Juan D Alvarez

Hi everyone,

I've been doing some research on the NAVI. I'm a soldier stationed in Germany and want to go on some awesome road trips here while I can. Does anyone have any experience with converting US Navi's to EU? Is it as simple as loading European maps onto the HDD? Or is this is much more complicated procedure? I have looked at some places where the mod was done, but not menay reputable sources. Any thoughts?

lmbatts

Its a complicated procedure but I used a company called VNSMEDIA and they did the conversion US to EU and the radio as well. Additionally they activated the audi connect.

m.grzywacz@vnsmedia.com <m.grzywacz@vnsmedia.com>

+48 22 789 62 51

Hope that helps

Juan D Alvarez

Thanks I'll look into it. How much did your mod cost, if I may ask?

lmbatts

400EUROS Euro Conversion
100EUROS Radio Conversion
100EUROS Activate Audi Connect

Juan D Alvarez

What is involved with these conversions. Why would I have to convert the radio? And the most important question is how easily could this all be put back to US for when i take the car back to the US?

lmbatts

It's all software so it can be converted back. The us radio is on odd numbers and the European is on even

Juan D Alvarez

Just a follow up here and a bump, but does anyone know the procedure for this US to EU mod if i were to tackle it myself? Getting the maps is pretty easy. What do i do about the software?

spoon2000

IIRC the radio tuning specs, etc. can be adjusted from within the "hidden" or "green" MMI menu.

Just be careful not to mess with anything related to the boot loader while you're in there.

lmbatts

Spoon - Can u tell me where to do that in the green menu? I have had the Green Menu hack in my 05 A6 and 08 Q7 as well as my current 2012 A6 and I cannot find where to change the radio frequencies. I paid to have it changed every time.

The green menu is dangerous for sure but the bootloader isnt the only thing. I changed the internal Region back to US once and the nav system rebooted itself over and over again for hours. Finally had to memorize the key sequence to beat the Nav system booting. LOL. Thats was a scary moment.

lmbatts

Juan u cannot do the maps urself. They have to be activated once loaded.