Swapping RCD510 for RNS510 and vice versa

[Dubya]

there is more than enough information on this forum to assist you with choosing between the RCD510 and the RNS510.

Care to share any links? I have seen nothing setting out what justifies over $2,000 for an RNS510 over a portable navigation system.

If you are not inclined to spend the $$$s to have the RNS, then it is very unfair that you persist in asking forum members to make up your mind for you. If you don't think the additional $$$s for the RNS is really worthwhile....then don't get it. No-one is holding a gun to your head....or are they?

"Persist"? Very unfair?

You appear to be another person who chooses to read posts that do not interest or concern them, make value judgements and generally meddle when you have nothing useful to contribute.

What is unfair is you not leaving well enough alone posts that do not interest you so that those who do have the inclination to contribute information might help me (and other readers) decide whether the extra $$$ are warranted.

As it is, you seem intent on disrupting this thread with feigned or unwarranted indignation about the injustices of someone asking a perfectly reasonable and entirely relevant question in what is supposed to be an open, helpful and convivial forum; apart from which there are moderators, at least one of whom has posted to this thread, who are charged with the kind of moderation in which you impotently seek to engage.

So the question remains: what experiences have users of RNS510 had that justify the extra $$$?

If that offends your sensibilities or sense of justice, FJ, then move along and read another thread and refrain from meddling in threads to which you have nothing of value to contribute and merely desire to suppress. Or is someone holding a gun to your head?

[Corey_R]

Dubya, please tone it down else I'll simply close this thread.

Options are purely that. Optional. They are not a required component of the car, and what one person may find is well worth the money, another person may not.
So FJ Steve is correct on both fronts. There is plenty of information in numerous threads both in this MK6 forum, and in the VW Car Audio and Electronics forum. Do a search, or use the "Archive" link at the bottom and do a test search of the thread title listings.
It is not the job of these forums or its members to justify to you why an option costs what it does and whether it's worthwhile for you. You need to look at the threads and make a decision for yourself.

[peedman]

Dubya,

I dont think sat nav is worth $2500 either. If you really want the RNS510 the most viable option in my mind is to purchase one off ebay for $1000-1200, install it yourself and get someone to CANBUS for full functionality. Then you can sell your RCD510 to mk5/6 owners (with the lockout code) to recoup some costs.

[Dubya]

Dubya, please tone it down else I'll simply close this thread.

Options are purely that. Optional. They are not a required component of the car, and what one person may find is well worth the money, another person may not.
So FJ Steve is correct on both fronts. There is plenty of information in numerous threads both in this MK6 forum, and in the VW Car Audio and Electronics forum. Do a search, or use the "Archive" link at the bottom and do a test search of the thread title listings.
It is not the job of these forums or its members to justify to you why an option costs what it does and whether it's worthwhile for you. You need to look at the threads and make a decision for yourself.

Clearly you misunderstand my post and the questions in it.

I am not asking for anything you imply.

Searching for RNS510 (or any other term) invariably turns up dozens of threads and thousands of posts. The Search tool is not a very precise one.

You're patronising comments about options being options is uncalled for. Why tell me it is personal choice when I am seeking information about what justifies the $$$? Did you not think I knew it was a personal choice? If not, why make such comments?

I am simply asking people who are prepared to help to tell me why RNS510 justifies the $2500 as the only car in the pipleline has this fitted and I do not know whether to accept the car or arrange for the swap I referred to in my original post.

So the information I seek is legitimate, my interest is legitimate and the information would be helpful to me and possible others on this forum.

An unduly prescriptive and dictatorial approach to this and most threads is generally uncalled for.

So, as I have asked FJSteve, please leave my thread alone and refrain from commenting on it if, as a forum member, you have nothing helpful to add or, as a moderator, there is no breach of forum guidelines occurring. As for your original reply, echoing the unhelpful remarks of the previous poster is hardly helpful.

I have as much right as anyone to post a specific post and engage other members in a discussion about the value proposition of the RNS510 which, at $2,500 I cannot see and I challenge anyone to justify. If they can go some way to doing that, great, I might fork out the extra $s.

So far as others are willing and able to do so, I am asking that they enlighten me by sharing their experiences and I would ask you allow this to occur.

I hardly think posing such a question warrants the intervention of a moderator which takes everyone's time and adds nothing to this forum.

I thank BBP for expressing his support and those who are shaking their head at the interventionist and annoyingly meddling approach of some on this forum.

[Corey_R]

I hardly think posing such a question warrants the intervention of a moderator which takes everyone's time and adds nothing to this forum.

Dubya, you're exactly right. This is my weekend, and I don't wish to spend it having to moderate threads. I asked you to leave it alone and just concentrate on the topic of the thread. Since you can't, this thread is now closed.