I just relocated from San Diego to Fairfax Virginia. I had the RX8 hauled to VA on the back of a car carrier. It handled the move OK but when I fired up the factory NAV system upon arrival it did not find my new location. The manual says that if you move the car from one location to another with the engine off the map will initially show the wrong location but once you run it for awhile in the new location it will reset.

Well I've driven it for 3 hours so far and it still shows that I'm wandering around the Riverside, CA area instead of playing dodgeball with the other cars on the DC Beltway.



Does anyone know how I reset the NAV so it knows that I'm on the East Coast, instead of the West Coast?

The details on my car are:

2005 RX8
NAV Map Version 2004.1

Thanks

 

I would pull the fuse in the footwell marked 'room' for a minute - it affects all the things that keep a memory when power is off, and it can't hurt.

You will lose your radio presets, but they are outdated anyway.....

S

 

Thanks. Do you know anything about the "secret backdoor NAV menus"? Do any of them have a location reset option?

 

OK, I fixed the problem.

Here's how I did it in case anyone else needs the information:

Use Back Door method #1 from this post:

https://www.rx8club.com/showpost.php...&postcount=231

Go down to the CD Check line at the bottom and select it (note: I went through all the other menu options first and didn't see anything that looked like it would accomplish what I needed it to.)

Initiate a Cold Start.

It shut the Nav system down and rebooted it. When it came up again it showed the car was in the close vicinity to where I actually was. After one minute of driving it zoomed into the right spot.

When I tried to enter an address into the system it would only show cities in the midwest. At the top of the "select address" screen it tells you what map section it is using. I changed that to the one that included the DC/Virginia area and I was good to go.

*** NOTE ***
The "Cold Start" option deletes all your saved locations so only do this if you don't need your saved addresses (or write them all down so you can re-enter them later)