if you suck with directions like me and have the money, get it

 

if i did it over again, i'd get the nav. looks ten times better and supposedly the stock nav has integrated controls for stuff in the car, such as climate control.

 

"The Mitsubishi Electric navigation system in the 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer ranks highest in customer satisfaction with factory-installed navigation systems, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Navigation Usage and Satisfaction Study...This marks the first time since the inception of the study that a system supplied to a non-premium model has ranked highest."

http://www.jdpower.com/corporate/new...spx?ID=2008237

It's an impressive factory navigation, it looks and performs great.

 

Ya, def look into non-OEM units. You can get all the features the Mitsu unit has plus more for the same price, and it'll work with the rest of the factory setup. Shop around a bit, figure out what you want out of the unit. Any local shop should be able to install aftermarket stuff with no trouble.

If you're looking at spending top dollar, check out the Kenwood Excelon DNX9140. It a 7" screen, 30gb drive, two usb and AV ports, bluetooth, DVD player, true 5.1 DSP sound processing, and Garmin's GPS GUI. It can tune Sirius and XM sat radio. If you have a smartphone, you can stream internet radio to you car speakers Big Last.fm fan here! Thats about $1700. You get a lot more than the $2200 OEM unit!

You can get units similar to the OEM one, feature wise, for under $800 installed.

 

**** aftermarket stereos. OEM 4 LIFE YO!

 

heck I use nav on my clly for 10 bucks a month giving not as cool looking put it has more info and realtime traffice that way you can get a fp red and other goodies for your 2k

 

I just checked and it's $1943 there... must of been a special or something.....

 

Do do it. The NAV Equipped Rockford stereo sounds weak. You will not be able to "crank" out the tunes.

 

silly question that i think i know the answer to but i will ask anyway:

does the the nav in the evo, without the sss package, have an aux in for an ipod or something? is it a minijack or rca? where is it located? can someone show me a picture of it if it exists? thanks

 

If you have the setting just right the stock SSS sound systems sounds great.Most aftermarket NAVI units have more features and are cheaper than the OEM NAVI. I have the Kenwood Excelon DNX8120 i believe and it is great.You can even use the stock amp with this unit. If you disconnect the battery for any reason the stock amp will default to off.There is a post on this already...Just search for it.I think it is in the How TO section.

 

with the going rates on ebay i think just buying it second hand and having someone install it might be more cost efficient