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Originally Posted by KindaOrange
Is the 2019 map update compatible with 2018 cars? My maps are just old these days... If not, is there another method to get the most recent 2018 update?
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No, they are incompatible. 2019+ uses MyLink 3.0 and 2016-2018 updates are for the older MyLink 2.5 version. These are vastly different software releases all the way down to the languages and the platform used.
The most recent map update for 2018 cars is from 2023, and
Here Technologies are no longer willing to sell it.
I still have my 2023 map update USB that I bought last year, but it's coded to the VIN, so now, after I installed it on my car, it's the "hackers only" edition
. The encryption looks somewhat simplistic at first sight, but who knows, it may have more layers than I had time to mess around with it.
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Originally Posted by James Montigny
I haven't updated my maps in a few years, so I went to the GM website to see how much they charge today. Mostly for HUD speed limit updates.
"There are no longer map updates available for purchase for your navigation system via this webstore or at GM dealerships. Thank you"
Same warning when I try to get maps for my 2018 Escalade.
Oh well .. Google maps works better for me anyway.
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Yup, no more updates for 2018 and below. I asked them what the plan was via their contact form last week, no response so far, but the most I expect is a "never" in cringeworthy corporatespeak. I think their strategy is a yearly map update cadence for 5 years after a newer platform becomes avaiable, then dumping owners who have older vehicles.
Since the marginal cost of translating the new map data (that they must purchase anyway for the newer platforms) to older platforms is near zero, not providing the owners of these older vehicles with map updates for 20 or 15 or at least 10 years is a just another exercise in meaningless pennypinching, par for the course with any established US automaker.