i currently have a 06 king ranch, lookin at a 2011 king ranch the 5.0. but it has the navigation, never had a truck with navi just some questions, can you get the weather, traffic reports, internet through it, does it take another cd to run the navi, is it fast? when starting truck does it go right the radio? can you run the climate control off of it? any other comments on it would be great, thanks.

 

Weather - Yes (sirus link and weather map / forecast for 5 days)
Traffic Report - Yes (both weather / traffic extra 4.99 a month after 6 months free
Internet - No
Has an internal HD so I think everything is ran off of that, you can watch DVD's when sitting still, you can burn your favorite CD's to the internal 10 GB HD so you don't have to keep them in the truck.

Starts up OK, plays radio in about 12~15 seconds, yes you can control the climate, has sync and you can say "Climate Tempature 72" and it will repeat and set it to it. Also you can ask for directions to an address, or play an artist on your iPod, iPhone, other MP3 device.

You can also stream Blue Tooth audio such as Pandora or stream music without cables.

Large 8" screen with backup camera, well worth it and it has growth capabilities for the future, such as native pandora, apps, etc.. TXT message reading (if it supports your phone only about 4 right now).

Good system I am pretty happy with it, wished it came with the myford touch though.

 

thanks

 

Radio is HD also, forgot to mention that as well.

 

I thought you could get Internet sharing via Sync. You just need a usb Wireless wan card that's compatible and once configured it will make your truck a mobile wi-fi hotspot so you can use wi-fi enabled devices. Similar to a zytel router or a mego portable hotspot device.

If you want to use it this way look for a device like the at&t mercury that supports an external antenna if you want to use wi-fi while driving down the road. I figure it's cheaper to let the kid watch netflix on my ipad on long trips rather than buy seat mounted DVD headrests.