Quote Originally Posted by flapuit View Post
You have to have option 355 or [Only registered and activated users can see links. ].

Something else and probably too simple; did anyone run a file compare to see the differences between to virgin cards with the same version/maps on it? Wondering if all files are exactly the same...
I think it was mentioned in earlier posts when they compared the two versions of the card (before and after). The install files are removed after the card is used to install the nav. So far everything is pointing to the nav being locked to the CID of the card as of right now seems unbreakable. I have seen other forums (mazda, Subaru, etc) where they have the same issue with their garmin nav's, and so far no solution on either. There was something on a mazda forum where a couple of guys came up with a solution but never shared it (according to them); so I have to assume that at the moment, there is no solution without some serious programming skills.

But, I am pretty certain, that if you take a virgin card and make a raw clone of it, that the clone can be reused in a different car. If you mate the original card to a car, the install files are wiped and the card becomes unusable in another vehicle, however, if you copy over the raw clone image back onto the used (original) card, then you can use it in a different vehicle again. It would be nice to see if someone could try that and prove this to be the case.

Also, selling the original nav at $500+ is just ridiculous. Someone somewhere, eventually, will break the encryption, one way or another.