That's been proven before, however you cannot simply install the programming onto the modules outside of the factory or as a service part to the car whose vin had navigation.

The only way to do it so far is as stated requires taking the functioning modules from a wrecked car rather than having a dealer install the software.

 

Yeah... That's exactly what I just said?

 

At first I thought this was converting non-MFT to MFT. It was confusing me greatly but I now understand... I didn't even know you can get MFT without nav.

Cool post.

 

woops! i should have been more clear about that. my bad!

yeah there are two types of MFT. the one without nav (the one i had) says "information" in the top right corner of the screen, whereas one with nav will say "navigation"

 

That info tab seems cool. I'd prefer it over the never used/redundant climate control(s).

 

ditto, the climate controls are really dumb. So much faster to just use the actual knobs.

 

Don't listen to people who say it cant be done, it can and very easily. I have posted a quick video of what I did but basically all you need to do is find an APIM from a scrapped ford focus that had navigation, swap out your old APIM with the new one and VOILA! you have navigation! [cheers]

This was first reported years ago.

http://www.focusfanatics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=281448&page=3

 

Yes, it was. Yet every other day there is someone asking if it can be done, so I thought I would be a bit more clear than others and repost it. Never said I was the first to do it.

 

So if you are at the junkyard, how do you tell if it has navigation on it or not? I know how to tell if the car is on, but most junkyards don't have batteries in their cars they are parting out.

 

Take the VIN and use this website:
http://www.inventory.ford.com/services/inventory/WindowSticker.pdf?vin=YOUR_VIN_HERE

Replace YOUR_VIN_HERE with the actual VIN. Read the sheet.

 

I don't get the point of going through all this trouble, or paying $795 to Ford to begin with, when Google Maps on a smartphone gets the job done just fine. Plus Google Maps is always updated; permanent nav requires expensive periodic updates. [dunno]

 

Did you see that they are now giving out free keys for Google Earth Pro?

http://google-latlong.blogspot.de/2015/01/google-earth-pro-is-now-free.html

 

glad to see you finally got it working!

 

I need to find a totaled focus!

 

yep, i used that ford sight to check the vin and make sure it had nav.

i used to use my phone for nav as well, but its just so sloppy and unsafe. This way the nav is built into my car and i can set it and forget it. The voice control works great too. honestly I dont use my phone nav anymore and can focus on using my phone as....a phone.

And really i found apims all over the place from ebay or car-part.com for as little as 125 bucks. i think mine was 200. so i agree 795 is way too much, but if you are spending that much to retrofit your car, you are doing something very wrong. lol

 

Pretty sure the Google Maps app has voice control as well, though I haven't played with it.

So as little as $125 to retrofit, but still over $100 every time you want to update your maps? At least for my Durango it's like $150 for a map update...

 

you can buy ford sd map cards on ebay for as little as 15 bucks depending on the year. im currently running the a4, and the a6 just came out. honestly i havent seen a problem with the a4 maps at all yet. ill probably get an A5 sometime later in the year and probably get it for 20 30 bucks.

there is just no comparison when talking about oem built in nav and smartphones/stand alone units. there is something just so right about having it built in to the car with a big beautiful display and connected to all the cars systems.

 

I have a sealed A5 chip if anyone wants to buy it. Just had bought the A5 chip in Dec for the '12 , the car was totaled last week, so I used it in the new '14 one. Kept the original sealed from the 2014

 

what would you want for it?

 

After checking eBay, most likely will settle on $50, but I just found my receipt from the dealer - so I'm going to check and see if they'll let me return it for the A6 first

 

let me know if you drop that to 25. hahah

 

Can anyone tell me the part number for this?

 

From my research I started 2 days ago, there's no part number associated with the navigation enabled or disabled. If I understood correctly, there's 4 revisions out there of the APIM/screen (for the Focus).

Also, the Focus, C-MAX and Escape all share the same hardware (C-MAX 2012-2013-2014, Focus 2012-2013-2014, Escape 2013-2014).
But, what I didn't confirm is, are they sharing the same software? I think yes, but I can't confirm.

Focus: BM5T-18B955-FA to FD ... FA and FB are from 2012, FD is from 2013 and 2014. I don't know where FC is but it may be on a 2012 or batch 1 of 2013.
Escape: CJ5T-18B955-FA to FC ... FC is from a 2013 so I assume 2014 has the same part #.
C-MAX: Unknown Yet

You need to make sure the car it was pulled from had the navigation enabled from the factory. In order to check that out, ask for the VIN and check the window sticker: http://researchmaniacs.com/VIN-Number-Lookup/WindowSticker/Ford.html

 

I am interested if anyone has a apim with nav shoot me a pm!

 

Don't know where my insurance is taking it, but my '12 had NAV. And it's now sitting in a scrap yard somewhere in SoCal

 

Sounds intriguing. Been wondering if this could be done since I bought mine 3 1/2 years ago. Silly question, though: where the hell is the APIM? I'm not a modder by any means (I mean, I just swapped out my stock bulbs with Pilot LEDs from Wal-Mart, but that's it), so I have no clue how much digging it would take to extract this thing from a junked car, let alone how much I'd have to dig into my own car to perform the swap. Video tutorial?

 

Ok. I just finished doing the swap. It worked like a charm.

Problem I faced:
- the big connector behind the screen is a pain in the a*s to remove. solution: between the gray plastic, there's a push-pin. push it and pull the gray plastic toward the right of the screen (like a lever)
- the connector attached to the hazard/door lock was stuck there so I had to work in a very tiny space - it can be done.

Now, for people asking where to get a unit with nav, there's a supplier in Montreal who has 3 of them in stock (2x 2012 and 1x 2014): 450 436-2441. They don't speak english very well, but if you speak french, you are good to go. They offer 1 year warranty. Once the bill is paid, bear in mind that there's no return.

If you need help, I can be the middle man.

 

Very interested. I don't speak French, so I'd need a middle man.

 

a new video for you guys! just some little things i noticed with the nav system. click 720p because i recorded it in 60fps, let me know if it works!

http://youtu.be/CKUkJZUBeeI

 

I have a 2014 with the back-up camera built in, I know some of the 12's didn't come with back-up camera, does in matter which year screen I buy??

 

I did this last year, but I bought the whole nav/radio unit from a junk yard on ebay and swapped it out. I bought one the seller claimed had nav but I got it and it was the same part # as my regular MFT unit, so I returned it.

I found a different one and made sure to ask for the VIN and confirmed the car had nav on ETIS before I bought it. Love having the factory setup.

 

According to Google $189 CAD works out to $150 USD. Much more reasonable. Thanks for the tip. Good info in this thread.