Quote: Originally posted by blueexpo97 on 23/12/2024
My dear MIL has just reminded me of the time when unbeknownst to her I changed the voice on her sat nav.
She nearly had a hairy fit when Bosco Albert Baracus told her to turn left in 50 yards.
Not as much a surprise as when I turned up the volume on FIL’s satnav: he didn’t realise there was any sound, he almost jumped out of the passenger seat the first time she spoke - luckily OH was driving. He then argued with the satnav lady’s directions all the way home.
Quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Bonce on 25/12/2024
Being lazy now, as I can Google it, but do you need to have the car's engine turned on to update the Satnav?
With my car I needed the ignition on but not the engine running. Cars may vary though.
Quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Bonce on 25/12/2024
Being lazy now, as I can Google it, but do you need to have the car's engine turned on to update the Satnav?
With my car I needed the ignition on but not the engine running. Cars may vary though.
Mine's one of those stupid ones where you need the engine running for around 40-50 mins to do the update, because without the engine running the electrics 'go to sleep' and shut everything down after max 10 mins - that would potentially crash the system leaving it in limbo with neither the old system or new system functional! And you can't do it whilst driving, 'cos it takes over the electronic display screen (very few controls by mechanical switches, everything is menu driven off the screen!)!
Really not impressed with the process, I don't do it very often, I use a free app on my phone which will patch into the car display, it has up to date maps, traffic data, speed camera data, AND can be set to caravan friendly routing, which the car system can't.
Quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Bonce on 25/12/2024
Being lazy now, as I can Google it, but do you need to have the car's engine turned on to update the Satnav?
With my car I needed the ignition on but not the engine running. Cars may vary though.
We would have had to pay £200 for an update to OH’s previous Škoda satnav. So we spent its final years with us apparently driving through fields while she told us to turn around when possible.
I just use google maps & put the directions through the car Bluetooth speakers as my 14 year old Golf never had satnav. Plus a trusty 1:50,000 map.
I have only ever updated my sat-nav once. When I bought the car it still had the original 2008 disk in it. I knew that I could only update it to 2013, but as that was better than 2008 I contacted Nissan. They could supply a 2013 disk, but at a cost of £150!! I went on ebay and got one for £10 and it worked perfectly. The update took around 15 minutes.
I can't update it any more unfortunately as my car took a DVD and the next model takes an SD disk.
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