Nerds 2 You
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- 2008 Explorer Limited
Hi All, I Have a 2008 Explorer limited that did not come with factory navigation. I found a navigation unit at a local auto wrecker for $125 Cdn and bought it as the donor vehicle was also a 2008 Limited, had rear seat entertainment as mine does, had Sync etc and was mostly identical to mine.
I installed the head unit and almost everything works correctly, the seek and volume from the steering wheel, rear entertainment system shows on the nav screen and works, I can set pre-sets for the radio, everything else I tried works except for two things.
I cannot set the time or date, I tried but the buttons to adjust time do nothing.I believe this may be because I do not have the GPS antenna yet, can anyone confirm that the factory navigation radio automatically gets time and date from GPS?
The Voice button on the steering wheel is no longer working, the donor vehicle had Sync so I figured it should work. I still get voice prompts from the system when doing certain things like connecting a new phone and some other functions that automatically trigger sync response. Anyone know if there is a way to resolve this? I tried searching for a list of Forscan mods but have not been able to find anything yet.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I installed the head unit and almost everything works correctly, the seek and volume from the steering wheel, rear entertainment system shows on the nav screen and works, I can set pre-sets for the radio, everything else I tried works except for two things.
I cannot set the time or date, I tried but the buttons to adjust time do nothing.I believe this may be because I do not have the GPS antenna yet, can anyone confirm that the factory navigation radio automatically gets time and date from GPS?
The Voice button on the steering wheel is no longer working, the donor vehicle had Sync so I figured it should work. I still get voice prompts from the system when doing certain things like connecting a new phone and some other functions that automatically trigger sync response. Anyone know if there is a way to resolve this? I tried searching for a list of Forscan mods but have not been able to find anything yet.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.