COMAND Navigation seldom tells me where I really am.
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2014 CLS 550 & 2004 CL55
COMAND Navigation seldom tells me where I really am.
So I freaking love my car, 
BUT most of the time my COMAND Nav has me in the wrong part of town, or 3 miles in the wrong direction and now it looks like I'm in the ocean somewhere.
Background:
2004 CL55
Dealer sold me the car with a copied/pirated DVD
(only discovered this when I checked it because I got a message saying it had no disc.) And I used to get that message a lot, but off and on. So I was patient.
Works perfectly some of the time.
The official Merc car history print-out sheet thingy shows that the last owner had the entire command system replaced 3 times.
I have the official Bluetooth dongle for my DroidX2 (works great).
The Sirius Radio works perfectly.
So, I'm guessing that I have a glitch that the dealers have never found and just kept swapping out the head unit (making me think the problem isn't in the that part of the system at all).
What would make the GPS read the satellites wrong? Bad pick-up of some sort? Bad wire? I have no idea how it works, so my suggestions are probably ridiculous.
Anyone have the same problem and get it fixed? Ideas? What part of the car do I need to slap?
BUT most of the time my COMAND Nav has me in the wrong part of town, or 3 miles in the wrong direction and now it looks like I'm in the ocean somewhere.Background:
2004 CL55
Dealer sold me the car with a copied/pirated DVD
(only discovered this when I checked it because I got a message saying it had no disc.) And I used to get that message a lot, but off and on. So I was patient.Works perfectly some of the time.
The official Merc car history print-out sheet thingy shows that the last owner had the entire command system replaced 3 times.
I have the official Bluetooth dongle for my DroidX2 (works great).
The Sirius Radio works perfectly.
So, I'm guessing that I have a glitch that the dealers have never found and just kept swapping out the head unit (making me think the problem isn't in the that part of the system at all).
What would make the GPS read the satellites wrong? Bad pick-up of some sort? Bad wire? I have no idea how it works, so my suggestions are probably ridiculous.
Anyone have the same problem and get it fixed? Ideas? What part of the car do I need to slap?
Last edited by JHouse; Feb 18, 2012 at 05:38 PM.
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They were replacing the wrong unit. The dvd navigation drive is probably the issue and not the comand itself. First try a non pirated disk and then go from there.
R.K.
R.K.
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From: Houston Exburb-Richmond TX
2014 CLS 550 & 2004 CL55
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Yup.
R.K.
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From: Houston Exburb-Richmond TX
2014 CLS 550 & 2004 CL55
Dealer check out the COMAND system today. They said they reflashed it. Didn't charge me anything. They say everything points to a bad disc. The deal is that it worked perfectly and without a hitch for a long time after I bought the car. I had no idea it was a pirated copy. Then it just started acting up. That doesn't make much sense to me. Especially since it won't eject until to try it about 3 or 4 times. That's not how a DVD player is supposed to work. Also, it has be driving the the Galveston Bay. What could that have to do with the disk? Copy protection? Then why did it work perfectly for so long? Odd.
So I'm going to try another disk. I'll let you know.
So I'm going to try another disk. I'll let you know.
