Navigation SD Card

[Daz Auto]

I can only speak for the standard Discover Media system in my Mk7.5. Though this may help.

The original SD card in the car is 16Gb in size and is formatted Fat32. IIRC it does not indicate on the card what class or speed it is. Though I would think any modern card would work ok.

I don't think there is anything special about the VW SD card. Someone else said they used non VW SD card. Amazon is probably the best place to get one.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Ultra-Memory-Frustration-Packaging/dp/B014IX02KC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515147196&sr=8-1&keywords=sandisk+ultra+16gb

Here is what worked for me -

Got it to work eventually

So I went to this site - http://webspecial.volkswagen.de/maps/int/en/index.html

(This didn't work for my Discover Media VW SD Card -

I downloaded the DiscoverCare program. This program said that the there were no updates available.

I went to the next page, did the backup, then the download which took hours, then the install which failed near the end. )

This did work for my Discover Media VW SD Card -

I downloaded the European Countries, Bundle 1, 17/12/12 update.

Then I dowloaded the 7.zip program near the bottom of the updates page and installed it.

I copied all the data off my VW SD Card into a folder on my computer. So the card was empty.

Then I clicked on the update file with my right button and used 7.zip to extract the 'MAPS' to my SD Card.

Remember to lock the SD Card again.

Now the Navigation info says 2018.



Note: as with any update you do so at your own risk!

[Talk-torque]

As far as I know, it has to be a VW card. They have some sort of embedded coding that a generic card won't have, so, again as far as I know, even cloning a VW card will not work.

Anyway, I didn't think that was the point of the OP's question - thought he just wanted to copy the data from a 2017 MY car's card to a 2014 MY car's card.

[fredgroves]

I don't have a standard nav, based on the SD card, but I can tell you that its highly unlikely to have any copy protection!

I suspect what it has is a volume label that makes it recognise it as being the nav data... just copying the files won't work, you need to set the volume label too.

[ajmoir36]

You need a proper nav card there is a hidden CID in the firmware of the card that cannot be copied applies to Nav rather than Nav Pro. This CID is written at manufacture and cannot be copied as generally SD cards are write protected for this area from manufacture. Ebay is your friend thats where I got my sisters for her discovery Nav. Normal cards didnt work.