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Has any one managed to successfully update their sat nav since purchase?

How expensive is it?  or are you better off using google maps on mobile?

 

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Not specifically on an Auris, but I have on an Avensis, C-HR and Corolla at various times with no particular problems. The cheapest way is often to buy an update code from eBay for about £35-40. You are only buying the licence code, the update files still come from the official Toyota servers as normal in my experience.

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I bought the aforementioned licence in eBay for about £30 two months ago.

I'm very happy, take a look at this:

 

 

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I updated my Touch 2 Go a few days ago for £35 from eBay and it works a treat 

Toyota wanted £119 for the same update 

eBay seller was “vehicle-tech”.  Very clear instructions how to do it as well 

 

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On 10/4/2024 at 1:00 PM, yossarian247 said:

Not specifically on an Auris, but I have on an Avensis, C-HR and Corolla at various times with no particular problems. The cheapest way is often to buy an update code from Ebay for about £35-40. You are only buying the licence code, the update files still come from the official Toyota servers as normal in my experience.

You actually aren't buying a genuine licence code, you are buying a counterfeit from somebody who has cracked the authentication code generation sequence.

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30 minutes ago, Heidfirst said:

You actually aren't buying a genuine licence code, you are buying a counterfeit from somebody who has cracked the authentication code generation sequence.

You are probably correct but it saves you a fortune nonetheless!

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16 hours ago, Heidfirst said:

You actually aren't buying a genuine licence code, you are buying a counterfeit from somebody who has cracked the authentication code generation sequence.

Yes I'd guessed that was probably the case. The main reason I bought one for the Avensis via eBay was simply that Toyota had stopped selling updates for that particular satnav via their website. The only official way to get a map update for the Avensis then was to take the car to a main dealer and pay them a labour charge to install it. Bizarrely though the update files are clearly still being made available for download on Toyota's servers, so why don't they allow people to buy them online officially? I gather it was due to some issue with the agreement between Toyota and the original provider of the updates coming to an end. Nevertheless there was no way I going to pay a dealer a large amount of money to do something I could do myself at home, so I went via the eBay route. 

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I don't know when you bought your Avensis update & how old the car was at the time but I can still buy updates for my 7 year old car (& the system is probably 2 years older than that, iirc Toyota keeps making updates available for ~12 or 13 years).

Did your car have the HDD system as that's the only 1 that I recall that needed dealers to do rather than being able to do yourself?

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28 minutes ago, Heidfirst said:

I don't know when you bought your Avensis update & how old the car was at the time but I can still buy updates for my 7 year old car (& the system is probably 2 years older than that, iirc Toyota keeps making updates available for ~12 or 13 years).

Did your car have the HDD system as that's the only 1 that I recall that needed dealers to do rather than being able to do yourself?

It was a 2012 Avensis with the original 'Touch and Go' setup. Toyota stopped making online updates available for those systems around early 2021. From that point onwards the updates no longer showed in the E Store and the only official way to get them was by taking the car to a dealer. Before that that I'd successfully bought and installed official updates from the Toyota website on a couple of occasions.

The annoying thing is, the updates are clearly still being produced and uploaded to a server, it's just that the only official way to purchase them now is physically through a dealer. If you want to get them online you still can but only via a (probably dodgy) eBay source!

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eBay and online source cost about 30£ and they are identical than the one we get from Dealership. 

I bought 2x 2018 and 2021 maps from different sellers. Everything works 

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