Certain features on our vehicles allow you to benefit from significant driving comfort! Indeed, having a GPS built in in your car enables you to stay centered on the road while driving to an unknown place without any problems. Nevertheless the road network is regularly changing, it is therefore necessary to update the GPS of your Volkswagen Eos , and this is precisely what we will discover in this article. To do so, first we will review the different attributes of the integrated GPS for cars, and secondly, how to update the GPS of a Volkswagen Eos .

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How does onboard GPS work in a Volkswagen Eos

In this part we will learn how the GPS of a Volkswagen Eos works and what are the different sort of GPS.

The advantages of an integrated GPS?

A built-in GPS provides many features that a smartphone GPS or Tomtom-type GPS will not be able to give you. Below is a list of the advantages of these devices:

  • The point that it is built in straight into the dashboard of your Volkswagen Eos makes it difficult to steal the GPS from your car.
  • Linked with your car’s radio antenna, the GPS will have better reception than any kind of GPS you could use.
  • It is frequently, in accordance with the year, linked to steering wheel voice commands, which enables you to use it without taking your hands off the wheel and as a result to drive more safely.
  • The screen is in many instances much larger than a GPS on a smartphone or a nomadic type, so the information is more readable.
  • Associated with your sound system, it can be coupled to music and only happen when you change direction, which limits the risk of you going off course as much as possible.

The different sort of GPS for Volkswagen Eos

After having discovered the positive aspects and before explaining to you how to update the GPS of your Volkswagen Eos , we will fairly quickly explain the different kind of built-in GPS that exist for a Volkswagen Eos, here they are:

  • The traditional GPS: We call traditional GPS the models that equip recent cars, they are linked to a complete multimedia system and are equipped with a touch screen.
  • The old GPS: These GPS were the first generations, the screen is only used for navigation and they are updated with a USB stick or SD card. These systems, nevertheless simple to use and have a lower screen quality, you’ll experience like you’re watching a TV from the 90’s.
  • GPS Android Auto or Apple CarPlay: At last, last kind of GPS, on the latest vehicles it is possible to have a system including Android or Apple, these systems are autonomous and you use the native applications of one of the two operating systems. They are very responsive and comfortable to use.

How do I update the GPS on a Volkswagen Eos?

We will now proceed to the part you are most interested in, how to update the GPS of your Volkswagen Eos? To achieve this, we will see for each kind of GPS how the process of updating the cartography, the signalling and the software is done.

Updating old GPS on Volkswagen Eos

The old GPS systems present on the Volkswagen Eos until the years 2000/2005, these GPS use a particular software for the brand and the approach to update this GPS on a Volkswagen Eos is to go to the car dealership who will handle it, for a 50 euros in most cases.

Updating the GPS of Volkswagen Eos by SD or USB

This kind of GPS is most general on cars that are about ten years old. Most of the car companies have called upon the company “HERE navigation” and you will have to go to their site to download the map update of your GPS, then copy it to a USB key or SD card depending on the connectors available on your model and do the update straight through the menu of your integrated GPS.

Automatic GPS update

Most recent Volkswagen Eos’s with Android Auto or Apple CarPlay will update automatically, so there is no need for you to produce any updates. You can continue to use your GPS with comfort knowing that the map and speed limits are up to date.

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