I'm in the military, and deployed right now....

My wife tells me the Nav in her 2006 Mountaineer (Ford System) has quit working with some sort of disc error. We were using a burned copy of our 8P disc because we lived in the Nation's safest city, Washington DC...and I figured it was just one more thing to get stolen, so we left the original at home.

Now the original is packed up with my stuff, she can't get to it.

The truck went in to Ford for some transmission work (which they screwed up BTW, but thats a separate rant) under the extended warranty, and she asked them to fix the NAV also.

They claim to have replaced the NAV system, but told her that using a burned disc will ruin the new player too; and gave two reasons:
1) It is different because it doesn't have the encryption so it messes up the players "head".
2) Writable DVD/CDs are slightly thicker than real ones, so that messes up the loading mechanism.

They said it does the same thing to a car audio CD player too.

I've been around electronics and computers a long time and have never heard such a thing...supposedly they had the "radio shop" that replaced it tell her the same thing.

We won't have access to the real DVD for months...I'm happy to buy another real one for the time being, and just sell my other one when I get it back....if for some odd reason the dealer is correct...

What do you think?

 

I'd take the copy and burn other copies on different machines, if it's possible. There are defiinitely different thicknesses of media. My six cd changer in my mustang worked fine with 5 cds and proceeded to jam permanently with six.

Depending on where you burned the dvd, speed of the burn, quality of media, exposure to the elements, it may have ran it's useful life out. A ripped disc vs. a pressed disc is definitely more fragile. If you can find a location that can read the old one and write a new without errors, you may be okay.

I'd suspect how much they want for a replacement disc, you could almost buy a new nav unit though.

 

I have the same 8P burned copy in my NAV unit and I got a disc error once when the interior got very hot in Texas while passing through. I turned the unit off and allowed the interior to cool down with MAX A/C for about 30 minutes and she booted up no problem.
Hasn't happened since or before and I have been using it for 2+ years now.

 

The truck is garage kept most of the time, but it is S. Florida...so the heat could be an issue. I'll be home for a couple days soon and will get to mess with it a little...

In the mean time, I got a good deal on a 6P disc on ebay...