hey everybody, new the board. Just got my new 04 z touring. I have a couple of questions. Love the car, hate the sound system. Was thinking about getting a new head unit. Will it work with my exisiting factory navagation? also was looking into the nav tv. But before i go that route, is it possible to just by a new screen and dvd player and have it work with the exisiting nav? Thanks for your input. Great board!

 

if you remove the bose radio I would be willing to purchase it, thanks joe

 

The existing NAV system uses an RGBS video signal.
To keep the existing NAV CPU would require you to find a display that can receive RGBS, or a device that can convert RGBS to the format of your new screen.

This ain't an easy or inexpensive task.

Also, it sounds like you will want to video sources:
Video 1: NAV
Video 2: DVD

Check out my web pages for my experience w/ a similar attempt:
http://www.swooby.com/z/navpc/

I tried several things, and I finally removed the entire factory nav and stereo and replaced both with an ITX PC with a 7" Xenarc touchscreen (plus a new stereo).
This was, sadly, the simplest solution in my opinion!
I have no complaints!

Pv

 

I removed my bose head unit and amp last week and am willing to sell them.

You do know that it will be very difficult to do a fresh install of these things in the Z, don't you?

Pv