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Just curious. Will an SD card purchased from a third party include updates? If the higher priced card at the dealer includes updates, it may be as good a deal as an aftermarket card that doesn't include any updates. Or does any option include updates. My 2016 had three years, I'm not familiar with the 2021 setup.
Just bought a nav SD card from NavKings on eBay for $65. Booted right up. I'll take it back out today and load it up on Toolbox and see if it has any updates. NavKings purports that this is a "real" Mazda SD card removed from a rental fleet and not a copy.
As previously stated, the Mazda navigation sucks. Android Auto is far better and my main navigation app. However, for $65, the SD card was a good backup for when there's no cell reception and I forgot to download the offline maps for Google Maps.
In that case, I'd definitely go with the cheaper option. For the price of the car, it is a chintzy of Mazda to charge extra for it. I live in a part of the country where cell phone reception is spotty. GPS that does not rely on a cell phone signal is a must here, which makes some of the other options less useful.
02-18-2021, 02:47 PM
