[s-cars] Add On Navigation, was RE: Stealer Foiled

[Bill Mahoney]

Tom,
Let's not give Audi marketing any ideas.  A nav system that automatically
drives the car to the dealer, gives you a latte and charges your bank
account a grand is not that far from reality:/
and
For the generally lost amongst us; how about the Garmin nav solution:
http://www.garmin.com/products/iQue3600/#
or; how about add the Navman to your Ipaq:
http://www.navmanusa.com/land/gps3420/
or
How about a combo mp3, navigation, pda, cell phone, vag-com device?...
Feico??
On second thought, just get my tailgate latch and rear wiper to work
perfectly.. forever:)
Cheers'
Bill m  -thinkin too that maybe I could use some Blizzaks this afternoon.



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Green [mailto:trgreen at comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 2:08 PM
To: s-car-list at audifans.com; wmahoney at disk.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Stealer Foiled


I don't see the dealer playing an active role in price setting.
Rather, the better parts suppliers are proactive in the sourcing and
pricing of units, rather than passively using ANA suggested prices.  I
agree Audi pricing amounts to gouging, especially since this part was
only a small portion of the nav system whose main function seems to be
finding the closest dealer.
Being one of the poor cousins with only a 6 platform, I am left to
navigate with a laptop w/ rand mcnally maps and gps, which is unwieldy
while driving, or palm with gps where you run off the map too soon.
And you can not reset the maps while driving!  You should see the
prices on some of the portable units made for cars: $1K to $4K for
something too big to carry around and no integration in the vehicle
except cig liter power plug.  At least the laptop does VAG-COM and
Bentley manual.
Tom  no latte at my garage (cappuccino maybe)

On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 10:23 AM, Bill M  again reminded us
about his fancy A8;

> So, when the local stealer reported that old a8 Nav unit CD player that
> doesn't play would be $800 to replace and thats with trading in the
> old unit,
> I say uhmm no thank you kind sir.
> Call Claire this AM, $393 net.
> I can't say I'm totally surprised, but in a word; WTF!!
> I mean come on.  Double $$ ??
> There is no doubt in my mind that the new/used car sales tactics have
> spread
> to the service and parts departments where they take a deep breath,
> throw
> out a price and hope you say yes.  People are gonna be puking their
> Audi
> Cafe latte's :Q
> Be careful out there!
> <off soap box>
> Bill M - now $$ for that tor-cen rear diff:)