Buddyroe

Well, I got it installed. It is indeed a NAV unit, but I didn't buy an antenna so I disabled it with the code you provided on page 2. If I see a need for factory NAV, I can always add the antenna later and enable it. Disabling it took all the NAV references from the 8" screen, but the window to the right of the speedometer still has the option to display navigation. I'm sure that's a code also, but I'm not all that worried about it. The cool thing was, when I put in your values from page 2, and restarted it, the splash screen at the beginning was for a Raptor - but my daughter happened to be standing there at the time and went nuts. She LOVED it!! She asked me to please leave it. So that was cool. I have a few things to work out, but I'm pretty close. I wanted to say thank you to everyone who contributed to this thread and in particular @candurin.

Thanks again. I just ordered the adapter from Amazon. Gotta love Prime - it will be here tomorrow. Now if all the parts will get here before the weekend, I can try to get this project done. As far as the APIM being nav or not, I really couldn't care either way. In fact, if it were non-nav, that would be fine since it's less I have to worry about programming.

Hey everyone - thanks for all this info. Great thread. I'm doing the same in my daughter's 2014 Edge Limited. I bought the APIM and screen already. Here are the part #s I got. GB5T-18B955-SC JB5T-14G370-ACD The auction stated that these were from a 2018 Ford Explorer. However, it did not state if it had navigation or not. I really don't care if it does or not, which leads me to my question. If this unit has navigation and I don't bother to connect an antenna, will it affect the unit's functionality other than the navigation? Also, if I pay someone to do the programming (ie, Dan, as someone here recommended), would I still need to get the scanner to actually install the build file? PS. I couldn't help but laugh at the irony of me doing this project. Here I am adding Sync 3 to my daughter's 5 year old car just to give her Apple CarPlay, yet my wife's car is a Tesla which has the most advanced features of any car I've ever seen - in particular, Autopilot. Yet, guess what her biggest complaint about the Tesla is - "The only thing I miss from my Edge is the Sync 3" (she had a 2017 Edge Titanium for a few months until, like an idiot, I talked her into test driving a Tesla). In fact, Tesla doesn't even offer Apple CarPlay. Go figure. @candurin @Gortty-Pilot @jmr061 @toast1850 @DaMiFo