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It is good at showing the flag of the country we're going into.
13th Oct 2017 5:51 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
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DSL wrote:
@ kajtzu: with your suuuuuuuuuperb data networks in Finland surprised you don't just bin the rubbish LR system (mine is now just used for radio station selection) and stick with GoogMaps. I did the 8,000km blast from southern UK to Sortland, NW Norway, and back dual running D4 LR system & google maps, concluded the LR system was so bad I haven't used it since.
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I have lots of other stuff to do before redoing satnav
I’ve read through the modders who put in a Garmin. Came to same conclusion that an iPhone mount would be most cost effective. Also investigated feasibility of just turning off and disconnecting the satnav. Seemed possible. The display I guess I need to keep if I want to use it for a reversing camera via gvif. Haven’t even enabled 4x4 mode yet I’ve had a few really close oopsies that I didn’t have with the D4 because on it I saw where the car’s fat was pointed at...
the front and rear distance sensors are much worse on the D3. My favorite so far is while stopped at the traffic lights if you have a 18 wheeler next to you the front starts beeping or a worker drills the pavement with a jackhammer
13th Oct 2017 6:23 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
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Oscarsball wrote:
I know a lot of people moan about it but to be fair it does what I want and has got me a fair few places here and in Europe without any real problems.
Yeah the UI is a bit dated but it does get the job done.
13th Oct 2017 6:26 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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The UI I could live with, the actual routing, especially if I dared to ignore the routing, was pants. If it thought there was an issue on the UK M6 it would happily reroute to the other side of the country. This would add an hour to the journey, to try and avoid a 2 minute delay. Similarly heading down the E45 in Sweden, then down to the coast, any variation from its route (which was rubbish) it would try and get you back on its route, not the best way to get you to your destination. Yes, it will do the job but it does it so badly it's just not worth bothering with.
13th Oct 2017 6:37 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
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The MY10 Volvo nav was just as stupid, it’s not a LR thing but a HERE/NAVTEQ feature....
The MY13 nav, because it has actual TMC data in Finland unlike the MY10 one where someone forgot to pay protection, asks every time the drive could be optimized by 200 meters or a minute. Also it thinks you can turn in places that have been 1-way for years or haven’t had a possibility of turning left for like forever. The map data quality is quite bad.
Haven’t seen the Sensus map system yet in action... disclaimers said Volvo will supply map data at least until 2025.
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13th Oct 2017 6:40 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Your MY10 Volvo maps were prob the same as my MY11 LR maps.
13th Oct 2017 6:43 pm
kajtzu
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Yup, was thinking the same - same , different packaging
13th Oct 2017 6:47 pm
Johnny Oxford
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would anybody in their right mind actually spend money on a disc for the awful satnav in the D3?
Google maps or tomtom or even Waze make it look like something out of the ark!
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15th Oct 2017 9:05 am
Bluenose1956
Member Since: 02 Jun 2015
Location: Tipperary
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Many thanks everyone for their input. It's interesting to read the thoughts of you all.
My thoughts were simply that I had the installed system so I was looking to use it to the fullest extent possible. I've been using the sat-nav in the UK for the last 7 years without difficulty but on my return to Ireland it was apparent the disc I have was so out of date it is next to useless.
3rd Nov 2017 1:44 pm
Russellg
Member Since: 24 Oct 2017
Location: Aberdeenshire
Posts: 48
It’s possible that a Tele-Atlas (or whatever they are called now) disc as opposed to Navteq might also work.
I used to run a VDO-Dayton system that would happily accept either disc.
I’ve recenlty picked up a 2005 D3 so will be looking trying one of my old discs, which are incidentally all newer than 2005, before I look at a legal upgrade.
If I remember correctly the best running discs were CD’s, I could run a UK CD, but the Europe data needed the larger capacity of a DVD.
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