Can I use SD Card from Mazda3 GT in Mazda CX-5 GT?

[cymx5]

We have both new Mazda3 and CX-5 Grand Touring Models. The Mazda3 has an SD Card for it's navigation, and the CX-5 has the option for the natigation, but it's like $500 for a tiny, delicate SD Card.

Does anyone know if I can just copy or swap the SD card and maps between vehicles depending on which one we road trip with?

 

[GAXIBM]

The 500 (or 450 if you buy online and installl yourself) is for the nav unit that holds the card and interfaces to the display, antenna, and car. I think the map may be on the card...

 

[prhac]

We have both new Mazda3 and CX-5 Grand Touring Models. The Mazda3 has an SD Card for it's navigation, and the CX-5 has the option for the natigation, but it's like $500 for a tiny, delicate SD Card.

Does anyone know if I can just copy or swap the SD card and maps between vehicles depending on which one we road trip with?

No, unfortunately. The CX5 is a 'Tomtom' map (though they of course are supplied with it) and the Mazda 3 isn't. Also, the software interpreting the maps is different.

 

[GAXIBM]

My daughter has a 2012 M3 I GT and I believe it has a TomTom unit but it has a compact screen and you control it with buttons on the steering wheel. The SD card might be the same and it might not...

 

[prhac]

I have a 3 with sd card - but not a Tomtom system - and a CX 5, and they are incompatible in my case. If your daughter's nav is Tomtom I would still doubt whether you can copy or swap.

 

[GAXIBM]

I have a 3 with sd card - but not a Tomtom system - and a CX 5, and they are incompatible in my case. If your daughter's nav is Tomtom I would still doubt whether you can copy or swap.

Is your 3 a 2012? Skyactiv?

 

[prhac]

No it's an mps (2009). The thing is that Tomtom are very careful that maps are difficult to copy and use on the same systems so I would have thought (but could be wrong) that it is unlikely it would work with a different system. The CX5's system/unit is the NB1

 

[cymx5]

Darn. I will have to check with the dealer about adding nav to the cx5 then. I didn't realize that the expensive unit i see online is the full stereo. The dealer gives fantastic prices on accessories, better than online prices, so maybe the maps themselves are only one hundred or two hundred.

 

[cymx5]

Looks like it's $500+ no matter how you look at it. The unit required for navigation is this:

https://www.amazon.com (commissions earned)

 

[PhoenixINX]

Is your 3 a 2012? Skyactiv?

The `12 Skyactiv cars use the previous generation navigation, and is not based on the Tom Tom system found in the CX-5.

After using the CX-5 nav on several trips, the 3i nav is downright horrid.