[RezzZ]

Was your last update loaded from DVDs? If you have a pre-2015 with the RTI Navigation system car you can have a software update loaded for the Nav system that allows it to use the free Sensus Connect (MCA) updates from Volvo's website and load them from a USB stick.

The reason the RTI maps don't show updates after 2016 is because Here and Volvo withdrew support for further DVD-based updates. That is why the Nas software update for RTI cars to use the USB map updates was eventually released.

yes, last update was from DVDs. I have a 2013 model V40 and I just got the software updated to install updates over USB (license key nag has been removed). But when I select my V40 2013 when looking for map updates I only get the 2016 maps from Europe. So I can just download and install the MCA updates now?

 

[Frank Ivar Hætta Lie]

yes, last update was from DVDs. I have a 2013 model V40 and I just got the software updated to install updates over USB (license key nag has been removed). But when I select my V40 2013 when looking for map updates I only get the 2016 maps from Europe. So I can just download and install the MCA updates now?

I really hope you can do that.. Just gonna try it now..
Because with this lovely gouverment we had in Norway for the past 4 years, we got a BUNCH of new roads <3

 

[Frank Ivar Hætta Lie]

Didn't work -.-

 

[RezzZ]

Didn't work -.-

indeed, too bad. no update recognized when inserting the MCA update.. so latest update for my v40 (2013) is still from 2016

 

[HPsauce]

I thought they updated these maps every 3 months but the latest for my 2016 Sensus Navigation is still May 2017....


I'm driving into East Central London (Shoreditch) tomorrow and not much has changed there in a while to be fair.
(Except the names of the local secondary school, but that's a whole different story! :surprise: )

 

[anixie]

Four letters (and I am repeating myself) WAZE

 

[HPsauce]

Each to their own but IMHO a properly-calibrated integrated car SatNav beats any smartphone app hands-down.


Even my old Audi with a nearly 20-year-old system (RNS-D) and 2013 maps is pretty good, just doesn't do real-time traffic correction, only basic TMC warnings.

 

[Brigstowe]

Maps are not necessarily updated every 3 months. Volvo say 1 - 4 times per year, not quite the same.

 

[Frank Ivar Hætta Lie]

But 1-4 times a year hasn't really happened. Sent an email to volvo Norway earlyer this week about any planned updates.. No respond yet :/

 

[ddclutch]

My V40 is an early MY2014. It recognises a downloaded European maps data release on a 32GB USB stick, showing the map version and release date but when I press OK to load the maps it then asks for the licence key.
I understand from earlier comments on this discussion that this was a "hang over" from the CD entry system althoug my car is clearly a Nav Sensus USB loading system. Something of a hybrid then prior to the 2015 Nav Sensus Connect version release.
I went to a Volvo dealership who quoted me £99 for a system upgrade, although as far as I understand this is nothing more than to permanantly disable the request for a licence code. Probably just adjustment of a single line of software code! It would be easier and cheaper to give me a licence code to write into the back of my Driver's Handbook!

Is there a work around for this problem that desn't involve paying out £100

 

[HPsauce]

I do remember reading somewhere that Volvo updated the system so that instead of needing the dealer to apply map updates you could download them yourself. To do so on cars built with the older system needed a software update, which I guess is what they're quoting you for.


Might be worth ringing a couple of other dealers to see what they say about the price.

 

[HPsauce]

Might be worth ringing a couple of other dealers to see what they say about the price.

Having a little rummage online I found someone who got it discounted to £85 and another managed £75. So that's probably about as low as you can go.
(Mill Newcastle were mentioned, no idea if that's near you)

 

[ddclutch]

I do remember reading somewhere that Volvo updated the system so that instead of needing the dealer to apply map updates you could download them yourself. To do so on cars built with the older system needed a software update, which I guess is what they're quoting you for..

Yes, that's my understanding. Its just that earlier (last year!) on this discussion it is said that the software update simply removes the request for a licence code and makes no other alterations It does seem excessive to pay up £99 just for that!:surprise:

 

[stuart s]

I do remember reading somewhere that Volvo updated the system so that instead of needing the dealer to apply map updates you could download them yourself. To do so on cars built with the older system needed a software update, which I guess is what they're quoting you for.


Might be worth ringing a couple of other dealers to see what they say about the price.

Mine cost £97 back in March.
2 off software download control modules, ITP removed, IAM upgrade, loan car insurance.
Download failed twice, so they kept my car overnight to try again the next day after contacting Volvo.
Went in the next day, and they lent me one of the managers cars to get home, so I wasn't hanging about all day, he lived in Wakefield so he dropped off my car at home that evening.

 

[RezzZ]

in the NL I only payed 50 euros (my original dealer) to have the license nag removed.

unfortunately the last maps are (like for all with RTI navi) from 2016 which means some major changes around that time are not available yet.

 

[peter.s]

in the NL I only payed 50 euros (my original dealer) to have the license nag removed.

unfortunately the last maps are (like for all with RTI navi) from 2016 which means some major changes around that time are not available yet.

Has anyone tried downloading and installing the "Sensus Navigation" map software in a car specified to take the "Sensus" software?

 

[RezzZ]

Has anyone tried downloading and installing the "Sensus Navigation" map software in a car specified to take the "Sensus" software?

I tried installing the sensus map updates for V40's that are from 2014+, the usb stick is not detected as updated.
I read that all volvo cars from 2014 and up have lifetime map updates for free... might be that we are just out of luck with a V40 from 2013.

 

[buzby]

I tried installing the sensus map updates for V40's that are from 2014+, the usb stick is not detected as updated.
I read that all volvo cars from 2014 and up have lifetime map updates for free... might be that we are just out of luck with a V40 from 2013.

The IAM software update to allow the maps to be updated via USB works - plenty of people with pre-MY14.5 V40s and S60s have had it doen in the UK. The problem is finding a dealer with a tech that knows their way around the Volvo software update catalogue to find it.

 

[Frank Ivar Hætta Lie]

Volvo Car Norway Hei Frank. Det er dessverre problemer med å ta frem elektroniske kart til de bilene som tidligere hadde DVD plater, så neste kartoppdatering er estimert til midten av 2018.
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Hi Frank. Unfortinatly there are some problems with getting out maps for the cars that had DVD updates earlyer, so next update is estimated to mid 2018.

 

[RezzZ]

The IAM software update to allow the maps to be updated via USB works - plenty of people with pre-MY14.5 V40s and S60s have had it doen in the UK. The problem is finding a dealer with a tech that knows their way around the Volvo software update catalogue to find it.

I know it works, because 2015 maps were the last I received on DVD. I installed the 2016 maps via usb last week, thanks to the IAM sotware update but the map updates for post-MY14.5 (or is it post 15.5?) are labeled differently, RTI vs MCA and I tried the MCA updates and they are not detected. Folder/File-structure is also completely so makes sense.

Btw, today I noticed that the map updates for V40s from 2014 are also only 2016 (and I'm almost positive that previously I could download the MCA 2017 updated maps for that car...)