navigation questions

[vortechstang]

My wife's '05 Navigator came with every option except navigation. I have been looking to add it. I want whatever I install to look factory. I was looking at this: Crutchfield: Car Audio, Home Theater, Speakers, Home Electronics (http://www.crutchfield.com/S-P4G8P7c...d3&cc=01&wm=cl) , but was told that if I remove the factory headunit, the factory overhead dvd is disabled. I don't want to go with a portable navigation unit, but may just have to. Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?

[wmartinlsmith]

should have went shopping black friday when they were 120-150 at radioshack... > than 1000$+ factory looking install.....

[TIM TIM TIM]

keep looking around, im not SURE, but most cars they end up making adapters and stuff that will allow you to keep that. the link you posted just took us to crutchfield, didnt show the unit. If its a 2din unit then get a decent one with an output and i would assume that you could hook the output to the overhead. I really dont KNOW though, well see what the guys on here stay

[vortechstang]

Oh, sorry about the link. The unit I am looking at is the Pioneer AVIC-D3. I guess I am just going to have to get another overhead monitor to replace the factory one. I just didn't want to have to do that. I wanted it all factory looking.

[MCOR]

No OEM integration harnesses for Navigators/Expeditions produced before 2006. We usually just replace the small factory flip down with the 10.4" unit. Just did a 2004 last week-AVIC-D3, backup camera, steering wheel remote control integration, 10.4" aftermarket flip down replacement, all for $1600 installed. I think that isn't bad money for such a large upgrade (seeing as how you couldn't even get decent modbile DDIN navigation for under $2k two years ago, much less the rest of the goodies) All done in 4 hours. Customer was much happier with this system than with the factory system. I know of no other option. The factory RSE (Rear Seat Entertainment) system uses only a two channel output-left and right. We have tried to split it into RCA's and input into the aftermarket stereo but the sound is muffled/garbled at best. Even tried to split it into an infared transmitter for use in just headphones-sounds even worse. PAC tells me that Ford used to have some funky protocol that Visteon developed and that it wasn't worth their while to reverse engineer it when most people want to upgrade to a larger screen anyway. Whatever....