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?

I have a new car and no sat nav either it's a mini not worth the price I paid tbh already lost 4k on it. I would get it if you can afford

Waze is free

There is nothing to fit on an external SatNav. Easy peasy to plug in to the cigarette lighter.
Built in satnav is a nice to have feature, you just simply get massively overcharged for it. The majority do not come with free map updates either as they have to licence the maps (and make a nice profit on them too).

If you pay for SatNav as an extra on a new car, you will not get your money back on it. In fact, almost all extras will cost you in the long run. The only benefit afterwards is that they can make your vehicle a litttle more attractive to a buyer, but not usually at a significantly higher price.
The extras depreciate faster than the vehicle!

When I bought my current car, I paid several hundred extra for the ability to parallel park itself, even though I knew I'd only use it about once a year. I just thought it would be a cool facility.

I mention this to illustrate how willing I was to spend money and get very little in return.

One of the most important features for me was a Sat Nav with realtime traffic information, as I would use this for every single journey I make. (I used to commute through central London and really, really, really wanted to optimise my journey time.)

I really, really wanted to have a built-in Sat Nav, as I hate having charging cable draped over the dashboard and devices planted there or on the windoe.

I concluded that no built-in Sat Nav was worth having, in fact despite costing hundreds/thousands of pounds extra, they simply could not do at all the job that Google Navigation on my Android phone did for free.

This was four years ago, things may have improved a little since then. But I still wouldn't pay for a built-in one. Google navigation is being improved all the time, why pay from something that is inferior to start with and won't be upgraded during the 15 year life of a car?

Google Maps is free and has a semi-offline capability (doesn't need phone signal, or use data)
Waze is free.
Here WeGo is free and has complete offline capability.

All have up to date maps.

The big advantage with Google Maps and Waze is that they have live traffic information too (if you have signal and data), and will re-route you on the fly depending on traffic conditions.

If you're happier with something like TomTom - they have a paid app (but it's a fraction of the cost of built in systems).

Basically, in car navigation is a total rip off. Manufacturers want to squeeze as much from you as they can, and this is a pretty simple way to do that, knowing that it's such an attractive feature and the cost doesn't seem all that much on your monthly payments etc. You're still paying 600.00 for something that costs them about 40.00 in licensing fees.

We (me, DH and the two DCs with cars) have the Brodit phone cradles and use our smartphones. Works really well.