Hi!
Has anyone installed a different system. Is it even possible?

 

Nope. Didn't want to mess with that headache.

 

I'm not sure but I'm thinking about having the conversation with my car stereo place. The nav system + horrible bluetooth interaction of the default infotainment system is really hurting my enjoyment of the car (and getting me lost and making me late to stuff pretty regularly).

 

Totally agree its a POS

 

Are you willing to lose everything displayed on the screen? Replace it with what? An iPad? How would you customize dynamic mode just for an instance?

This wouldn't be a "headache", it would be impossible. Not even to mention the display is a touchscreen.

 

it is possible but you gonna lose lots of functionality dynamic control being one of them, hopefully the new Infotainment system that they showed up can be retrofitted in the old ones.

 

Why not just mount your phone near it. Its not ideal but I see it as an excellent workaround. I use Waze (excellent app, remembers when I'm going home/work and preloads it, re-routes me around traffic) and the Escort Live apps, plus I see who's calling, and it has my music (my own list or Pandora). Use the infotainment center for the minimal needs.

It works!

 

+1

 

It's not necessarily an either or situation. It should be possible to have two sources of info going to the screen (one the factory infotainment and the other a third party) and have a switch which controls which signal goes to the display and back. Like a KVM, but for a car.

If it doesn't exist already maybe I should build it.

 

I don't mount my phone for the most petty reason imaginable. I think it looks bad. Aside from that, yes, it is superior in all aspects.

 

Or that you want to control the Jags functions via phone? or that the GUI on the Jag screen is to slow or complicated?

What is the specific goal? Its all over the place as of now.

If your idea was to remove the infotainment, thats out.

If you want to see your phone on the display that can be done with say NAVTV.

I don't see any possible way to replace the System with aftermarket because you'd lose everything including climate, Dynamic adjustments, etc. even if you were to somehow replace the sound system.

 

That's not gonna be possible, kinda is but it's not, see a on a KVM you have 2 different system doing they own you are just switching monitor and keyboard input from one, in a car you got the hardware out put and headunit is processing it and send commands now if you hook it up to two headunit you gonna have one massed up car now where you gonna put the second headunit, it won't fit anywhere in the dash that's for sure,

 

i'd like to see jag put the new 10" screen in the f-type, but not sure it will physically fit inside the console

if so, a retrofit is definitely on the cards, that system is arguably the best on the market

 

I basically just find the current system outdated. I was in an M4 last week and its far superior ( to be fair this system was hacked to add features like messaging). Great points about losing the functionality( like dynamic etc).
I would mostly like to send and receive texts, right now I use my phone and "hey siri" which is fine. I like the 10" retrofit idea !

 

I'm making a couple assumptions here for this to be feasible. Any of these might not be true.

1. The screen and controls while wired to the brains of the factory head unit are not in fact integrated with it.

2. There exists a product on the market which is an aftermarket headunit that can or can be easily modified to use an external display and touch-screen.

If either of those are false the whole idea becomes infeasible. I'll chat with my stereo guy next week to see.

 

Screen are integrated with the headunit, controls are not but you probably need a separate part to make them functional with the new headunit, there are screen on the market but not to be used as someone need take both of the screen off the headunits make a custom controller and wire both of them to same lcd

 

Yeah, that's kinda what I feared. Sounds like it isn't feasible for a one-off. If there was a lot of interest I'd put a solution together along with a couple EE friends and sell it, but I can't imagine we'd sell more than about 5 units. :-p That's uh..several orders of magnitude too small to be worth it.

 

These interfaces are always obsolete a year or so after they show up. There are never any really good aftermarket solutions and they too become obsolete. When the manufacturer puts a new interface in a new model year, you can always buy a new car.
I spent a fortune on my sailboat always upgrading to the latest Raymarine interface. I never could find a way to do that with my cars and I have just learned to live with what is there. While I enjoy having technology at my fingertips, the real enjoyment is driving the car.
Larry

 

In general what you are saying is true, but I don't think we should excuse how bad the system in the F-Type is. It isn't obsolete after a year or so. It would have been obsolete in a high-end car 7 or more years ago.

My 4 year older car that cost less than half as much had a system that was much much better.

 

f type interface is horrible its laggy outdated, but not the point of this topic dont know what jag have done to they system but for my porsche you needed a $750 part just to be able to connect the speaker and amp to head unit since porsche use most for connection,
so its gonna cost a lot i say somewhere around 10k for all the part and installation wich is gonna take sometimes, and aftermarket headunit aren't that great the screen quality isn't all that good, a 5.1 inch phone have a 2k screen (yes ik you watch movie and sh*t with your phone not your car head unit) but at least put a 1080p screen on it so the text and icons it look decent, the best thing jag can do for next year is android auto, apple car play and screen mirroring not the version that they have now that its only few chosen app