Factory-fitted Satnav - worth the money?

[dwright2104]

oh yeh i was touring not long ago and was in coventry. 2 of us were staying about 20 mins from the theartre, Had my mums focus with the blaupunkt sat nav and i offered to let the other person follow me in as i said the sat nav i had was great. they didnt belive me and used there tomtom, left from same place at same time the other persons tomtom took them a different route, and took them along a road which was now closed

Note: The focus is an 08 plate (so the maps must be at least that old) and they had just updated there tom tom that week.

I must admit i would not pay the £1,000 extra for it, too greedy with my cash. there was two focus's almost exatly same apart from one had 4,000 more miles, same price. But the car with more miles had satnav and full sports pack worth £2,500 total. The salesman couldnt understand why we picked the car with more miles as they hadnt marked that the sat nav or sports pack extra on there computer system and the salesman didnt even look at the car.

[glnta]

oh yeh i was touring not long ago and was in coventry. 2 of us were staying about 20 mins from the theartre, Had my mums focus with the blaupunkt sat nav and i offered to let the other person follow me in as i said the sat nav i had was great. they didnt belive me and used there tomtom, left from same place at same time the other persons tomtom took them a different route, and took them along a road which was now closed

Note: The focus is an 08 plate (so the maps must be at least that old) and they had just updated there tom tom that week.

I must admit i would not pay the £1,000 extra for it, too greedy with my cash. there was two focus's almost exatly same apart from one had 4,000 more miles, same price. But the car with more miles had satnav and full sports pack worth £2,500 total. The salesman couldnt understand why we picked the car with more miles as they hadnt marked that the sat nav or sports pack extra on there computer system and the salesman didnt even look at the car.

ITS NICE WHEN SALEMEN ARE THICK, WHICH = TO 99% OF THE TIME WHEN YOU POP IN TO FORD

[Vee4]

Thanks again, glnta. The frustrating thing for me is the fact that if the Ford dealer had been able to spell out all the advantages that you list, I probably would have gone for it. However, they could tell me nothing (not even the model number) and I didn't want to spend that kind of money on something that could prove to be useless.

I'm quite happy with my TomTom (Go730). I just have it in 2D map mode with North at the top, and all displays and noises turned off except the speed/limit display. I very rarely use the route planner as I am old-fashioned and treat it like a scrolling road atlas. It always seems to want to go on a different route from me anyway. I bought a subscription to the 'safety' camera database, although it's not totally up-to-date. For example, it still has the 50mph speed cameras on the M1 between Hemel Hempstead and Luton but they were removed last December (2008) when the widening was completed. Also, it doesn't have the 50mph camera as you enter Sandy on the A1, southbound.

[glnta]

Thanks again, glnta. The frustrating thing for me is the fact that if the Ford dealer had been able to spell out all the advantages that you list, I probably would have gone for it. However, they could tell me nothing (not even the model number) and I didn't want to spend that kind of money on something that could prove to be useless.

I'm quite happy with my TomTom (Go730). I just have it in 2D map mode with North at the top, and all displays and noises turned off except the speed/limit display. I very rarely use the route planner as I am old-fashioned and treat it like a scrolling road atlas. It always seems to want to go on a different route from me anyway. I bought a subscription to the 'safety' camera database, although it's not totally up-to-date. For example, it still has the 50mph speed cameras on the M1 between Hemel Hempstead and Luton but they were removed last December (2008) when the widening was completed. Also, it doesn't have the 50mph camera as you enter Sandy on the A1, southbound.

I customised some of my voices for tom tom 6 a few months ago, I have Ozzie Osbourne as the voice telling me to "turn ***king left", "you have r-r-r-reached your ***king destination" and some other funny voices just to keep me amused whilst sitting in bloody London traffic constantly

[glnta]

Full UK instruction manual for the Blaupunkt TravelPilot FX Sat Nav now posted here

viewtopic.php?f=31&t=58380

[Timbo]

I have the earlier Ford satnav and it seems to work O.K. with a very polite lady inside who says "PLEASE turn left". As I don't have an instruction book I am still finding out about it by trial and error. One hassle is that you have to take your music CD out and put the nav disc in when you want to find a route.

[Vee4]

Full UK instruction manual for the Blaupunkt TravelPilot FX Sat Nav now posted here

Excellent piece of work there!

[glnta]

Full UK instruction manual for the Blaupunkt TravelPilot FX Sat Nav now posted here

Excellent piece of work there!

Alot of scanning , but I knew it would help us all.

[200pswayne]

Hi mate got the new one fitted in my 200ps 09 limited my advice go on holiday with the £900 and buy a tom tom for £100 they are to small and will not pick up detail like the tom tom.
thanks wayne

[glnta]

Hi mate got the new one fitted in my 200ps 09 limited my advice go on holiday with the £900 and buy a tom tom for £100 they are to small and will not pick up detail like the tom tom.
thanks wayne

You mean £950.00 + VAT that's how much mine cost. THEY ARE TOO SMALL

[200pswayne]

Hi mate got the new one fitted in my 200ps 09 limited my advice go on holiday with the £900 and buy a tom tom for £100 they are to small and will not pick up detail like the tom tom.
thanks wayne

You mean £950.00 + VAT that's how much mine cost. THEY ARE TOO SMALL

Hi mate wayne nice transit had the older shape same silver 137 ps 350 hd high speed diff fantastic .had new one on order in tonic blue for delivery nov 08 from polar ford but van never arrived so ended up with 200ps 350 lwb high roof double cab limited with high speed diff small sat nav still use old tom tom.
beware i got pulled by vosa with old 350 hd drw had chrome kit fitted and ford liner tow bar and roof rack i had full tank diesel two passangers empty van to my suprise i was over loaded and wieghed 3670kg

[dwright2104]

ITS NICE WHEN SALEMEN ARE THICK, WHICH = TO 99% OF THE TIME WHEN YOU POP IN TO FORD

It was motorpoint we got it from, not ford lol. But there all just as thick.

[Mike]

ITS NICE WHEN SALEMEN ARE THICK, WHICH = TO 99% OF THE TIME WHEN YOU POP IN TO FORD

It was motorpoint we got it from, not ford lol. But there all just as thick.

If you're going to take advantage of a thick salesman when you buy your van, don't complain when you have a problem and he's still thick

FWIW the chap I deal with at Perry's in Aylesbury is very good, a bit old school I think. Not too pushy, spends time to get things right, even his coffee is drinkable!

Oh and if you're going to accuse them of being thick, you could at least make an effort to get your spelling correct

[dwright2104]

i Cant spell ma bads.

[glnta]

Hi mate got the new one fitted in my 200ps 09 limited my advice go on holiday with the £900 and buy a tom tom for £100 they are to small and will not pick up detail like the tom tom.
thanks wayne

You mean £950.00 + VAT that's how much mine cost. THEY ARE TOO SMALL

Hi mate wayne nice transit had the older shape same silver 137 ps 350 hd high speed diff fantastic .had new one on order in tonic blue for delivery nov 08 from polar ford but van never arrived so ended up with 200ps 350 lwb high roof double cab limited with high speed diff small sat nav still use old tom tom.
beware i got pulled by vosa with old 350 hd drw had chrome kit fitted and ford liner tow bar and roof rack i had full tank diesel two passangers empty van to my suprise i was over loaded and wieghed 3670kg

You don't really get pulled by VOSA in London, my old T350 Jumbo 125PS used to look like a reverse dragster with so much weight in the back and SRW, never got pulled once in 6 yrs.

That must have been some chrome kit or you and your passengers are all fat

It doesn't matter anyway Wayne, look here

http://fordtransit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=51188&start=75

, page 6. Some little twat smashed into my van at 1.30 in the morning on xmas eve while it was parked for the night, extensive damage, went to Dagenham Motors in East London today to be assessed. 50 50 whether repaired or written off gutted mate.