GPSOZ

Having 2 new vehicles that both needed GPS Bluetooth and reversing cameras I (foolishly with the benefit of hindsight) decided, following the advice of a fellow X-Trail owner, to go down the cheap eBay VMS look alike path as there was a significant cost saving - well folks I feel like an idiot.

The 2 units arrived from an eBay seller based in Melbourne, the first had a cracked screen so none of the touch screen functions worked and it was not a simple plug in and go as I later experienced with the VMS, in fact it was too deep for my 2008 D40 Navara so it was off to see Brian (with my tail between my legs) and in less than 20 minutes I had the VMS unit installed (hope you didn't mind me sitting outside the shop - it only took minutes for me to screw it in and plug it into the harness) and I was on my way home.

The faulty unit was dispatched to its seller and the second unit fitted in the X-Trail fine, the navigation side of things appears to be a cut down version of the software in the VMS units but there is where the joy ended. 2 reversing cameras later I still have no functioning reversing camera, the radio reception starts to get useless at St Marys, bad news when you travel for out to Penrith each day and the sound quality for the iPod connection is worse that useless. If the Bluetooth worked it might be tolerable but the 2nd cheap box is going the same direction as the first.

Costing in the time I spent on trying to get these units going, the fact that in neither vehicle it was a straight plug and play option, and the loss of steering wheel control on the X-Trail (which my wife constantly reminds me of) I would have been much better off buying the genuine article in the first place for both vehicles.

Guess who'll be visiting next Saturday Brian!

In Short if you are thinking of buying a copy of the VMS unit DON'T it isn't worth the heartache

What Model number are your "Units"