November map updates

[Watts]

Does anyone know how much it costs for the VW pre-loaded SD card? I'm not mentally equipped to cope with "roots" and files and don't have any suitable equipment for adding stuff to an SD card. If it is expensive then I'll either not bother or the cost may be enough to encourage me to learn how to download. I have the standard nav which I rarely use and when I do, I usually just end up shouting at it!

I don't even know if they do pre loaded cards. When i was trying to get our Audis firmware updated which was done by SD Card they wanted to charge me an hours labour at £133+ VAT just for sticking a card in 

Its really simple just get yourself a card reader for a couple of pounds like this

Download the files you need to your PC
Extract them
Copy over to your memory card using the memory card reader above
Put it into your car and the jobs done 

Alternatively if you PM me your address I'll send you the files you need on a SD card and just put it in the car.

That's a generous and very kind offer, thanks
The VW website shows cards available to buy as an alternative to downloading but doesn't give a price. I'll give them a call sometime, failing that I'll follow you tips and give it a go (I'm reasonably practical but prefer tasks that involve a hammer ).

Cheers!

[clubsport]

I have just been looking at the Nov 2015 update for the regular discover nav.

I removed the VW sd from slot 2. I saved the existing 2013 files to my laptop from the handy sd card slot, when I came to format the VW sd card, it said something about not being able to write over this.

I assume I need to buy another standard sd card of 16-32GB.

Is there any specifics to this, I have seen class 4 & class 10, does this matter?

Thanks for any help.

[GeoBog]

I removed the VW sd from slot 2. I saved the existing 2013 files to my laptop from the handy sd card slot, when I came to format the VW sd card, it said something about not being able to write over this.

I assume you flipped the write protect latch to open on the sd card?

[clubsport]

Aaahh!

Thanks for that!

Now resolved with updated maps,one good thing is it shows 2016 version on the Discover nav unit.

Cheers.

[mk7gti]

Guys do these map updates also update the media unit firmware and applications such as Carplay?

[p3asa]

No.
Its purely the maps.

[Mrparkuk]

Aaahh!

Thanks for that!

Now resolved with updated maps,one good thing is it shows 2016 version on the Discover nav unit.

Cheers.

What do you mean by this?

Cheers

[clubsport]

Pretty much as it says,

Once I inserted the updated sd card, the Nav initialised and when I went to set up to see which version I had installed on the Discover nav, it showed various digits followed by 2016.

I assume the Nov 15 update is their idea of 2016 data, much like when most German factories return from their summer holidays they start making the "next model" year, even though it may be 2015 at the time, in this case.