Honda CR-V and Apple Car Play
Discussion
Apologies if this has been asked before, but would like views on adding Apple Car Play to a 2016 CR-V LX (UK model).
The standard system is absolutely fine, but lacking the car play feature, which my wife would really like as she is a fan of Waze over the inbuilt Garmin based system.
I believe there was a beta version firmware upgrade to add this in the US but was never offered outside of those territories and Honda UK can’t help.
Has anyone managed to get hold of this firmware upgrade and successfully installed it over here? Or is there another way? I have heard anecdotally that a later HR-V head unit that has car play as standard will interface perfectly with the CR-V info displays and steering wheel controls but it is a bloody expensive experiment if it doesn’t… I also don’t want to ‘Brick’ the head unit with incompatible firmware
Has anyone got any info or views on my best way forward? I really don’t want to change out the head unit for mainstream make that will possibly lead to compromises elsewhere
Ta in advance
The standard system is absolutely fine, but lacking the car play feature, which my wife would really like as she is a fan of Waze over the inbuilt Garmin based system.
I believe there was a beta version firmware upgrade to add this in the US but was never offered outside of those territories and Honda UK can’t help.
Has anyone managed to get hold of this firmware upgrade and successfully installed it over here? Or is there another way? I have heard anecdotally that a later HR-V head unit that has car play as standard will interface perfectly with the CR-V info displays and steering wheel controls but it is a bloody expensive experiment if it doesn’t… I also don’t want to ‘Brick’ the head unit with incompatible firmware
Has anyone got any info or views on my best way forward? I really don’t want to change out the head unit for mainstream make that will possibly lead to compromises elsewhere
Ta in advance
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