For those of you familiar with the map update process on a 2023 MDX and have gone through this ordeal, please feel free to snicker or laugh at my travails. For those unfamiliar, please use this information to survive the process.
To start with, my Acura dealer would not assist me in this process at all except to offer the website where to go first. The process starts with formatting a minimum 2.0 32GB USB memory stick, then downloading the HERE map downloader tool before anything else. Once those 2 tasks are complete, downloading the current maps version (for me it was 23.01.03) can then be initiated.
Depending upon many variables, the three (3) above mentioned tasks can take anywhere from the time it takes to prepare a seven course meal to growing a beard! For me, everything took just under 5 hours from start to finish. Now you are ready to transfer the map data from the USB stick to the car.
Everything that I had read from Acura owners online indicated that the process would take between 45 minutes to as long as an hour and 15 minutes, preferably with the engine running. With that in mind, my wife and I just planned a drive out in the country.
After inserting my loaded USB disk into the USB port in the center console armrest storage box, the entire download process took exactly 46 minutes. There is no progress meter during the download process, and the only indication that you have completed the process is when a message "Download Complete, Please Re-Start the Car to Load Maps". My wife and I were already operating the car, so we just stopped at a market, then re-started the car to confirm that my maps version had been updated.
Acura and Honda should be embarrassed and ashamed to ask their customers to go through this BS procedure just to update their maps. I've owned other new cars where you just simply changed out the disks, and I've owned many Garmin products that were updated online. This process that Acura now uses is total BS and puts them squarely in the dark ages when they are supposed to be an upscale car company. At the very least, the company that Acura uses for this program (HERE) should stock pre-loaded USB memory sticks for sale to owners of older Acura cars or complimentary for owners of new cars.
God help us all if cars get even more complicated.....cheers to all!
To start with, my Acura dealer would not assist me in this process at all except to offer the website where to go first. The process starts with formatting a minimum 2.0 32GB USB memory stick, then downloading the HERE map downloader tool before anything else. Once those 2 tasks are complete, downloading the current maps version (for me it was 23.01.03) can then be initiated.
Depending upon many variables, the three (3) above mentioned tasks can take anywhere from the time it takes to prepare a seven course meal to growing a beard! For me, everything took just under 5 hours from start to finish. Now you are ready to transfer the map data from the USB stick to the car.
Everything that I had read from Acura owners online indicated that the process would take between 45 minutes to as long as an hour and 15 minutes, preferably with the engine running. With that in mind, my wife and I just planned a drive out in the country.
After inserting my loaded USB disk into the USB port in the center console armrest storage box, the entire download process took exactly 46 minutes. There is no progress meter during the download process, and the only indication that you have completed the process is when a message "Download Complete, Please Re-Start the Car to Load Maps". My wife and I were already operating the car, so we just stopped at a market, then re-started the car to confirm that my maps version had been updated.
Acura and Honda should be embarrassed and ashamed to ask their customers to go through this BS procedure just to update their maps. I've owned other new cars where you just simply changed out the disks, and I've owned many Garmin products that were updated online. This process that Acura now uses is total BS and puts them squarely in the dark ages when they are supposed to be an upscale car company. At the very least, the company that Acura uses for this program (HERE) should stock pre-loaded USB memory sticks for sale to owners of older Acura cars or complimentary for owners of new cars.
God help us all if cars get even more complicated.....cheers to all!
