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GlosBoy
Member Since: 16 Oct 2009
Location: Chandlers Ford
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I know there have been many posts on here but for the first time since installing my new 2009/10 Sat Nav CD I had cause to use it in anger
I assumed that by doing an upgrade from a 2006 to a 2009/10 version it would be a lot better.
NO IT AINT.
Was going from Glos to Bristol Airport - first issue, the only listings for the airport on the POI were in something like finnish (I have selected UK English when setting up). Then selecting Motorway as preferred route was painful, it must have changed. Anyway, got there in the end.
It got me to the M5 which was all goodness. Then proceeded to try to take me off every bleeding exit from Glos to Bristol - I had this with previous Disk. Anyway, I ignored it until Bristol and then for some dumb  reason decided to let it guide me. I was early and curious
It did get me there but what a conveluted way - all thru parts of the city and ended up near Clifton. I know you can go this way but not the best.
On the way back I switched the stupid woman off and followed the signs
Return journey was 20 mins shorter.
Think the makers must be in conjunction with the petrol companies
I should have saved the money I spent on a pucker disk and bought the latest Garmin or Tom Tom. 
My own car has built in system and is brilliant D4 HSE - Aintree Green
D4 Orkney my13 - gone
Stornaway D4. Gone, Didn't like it at all
D3 silver manual. Loved my first LR
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 3rd Feb 2010 11:25 am |
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AWD man
Member Since: 03 Jul 2009
Location: In Drag
Posts: 831
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Mine's been fine  57 RRS TDV8
BAS Map
D3: Gone but not forgotten
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| 3rd Feb 2010 12:25 pm |
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GlosBoy
Member Since: 16 Oct 2009
Location: Chandlers Ford
Posts: 2444
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Obviously User Error then on my behalf
Guess I am used to my German lady in the Merc  D4 HSE - Aintree Green
D4 Orkney my13 - gone
Stornaway D4. Gone, Didn't like it at all
D3 silver manual. Loved my first LR
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| 3rd Feb 2010 1:00 pm |
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Stu
Member Since: 08 Feb 2009
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 2423
 
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It is very poor.
On the way back from Bala it took me down the A34 (after I told it not to take me to london (I live near Southampton and going via the M25 is about 100 miles further!).
So A34 - all good and sensible, until we got to the M4 junction where it decided that rather than continuing down the A34 I should divert and drive through Newbury town centre and then rejoin the A34 about 8 miles further down. Obviously I ignored it, but there are times when I don't know where I am going and I know that if I am following the Sat Nav it will take me obscure routes.
I am using the 2009 / 2010 disc.
I have a TomTom in my car and it's sooooooo much better and about a 10th of the cost. D3 HSE MY05 Auto
Expo Rack, Club MTR, LR Spots, A Bar, Light Guards, GNVP Sump Guard, GNVP Ladder, Cup Holders, RLD A Bar brackets. Disco3Club stickers, Aux power on Mod
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| 3rd Feb 2010 1:19 pm |
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Alicatt
Member Since: 10 Jul 2007
Location: Eating in Eksel or Working in Wick
Posts: 320
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And that is why the Wife takes her TomTom in the RRS if she is going anywhere as she dosn't trust the routes the RRS sat nav generates.
The estimated journey time on the RRS is also way too short. Plus the fact that the wife knows I like to take convoluted routes to get anywhere so she won't let me program the sat nav as I tell it to avoid motorways
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| 3rd Feb 2010 1:26 pm |
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al cope
Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
Posts: 10297
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Stu
mine (09 disk) ignores the A34 completely until you are on it. From home in brum to southampton, its got to be the A34 as primary route - no, M40, M25, M3, or M5, M4, M25, M3 - anything but the A34.
Al Volvo XC90 B5 Plus Dark
Gone - MY18 D5 HSE - Corris on 22's with Black Pack
Now gone - MY16 D4 SE Tech, Loire Blue, Almond Leather, Privacy, plus some other goodies.
Old - MY12 D4 SDV6 XS Auto - Ipanema Sand with Almond Leather - Plus other niceties, and D4.com sticker
Older - D3 TDV6 XS Auto - Lugano Teal with Almond Leather, 20" Stormers, Shiny Tailpipes, DVD/TV - and obligatory D3 sticker
Ancient - D3 TDV6 S - Tonga with Ebony, 20" Stormers, satnav & DVD
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| 3rd Feb 2010 1:41 pm |
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Stu
Member Since: 08 Feb 2009
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 2423
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I know what you mean. It doesn't like the A34 at all, and as you say it's the only obvious route.
I've only got 1 way point stored on my sat nav and it's for the A34 to the west of Newbury, just to force it to go the sensible way.
I think the Sat Nav was invented by my wife, she navigates around london (in the car) by using a tube map and tube stations! D3 HSE MY05 Auto
Expo Rack, Club MTR, LR Spots, A Bar, Light Guards, GNVP Sump Guard, GNVP Ladder, Cup Holders, RLD A Bar brackets. Disco3Club stickers, Aux power on Mod
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| 3rd Feb 2010 1:57 pm |
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Alicatt
Member Since: 10 Jul 2007
Location: Eating in Eksel or Working in Wick
Posts: 320
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Between posting the last message and now my 2010 nav disk arrived and has been installed, once the screen cleared I was tossed out the car and the wife is away for a run so never got to see what options are on it yet  Thank goodness it defaults to Belgium
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| 3rd Feb 2010 2:24 pm |
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blowpipe
Member Since: 07 May 2009
Location: lightwater
Posts: 1111
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There was me thinking it was just my LR Satnav that was carp!
The observation about the system wanting to constantly take me off a perfectly direct and fast A road onto minor routes is something I experience regularly. Half tempted to can it in favour of a TomTom...
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| 3rd Feb 2010 6:25 pm |
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TazDaz
Member Since: 07 May 2007
Location: South East Essex
Posts: 2858
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Strange. I've used my LR SatNav extensively in UK & Europe and, apart from a very few times, it always appears to take me on the correct roads. I do check the routes against maps too (and the wifes TomTom)
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| 3rd Feb 2010 6:38 pm |
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Alex08
Member Since: 09 Nov 2006
Location: Glasgow
Posts: 1600
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Mine would never let me stay on a motorway in Austria - eventually twigged that the sat nav considered it to be a 'toll road' as you need a sticker to show that you have paid for the motorway. Turned off the 'avoid toll road' option and it was fine.
The preferences are very fickle. I have taken off the 'prefer motorway' option as it will then avoid logical A roads and find a motorway rroute somehow. With that option off I can do Glasgow to Dundee without going through Edinburgh.
If you take time to fiddle it can be OK. Except in Leeds. I always get lost in Leeds. Every time.
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| 3rd Feb 2010 6:46 pm |
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Hassle
Member Since: 19 Nov 2008
Location: Sleaford
Posts: 723
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Going up the A1 out of London mine would like to take me off at the M25 junction round the south mimms roundabout and back down the other side. 
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| 3rd Feb 2010 8:12 pm |
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JF Lux
Member Since: 08 Sep 2007
Location: A little country in Europe
Posts: 3522
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To be honest, I've only ever had one problem with it...so it works for me. The next American ex-pat that calls it a "truck" is going to find out what 2.7 tons feels like on their foot...
Club "yes, I too have had the EGR's replaced..."
Club "yes, I too have had the compressor replaced..."
Club "yes, I too once had the car at the dealer for a couple of weeks nearly 4 weeks over 4 weeks...5 weeks"
Club "yes, I too have had EPB failure..."
Club "yes, I too get mysterious bings and bongs..."
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| 3rd Feb 2010 9:05 pm |
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