2018 Head Unit upgrade

[Surgical Precision]

I just had the kenwood wireless car play installed on my 2019. Great upgrade! I have the OEM unit available cheap.

Did you lose the compass in the dash with this upgrade? Did you keep Sirius XM radio?

 

[phillyd2]

I have the version of this head unit without the GPS navigation on order. I’ll be installing it later this week.

Honestly, I’m so tired of built in GPS based systems that suck. The Sync 3 system in my ‘17 F150 was useless. The Entune system in my ‘19 4Runner doesn’t understand most of my voice command navigation searches. Carplay with Apple maps and Siri or Google maps work perfectly. I ended up never using the nav system in the Ford and I’m starting to really hate the Entune system in the Runner.

I’m passing on the Kenwood unit with the built in Garmin GPS because if it’s anything like my Garmin hiking handheld or the Marine GPS on my boat I’ll just be annoyed. Apple or Android Phone based UI seems to always be so much more intuitive and effective than everything else on the market.

Hoping the wireless Carplay is as seamless as the reviews are reporting. I’ll post my experience once the unit is up and running.

Good luck. I’m looking forward to your impressions.

I am opposite of you. I always get the onboard gps even if it just for backup since I’ve been to enough places without good service.

And I just upgraded my 16 F250 from MyTouch to Sync 3 with NAV and Apple CarPlay and am happy with the results.

Although I’ve been using CarPlay over 90% of the time now.