with many unpaved roads and they all show up. They didn't on my 2008 BMW.

LeoS41280 · February 28, 2014

There are back roads that don't show up on mine. When I'm on them it says so. You have to buy a disc to up date the factory nav. It has helped me in my travels. But don't rely on it alone. I have found a few mistakes on it.

Norcal Flyfisherman · March 1, 2014

Thanks fot the input! I had a feeling the salesman I talked with was wrong. He said the updates automatically happen over the air. I'm still debating whether or not to buy the nav when I get my truck, or go with a portable one.

cmpcpro · March 1, 2014

I always purchase it. It's always nice to have.

sh00ter · March 3, 2014

The navigation system on the 2014s don't use a disk.

fshouttah2o · March 3, 2014

Got mine without nav, thinking I'd just use my smartphone. Wish I had factory for ease of use while driving. For the low price installed, I recommend getting it. You can find factory nav as an aftermarket but its much pricier - approaching double from some vendors.

KMGZ400 · March 3, 2014

I don't remember for sure but I think there is an off-road setting in my gmt900's nav.... Not sure what it does. Also not sure if the 14's have it

MotoMedic · March 3, 2014

I tried using mine for the first few weeks I had the truck... IMO it's garbage. The nav system in my 2003 Accord and my six year old Garmin both worked better. Really wishing I had skipped the nav option and waited for the aftermarket. Walt at ADC (http://www.adcmobile.com/) said they'll be releasing a nav add-on for K2 trucks soon. Hopefully it'll be better and under $1000.

If you're interest in adding nav (GM's or aftermarket) to a 2014, they have a pretty big topic on the subject in the Acc/Mods sub-forum here: http://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/topic/154438-upgrading-the-chevy-mylink-system-for-navigation/

Mikeoxbig · March 3, 2014

I have the NAV and it shows everything. I live In a rural area and it shows all the roads. I was going around a new rotary and it actually told me take the second right inside of the rotary. Was impressed with the detail

Kennedy81 · March 3, 2014

Got mine without nav, thinking I'd just use my smartphone. Wish I had factory for ease of use while driving. For the low price installed, I recommend getting it. You can find factory nav as an aftermarket but its much pricier - approaching double from some vendors.

What is the low installed price? I haven't seen anything that I'd consider low...

fshouttah2o · March 4, 2014

I just meant relatively low as factory option as compared to, in some cases double, after the fact. I also mistakenly thought the onstar directions would give me similar functionality, which they definitely DON'T.

crushNchowda · March 4, 2014

I find it is plenty detailed and I have driven up and down New England with it, my grips with the nav are a) that you cannot enter an address and save it to a "favorite" (my $100 gamin does this), and b) it seems a little slow to react to inputs & has cut out a couple times but has always come back- in fact the entire intellilink has blacked on me before. Maybe there's a software update?

I will say it has never failed to locate an address I have entered and seems to do that pretty quickly. I do appreciate that it will automatically complete the balance of an address just by starting the first couple numbers