Has anyone up dated their boom box & gps?

[lightnin]

​Has anyone done this yet? I understand the stealership will do the radio part for free but then you have to get raped by HD for the gps

 

[ultrafxr]

There are software updates (improvements, bug fixes, etc) to the Boom!Box. You can download and install yourself or your H-D dealer can do so. Many will do so for free but I've heard some instances where customers were charged. Ditto for the dealer database updates.

Now the GPS map updates are entirely different. As you said they must be purchased the same as you would have to do with your auto. There is a link on the owner's section of the H-D website for all these updates. The map updates send you to a website for 'NaviExtras.com' which is where you can purchase and download map updates for your GPS.

 

[ISP-FL]

I was probably a year away from needing to update my 2016's OEM GPS mapping. I had already decided I was going to go back to a TomTom or other aftermarket GPS with free updates and stop using the Harley GPS. There was just too many out dated features built in to the Harley's GPS to invest any addition money.

Now I don't have to make that decision since trading, unless in a couple years it needs it and Harley wants $200 or $300 for doing it.

 

[GARYD]

I kept my Garmin 550. I use it 95% of the time. The H-D unit is a POS. There have been 3 dealers that I can't get to by using the Harley unit(even when it was new). I can program the Garmin with all my vacation destinations in about a half hour - - almost 3 hours with the H-D unit. Plus I can add/subtract destinations in my motel room and not sitting out in the rain or blazing sun with the H-D unit. Plus FREE updates.

I haven't updated (paid to)my car GPS in 10 years and the Harley in 4 years - guess what? I still get to my destination without a problem(except for a few H-D dealers).

If I think I will have a problem finding a location, I'll take along the Garmin.

 

[ultrafxr]

I totally agree Gary. The H-D gps does not work well for the type of routing I / we prefer. If you just want to get from point A to point B then it's probably OK for the most part. But when I've constructed routes and imported them into the BB gps I find that it consistently does not follow them unless I input multiple (that means excessive imo) waypoints to keep it on the route I want. Not so with my Garmin RoadTech Zumo 590 (and my previous 660).

They would follow the constructed route pretty much 100% of the time. There have been a few times when my Garmin(s) have tried to 'shortcut' me to the next turn but nothing like what the BB gps does. It has put me on some 'shortcuts' to the next turn that were truly scary. And I had the calculation set for fastest time vs shortest distance.

How the heck it thinks getting on a pig trail for several miles will get me through the next turn faster than staying on the highway is beyond me. But it has proven itself multiple times that it will do just that if left to its own devices. I don't even turn the BB gps on anymore.

 

[GARYD]

I love how the H-D GPS "thinks" what a "scenic" route is or a "twisty" road is. It constantly sends us through residential streets.

I guess compared to super highways it is.

Have you ever tried finding a certain spot (for ABC points) on a highway?? Damn near impossible. 3 seconds on the Garmin.

It is a POS - period.

 

[hddocfl]

I have a 2019 Tri and the GPS is out of date already , My 2017 would take my home addy but the 2019 will not, I have been to the dealers and still no update for the GPS.

 

[MDO]

I have a 2019 Tri and the GPS is out of date already , My 2017 would take my home addy but the 2019 will not, I have been to the dealers and still no update for the GPS.

Congratulations on the new ride. I hope you stay on your dealer to correct the GPS problem.

It is not acceptable that a new unit they value at $1,900 is not working properly.

 

[ultrafxr]

I have a 2019 Tri and the GPS is out of date already , My 2017 would take my home addy but the 2019 will not, I have been to the dealers and still no update for the GPS.

Hmmm, something is definitely amiss. Doesn't make sense does it that the 2017 map data base could find your home addy but the 2019 cannot. Usually the problem is the road / street is new or been realigned and it can take quite a while for the 'new' map data base to be updated so as to be current with the actual conditions on the ground. But never seen one go backwards.

Has something changed in regard to your home addy? For example when Garmin gps units were becoming populay in the early 2000s I could not find my home addy even though I'd lived here for over 15 years. Turns out the reason was the map data base had me in a nearby town which is where my post office is located and my zip code referred to that post office even though I lived in the next door incorporated town. After several years they got the actual physical town location corrected and it could find my addy using my actual location. Just wondering if something similar might have happened in your case.

 

[GARYD]

I don't have enough hands to count how many "addresses" the H-D GPS can't find when I try to enter them. And they are not new locations. It's OK until I get to the actual address number. Then there's no comparable number to pick from.

That "infotainment unit" is just one reason why I will never buy another Harley. Main reason is I'm too old to buy another motorcycle now.

 

[TriTn]

I agree the GPS is a POS. Once somewhere in North Carolina it tried to tell me to take a left while crossing a long bridge over a really deep river gorge. As politely as I could I told it, "FU".

ETA: All I do is listen to music from a flash drive on the BB.

 

[Rogue1]

2019 Triglide. Downloaded and installed boombox update myself. Not going to pay to update GPS. Have had no problems so far.

 

[hddocfl]

Dealer says they are waiting on an update for the GPS, They did do a Boom Box update and did not change my GPS, I was told it is not the only one having problems. My street is 2 years old and my 2017 tri would take my home addy. It sucks as the 2017 would have it and not the new and improved radio.

 

[MDF48]

NA MY2018

The model year 2018 update is on the Naviextras site now. It is listed as NA-MY2018. I don't think it was there a couple weeks ago?

OOPS, my mistake, it was actually out in mid 2017 I believe! Sorry about that.

 

[ScottUSN]

I put

NA-MY2018 on my bike in October 2017. That's still the latest GPS file. I did the Boom updates (Boom Stereo and Dealership locations) last week; no problems.​

 

[MDF48]

Sorry about that.

I put

NA-MY2018 on my bike in October 2017. That's still the latest GPS file. I did the Boom updates (Boom Stereo and Dealership locations) last week; no problems.​

You are right, my mistake. I looked at it wrong and thought it said 2019, hoping in my mind it was. I think it came out in mid 2017 or so.

 

[FuzzyWuzHe]

I kept my Garmin 550.If I think I will have a problem finding a location, I'll take along the Garmin.

My 06 Wing has Navi built in, I will still bring my Garmin 550 ... works so well, easy, and lifetime map updates.

 

[hddocfl]

Had the lastest and greatest download for the radio and GPS so they say . Still will not take my home addy. 2019 Tri.