AIBU to pay £750 for built in sat nav in new car?

[Honeybooboo123]

given that I could just use my phone... it's an expensive i hadn't budgeted into for new car, but it seems silly to have the lovely touch screen but no sat nav installed? Thoughts?

We have one built in to our jeep. Honestly, by the time it's woken up you're halfway to your destination, it's sluggish, doesn't always avoid delays and when it does it re routes in the most baffling, long winded ways.

So that's a no from me.

I'd be lost (literally ) without the sat nav in my Audi. It works really well and I have the virtual cockpit which puts the map with the speedo on one screen. I would and have payed extra

Use your ohone. The car satnav will be out of date within 18 months and you'll have to pay again.

I wouldn’t pay that much for satnav, no.
To those who have problems with data usage for google maps, cache the maps to your phone, switch your phone to airplane mode and then use it as satnav. On an iPhone, open the map, select the area you want and then type into the search area “ok maps” and it will ask if you want to save the selected are for offline usage.
You can do it from android too I think but I can’t remember how to do it.

My in car sat nav is great. It came with the (new) car though, it wasn’t an extra you could decide if you wanted or not. Actually my last 3 (new) cars have all had in built sat navs as standard and I’m pretty sure my husbands have also, I know his current car does and think his previous car did also.

The only problem I have is that it does not recognise the abbreviations when it speaks so it will say h.w.y instead of highway, m.t.y instead of motorway etc, that really shits me but I cope

Should add the in-built ones seem to have improved over time. I know my current one is so much better than the first one I had.

My Hyundai came with it as standard & it's great - I've had no dramas with it at all.

I'd def get sat nav in my next car too.

I did this. It was worth every penny. It frees up my phone for calls or if my son wants to use it. I couldn't be without it.

I wouldn't. I have the screen in my audi but the sat nav isn't enabled. Didn't effect my decision to buy it, nor was I tempted to out it in when I bought. Mobile or £100 sat nav is more than enough!

Using your phone satnav is a lot more futureproof.

Our next wave of company cars will be Skodas with a heads up display that displays your phone sat nav. Brilliant idea.

Are you ever going to sell the car on ?

If so I would get it. I wouldn't buy a car without a sat nav personally.

TrinitySquirrel

Use your ohone. The car satnav will be out of date within 18 months and you'll have to pay again.

Pay again for what ?

no dont bother for 750 will be a waste when u have to update it xcoz it wont work with new roads etc

just use your phone googlemaps always gives traffic updates and re routes

I think a built in sat nav is quite old fashioned- it’ll look the way a car phone did 10 years ago- dated. Personally I wouldn’t

I didn’t get it in my car as I have a separate Garmin which does the job admirably and it’s mine to take to a new car or in someone else’s car.

£750 is ridiculous.

Pay again for what ?

Map updates.

I live outside, but work in a city. I have absolutely no sense of direction so need a satnav if my known routes are closed. Having it built in gives easy quick access on the occasions it’s needed, but £750 is expensive.

Does £750 just get sat nav? In my Discovery and Dhs Porsche the whole entertainmrnt system and communications system is displayed on the screen so the whole lot is integrated. If £750 is just sat jab in a bog standard Toyota that sounds a lot for a one dimensional facility. What about phone connection and entertainment? How does that work?

I have no problems with any sat nav system in any car we have owned. Porsche system is more fiddly to set than Disco system but it’s good.

Whether you pay £750 for a basic system really depends on what other buyers are doing. Is yours going to be the only car without it when you come to sell it? Alternatively, buy a better make of car a couple of years old!

I don't always use sat-navs for directions, just to tell what the speed limit on the current road is.

Inbuilt Citroen Sat Nav is missing over 50% (or doesn't display them)

Google Maps doesn't display them (unless you install another overlay app which I did - and it was crap)

HEREMaps - perfect ! Plug phone power into car charged, and off we go. It has a "driving" mode which seems to have all the speed limits in. Cache the maps, but keep data on for traffic updates.

Given that I already have a phone, total cost = £0 + a few minutes installing.

If £750 is just sat jab in a bog standard Toyota that sounds a lot for a one dimensional facility. What about phone connection and entertainment? How does that work?

Typically in a toyota, the touchscreen and audio are all part of the standard install and then the sat nav is just an add on installation. Many have a sat nav button even if it's not installed.

So I have dab radio, bluetooth phone connection for calls and music all controlled from the touchscreen/steering wheel but no sat nav

The only reason we got the sat nav, was the level of accessories needed to get adaptive cruise control (which is what we wanted) included it anyway.

It also includes the software to run a "browser" on the screen. If you pay £200 for the Citroen wibble-city adapter, plus £30/month subscription. You have to do this, as they have nobbled the bluetooth networking to reject anything non-Citroen (like a tethered phone).

As it happens, not having had a "browser" fixed into a car before, we don't miss it. But we do have (two) which we can carry out of the car with us ...

Someone upthread mentioned Google ... there is a feature/product of Android called Android Auto (not to be confused with "Google Drive") which is a protocol to connect your Android device to your Android-Drive enabled car, and run the screen etc from your tablet.

Personally I'd hope this is the way forward, rather than every manufacturer trying to compete and inevitably failing dismally.

www.carwow.co.uk/guides/choosing/which-cars-have-android-auto

You can run Android Auto just on your device. Personally I don't like it, as it doesn't allow to divert calls/texts to voicemail when driving, and it's integrated with Google Maps which isn't very good.

We were looking at previous registered Nissan and were deciding between two. One was £1000 more, but had a higher spec which included sat nav.
It works OK in general but isn't the greatest and we probably won't bother to update. We always have a map work with us anyway.
We chose to pay the extra because we preferred the colour, it had a reversing camera, lane sensors and the sat nav. We were still saving him £4000 on the original sale price.

Never used sat nav :')

My last two cars have had in built sat navs and found both of them to be awesome.

Both have had free updates, live traffic.

Love the 9in screen and the dash board display saves looking away from the road.

Had to use google maps in a hire car and found it awful estimated travel time is wrong and some really strange routings.

Also use apple car play all the time. I can also use google maps through the car screen on my phone.