Steps on Updating Your BMW Navigation DVD

If you BMW is more than one or two year old, it might be the time to update your BMW navigation DVD, especially for the software. The facts that BMW updates with its software every three months by adding new restaurants, hotels, streets and points of interest. Etc. if your driving are much more depending on the car navigation to guide your around traffic jams, you'd better to update BMW navigation software every year.

To update BMW navigation DVD you will need:
• A newly updated BMW disc
• BMW installation manual - different BMWs have different ways of opening the DVD drive but most cars have the drive right in or behind the radio.

Step 1:
Purchase the BMW navigation software. As we mentioned above, BMW releases a new navigation disc every three months. The discs are updated with such items as tourist information, any road changes (newly opened or recently closed roads), locations of parking lots or garages, restaurants, airports, etc. If you tend to be a homebody and rarely explore outlying areas, you might not need to upgrade your BMW navigation software every year. Older BMW car DVD are CD based while those produced after 2002 are DVD based so make sure you purchase the right media for updating of your GPS system. Regardless, whenever you want to update the GPS, you can obtain the or CD at BMW.com.

Step 2:
Locate your BMW car manual and find out how to open the CD/DVD drive. The CD or DVD navigation discs are stored in a drive behind the radio. There will be a button on the radio for either 'eject' or 'open' which you will need to press in order to load the new disc.


Step 3:
Abandon your oldBMW navigation DVD disc. After the drive is open, eject the old disc (if there is one - the newer cars might have the GPS information stored on a computer drive so there may not be a disc. If there is a disc, eject it, and insert the new CD or DVD disc. That's all there is to updating your BMW navigation DVD!