Member Since: 30 Apr 2012
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Rubbish satnav
Hi all,
Is there a way to make the satnav work as good as a tomtom?
Mine is awful, it doesn't matter how I have the route preferences set it will always take me thought the centre of a town or city. And I mean the centre, driving
Home Friday, M25 shut, so it took me over Tower bridge!!,!,
It's MY 2012
Please help as i am having to use the TomTom app on my phone as I'm fed up with the LR one . £65 app is better than £1,000 landrover one
8th Sep 2013 12:05 pm
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Short answer is no
Get used to using both and get a live traffic tomtom they are pretty impressive Illegitimi Non Carborundum
I too use a TomTom with Live Traffic; but I'm thinking of moving to an Android app on a 7" screen which I will fit in front of the LR screen.
I will then also link that to a rear facing BlackVue to provide me with a a reversing camera.
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8th Sep 2013 1:24 pm
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Re: Rubbish satnav
harvey6480 wrote:
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Home Friday, M25 shut, so it took me over Tower bridge!!,!,
Which way did you want to go ?
On Friday both the Blackwall and Rotherhithe tunnels were jammed solid ...TMC probably worked out that the next best crossing was Tower Bridge 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
8th Sep 2013 1:36 pm
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Can't speak for 2012 but our 2011 behaves quite well - once you get used to it foibles! BUT still nowhere near as good as our Garmin(s) so when we have the Airstream on tow we use our Garmin Dezl which can be programmed to observe the dimension restrictions associated to our rig.LR Discovery 4 XS pulling an Airstream 532 Caravan also own (since new) a 1996 MGF
8th Sep 2013 2:02 pm
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8th Sep 2013 2:20 pm
kenny
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I couldn't agree more, today my wife had a good old laugh at me trying to use the AUD $5000 sat nav, always wants to take you the long way and the maps don't include roads that were built 5 years before the car was manufactured. Shame on land rover!!
8th Sep 2013 3:03 pm
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True story, I remember sitting in the car waiting to dis embark the Hoek to Harwich ferry one evening a few years back and programming my D3 (at that time) sat-nav to get me home to Northampton. As I drove through customs the route came up wanting to take me back across the Chanel and through Belgium On a mission to find the perfect Pork Pie. Just Found it (I think)..(Yes I have)
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8th Sep 2013 3:04 pm
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8th Sep 2013 3:55 pm
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Of course TomTom would have found another secret crossing 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
8th Sep 2013 4:44 pm
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I've never understood why people moan when Sat Nav takes them a different way than they wish...
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8th Sep 2013 5:06 pm
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I've only had one real problem with the sat nav and coincidently that was in central London also however as DG says it was probably taking into account the traffic using the TMC and was trying to avoid it, all other times it has been spot on Cheers Ian
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8th Sep 2013 6:40 pm
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Dave^ wrote:
I've never understood why people moan when Sat Nav takes them a different way than they wish..
Always useful to see how it compares with reality. Like when the LR sat sav took SWMBO down the A9 between Perth & Stirling via the centre of Dunblane, just stupid. Or when friend of mine was taken off the autoroute, round a football field, literally, then back onto the Autoroute to get to a hotel that was in motorway services. Just nuts. I gave up on LR satnav when it woud insist on using the M5/M4 route to get to Usk in Monmouthshire rather than the M50/A449 which took you right there at the same speed & a lot shorter distance. With satnav you have to have a certain level of trust that it's going to take a reasonable route if you're going to go some where new, certainly trust I wouldn't have.
8th Sep 2013 7:09 pm
petet
Member Since: 02 Dec 2007
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I have had 3 discos, 06 D3 HSE satnav was quite usable once you got used to it and many of the criticisms on here I felt were ill-founded. I did find it annoying in E.Germany when it told me to turn right when I knew it should turn left (no alternative), and it did not often suggest going down single track roads parallel to the motorway. The 11 D4 XS was a considerably less useful system and the 12 D4 hse I now have is downright annoying. Some of the routing is incomprehensible, trying to come off motorways for short distances only to rejoin them, but the worst feature is the TMS which doesn't seem to want to tell me anything useful just splats up a brown screen obscuring the map and repeatedly telling me that the traffic situation has changed and it wants to take me on a wild goose chase. As with so many things, can we please have the functionality of the D3 back, just updated for the roads that have been built in the last decade.
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