Great car, shame about the satnav?

I have just changed by Freelander GS for an XS which came with satnav fitted, am I expecting too much but to date the built-in satnav is nothing compared to the TomTom I've been using?

Unless I'm pressing the wrong buttons (highly possible) it doesn't show the vehicle's speed and even on the highest zoom street names are few and far between. Additionally is it possible to have the screensaver come on when the system is first switched on?

And while I'm on the subject have you seen how much a map upgrade costs!

My car also came with a compulsory Sat-Nav and a sliding 'sun'-roof, both of which I didn't want.

I regularly open the roof twice a year to clean the rails and drain channels.

The Sat-Nav I stopped using after 3 months as the maps were out of date.

I use a top of the range Garmin with lifetime updates for the same price as one map upgrade.

All in-car sat navs are a waste of time and money IMHO - plus you can't take them on a walk-about when visiting an unfamiliar town.

Singvogel.

I find all the Land Rover built in satnav systems are far to complicated. 90% of owners dont use any of the functions apart from inputting postcodes.

I do also love the sheer amount of LR's with TomTom's stuck to the touch screen satnav display

on my latest freelander 1 mk3 i took one look at the sat nav and decided to keep my Garmin one as Garmin own the satellite's

I have my own garmin and would never pay extra for an in car sat nav.

I use a Garmin in the car & on my motorbikes. Great bit of kit but a real pain to update the maps. In fact, for my unit I don't think there will be anymore updates - Street Pilot Series - so I guess a new one ( with lifetime updates) is in the cards soon.

Gave up on trying to make sense of updating my Freelander sat nav. LR must be losing out on an opportunity here?

David

Land Rover dont own the maps they use anyway.

One thing to look out for on fixed in car sat navs is where the map is located. If it's on a CD some where then often peeps will remove the CD just before you return to buy/collect the vehicle. CD's can be eggspensive to replace.

I've been using the Freelander satnav for about 2 months and can now confirm it is fairly average, actually that's a bit of an overstatement, it's not very good at all. The car's handbook deals with it in about three pages but I'm told there is a dedicated manual for it which might shed more light on its shortcomings, anyone know about it?

There is a manual, about 10x as thick as the users handbook called 'Infotainment Manual' and it explains how everything is supposed to work in a best case scenario

Took the Becker Sat Nav out of my TD4 HSE and replaced with with a Blaupunkt MP68 which takes the audio output from my Garmin and outputs it, in a mixed mode, through the cars speakers. Excellent....

How did you do that and cost? Easy?

chunkymunky said:

How did you do that and cost? Easy?

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Yep, simply removed the Becker Sat Nav using removal keys (I modified the ones I had with the Blaupunkt).

Installed the "cage" for the Blaupunkt, then the Blaupunkt itself including the aux-in cable that runs to the Garmin (and the mic lead, as it's also a hands free bluetooth telephone unit) and Bob's your Uncle !

It all connected up with standard Europlugs and works incredibly well.

Let me know if I can help further........ebt

Cheers, interesting

teddywood1 said:

on my latest freelander 1 mk3 i took one look at the sat nav and decided to keep my Garmin one as Garmin own the satellite's

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Does the US Government know?

englishbullterrier said:

Yep, simply removed the Becker Sat Nav using removal keys (I modified the ones I had with the Blaupunkt).

Installed the "cage" for the Blaupunkt, then the Blaupunkt itself including the aux-in cable that runs to the Garmin (and the mic lead, as it's also a hands free bluetooth telephone unit) and Bob's your Uncle !

It all connected up with standard Europlugs and works incredibly well.

Let me know if I can help further........ebt

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Did the same - firstly for a Pioneer AppRadio (now for sale) and then an Alpine system which, via Bluetooth, does all I want it to do.