Install OEM NAV unit

[2FAST4U]

Hello LS folks,
I have a 2004 LS with the factory 6 CD and wanted to install the factory NAV system. Is this a plug and play? In other words, are the wiring harnesses installed like most modern cars and you just buy the parts and install?

I noticed the THX unit is a 6 CD and the standard unit is a single CD? Is the THX unit an all in one? Or does it use a separate DVD player mounted in the trunk? Where exactly in the trunk does the DVD mount?

Thanks for your replies, in advance.

 

[joegr]

No, the wiring is not in place. The nav head unit uses many of the same connectors as the other radios, but the connections are greatly different.

For a minimum install you need:
Wiring harnesses (several of them)
Nav head unit
Nav DVD trunk unit
Factory four channel amplifier (the nav head has no built in amplifier)
GPS antenna

For a complete install, you also need to add:
rear view mirror with microphone.
new steering wheel buttons.
sub-woofers and amplifier.
Replace all speakers (the THX nav speakers in the doors are different than what you have.)


Really, it is much easier to put in after-market nav.

 

[1LoudLS]

it has been covered a thousand times, go with aftermarket, you will get so much more functionality(Ipod, bluetooth, voice rec, video...) for so much less money AND work

 

[NYC LS8]

Yeah, go aftermarket...

http://www.lincolnvscadillac.com/showthread.php?t=57932

 

[1LoudLS]

whoa dude, thats a hell of a deal, anybody that wants nav would have to be crazy to pass that up

BTW Tommy, a SRT 300, pulled up next to me at a light 2 or 3 nights ago, light went green and I blew his f$*%ing doors off, it was so awesome, even if he didn't know we were racing! lmfao

 

[NYC LS8]

That's what I'm saying. Really don't know why I still have this damn thing sitting here.

LOL at the race

 

[BrianDye]

1LoudLS....


Ann arbor, mi?
Im down about 35-40 minutes from you, my mom has my LS up there all the time (I let her use it when she needs to, her lease on the escape was up, and I still have my 2 explorers)

 

[1LoudLS]

yea, ann arbor MI, fo sho, i seen that you where local, your straight east from here right, near 75

 

[1LoudLS]

I Really don't know why I still have this damn thing sitting here.

tell me about it, I really dont know why everybody is so interested in the factory nav

 

[Alax7]

Keeps the stock look. Great nav if already in it and people think its an easier/ better swap going stock than aftermarket till they come here and we tell them otherwise.