Wow. The reason I connected my explorer to my home wifi is because I thought the maps would update. I guess it's been a waste of time. Now I wish we hadn't bought it with the nav. I've always been a ford guy, but this lack of updates from ford is a rip off.

 

Don't get too excited.. Ford is NOT alone when it comes to Map Updates for built in GPS!.

I traded in my 09 Cadillac SRX for my 16 F150.. and Cadillac is absolutely no better with map updates then Ford is... they were always 3 years off, and too often unavailable... I sometimes ended up getting them from Ebay instead of GM.

Worse news, is most care makers dump map updates between year 5 to 7 ... and yet, will not share the code, so people can update their own maps. and since I had several cars over 7 years old with built in navs, that was annoying!

Same with my 08 Honda Goldwing! The installed maps were 4 years old from the gitgo, and they did not have an update for it until 2011, after which the Honda Maps were always 3 year behind.... but.. it uses a generic mapbase file, so users are able to create their own map data file from Basemaps. I update them myself now, about every 2 years or so.

 

I just ordered the A9 Sync "2018-2019-version" Nav Card on FleaBay. Under US$45 delivered! A way betta' deal than the A9 one Ford offered in the letter I got Saturday~~ $149.00 (delivered).
Won't get for a few days as it comes from Calif. -->but not planning any trips that need the Nav program anyway.

On another note, recently worked w/ Disaster Recovery Services in NC during Hurricane Florence deploying generators to cellphone towers. The Sync maps as well as GoogleMaps & Waze weren't worth a crap during the storm or afterwards. Ended up using a Garmin GPS & Lat/Long coordinates for the sites along w/ Google Maps on cellphone to traverse the flooded and closed roads.
Whatta PITA!

 

Make sure your read through the whole thread. When I checked with Trevor, Ford still has not made the upgrade available again.

 

And if you follow the link to it's end (where you would place the order) you would see:

Thank you for your interest in a navigation update for your SYNC 3 system.


This Product Is Currently Unavailable.

 

That is for both the SuperDuty and the F-150.

 

You have the most current GPS program. 1.16 is the latest version. When I checked with HERE, I've told me the sub# is not the year.

 

Website still shows unavailable for my 2016.

 

I thought the 18's needed the USB version, locked to your VIN and ESN... SD Card version will not work in your truck, I don't think.

Or will it? I am so confused... are the 16's the only ones that use the USB version, and the 15, 17 and 18's using SD Cards?