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Swiftec

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I'm the new owner of a 2005 facelift Accord. All is brilliant so far, except the sat nav.

It loads fine, I can see the map fine, I can zoom in and out with no issue.

However, if I use the direction buttons and press enter (to presumably set it as a destination) then it crashes and reboots. The first 3 buttons don't appear to work at all (specifically the Map button to input a destination) - however pressing all 3 does bring up the diagnostic menu so it does register them.

I've tried doing a forced download from the original 2005 Honda CD but this made no difference.

Any ideas of how to fix this?
 
I didn't even know that button would bring anything up, but no, that button doesn't seem to work. Neither does the back button.

After the loading screen and pressing OK I can view the map. I can use the directions and zoom buttons but nothing else. Pressing enter on the scroll button causes a crash.
 
It's probably struggling to read the disc properly. Your best bet is to remove the disc drive and clean the lens with some lens cleaning fluid (the kind you'd use for glasses, just a dab on a cotton bud should suffice as it's such a small area). There's a guide somewhere to removing the trim and getting the disc drive out, but it's pretty straight forward. Remove the ash tray and give the trim around the gear knob a good tug to pop it out. Then undo all the philips head screws you can lay eyes on, pull off the trim around the disc drive. Then it's 4x10mm bolts, pull it out and undo the connectors. They're all different shapes so you can't put them back wrong.

Then open up the DVD drive and have a poke around. You might be able to get at the lens with a cotton bud without having to remove any of the mechanism, but if not, a small, watchmakers screwdriver set is all you need. It can be fiddly to put back together, but a little patience and using cotton buds or other small screwdrivers to hold things in place while you tighten stuff back up, you should be fine.

I've done it several times now. I've got it down to a 20 minute job :lol: . The area seems prone to having dust settle in there and it gets worse as the car gets older.
 
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