V36 Skyline Navigation Retrofit With 370Z Nav System

[moondandy]

Hi Guys,

Im new to the forum, i got myself a 2008 v36 skyline sedan with HDD navigation, currently im running an iphone + tomtom gps + video cable out through aux input with ground wire mod to the system. My question is it is possible to retrofit a whole 370z dvd sat nav system to v36 since from what i can see is that it is almost identical? (my guess it will cost prob around 10k if im not mistaken). also with infiniti launching soon, will that be possible to buy g37 satnav sys and install it on the car?

Thanks.

[Seano350GT]

Chris Rogers

[Alkatraz]

Chris will be able to give you the full rundown, but from my basic experience having pulled the dash on my car apart on multiple occasions, I would say, just forget about it. This car is wired up so that EVERYTHING effects EVERYTHING else. You would need to replace the entire sat nav, air con controls, steering wheel controls etc etc etc. For example, I learnt that if you disconnect only the 4 wire touchscreen ribbon (wire that connects from the touch screen overlay to the touch screen circuit board), the steering wheel controls and air con simply stop working. I have no idea why and it makes no since to me, but this is what happens. Also, because of the fact that you can adjust many of the functions through this unit, ie. the sensitivity of the auto headlights, you may find that simply swapping units makes many of these features unusable or unstable.

Seriously though, even if it was possible, would you really think that it was worth $10,000??? Seems kinda crazy to me.

[V35_Paul]

Brian at Autotainment has done it. Perth

[moondandy]

@Alkatraz yeah thats what i thought, it will be very hard since all the system is fully integrated inside and will cost alot lot of $$. and i read lot of post by chriss about mod the v36 to have an aux garmin or external gps unit.. oh well, i guess i just need to deal with it at the moment. Its such a shame since the system actually really smart all headlight control, blluetooth, tv, the voice recognition (I speak japanese so it help me a bit). I used to own a w204 c class with COMAND system, even merc voice recognition and system is not even as good as the skyline. even only if somehow we can convert the tv without using the aux input.. thanks anyway guys..

@V35_Paul i'll be interested in what Autotainment can do, hmm will take a look at it..

[Chris Rogers]

Brian at Autotainment has done it. Perth

he's done what I do. hijack things.