New car arrived Monday and yesterday got to see if the sat nav was any better, it is not, a 5 year old with the Ladybird book of roads could do better. Some of the route choices were wrong but understandable but some were just bizar.
Fortunately I expected no less and is not why I bought the car, but come on LR, this is meant to be a top end car and a £99 Tomtom from Halfords is significantly better. letters not necessarily in the right order

you'd think nowadays manufactures would put in the hardware [screen etc] and have a slot for the tomtom nav sd card, then you could buy whatever region card you want ... ... - .- -.




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Yep agree is still rubbish, use tom tom on my iphone



Great choice of colour Dixy  Paul
L405 now sold

stan wrote:

you'd think nowadays manufactures would put in the hardware [screen etc] and have a slot for the tomtom nav sd card, then you could buy whatever region card you want ...

Congrats Dixy - Loire blue is a very nice colour !  All my spelling errorz are belong to me!

2023 FFRR L460
2021 AM new Vantage

its really a very simple idea Waheed, and LR cant get a kickback from tomtom/garmin from the peeps that buy the sd cards.... ... - .- -.




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Thats why it is a possible business idea. Win Win all round. except for the dealers who charge £300 to update the s/w 2011 5.0SC Santorini Black
2009 5.0SC Santorti Black - Been stolen.
Had
2.5 DHSE P38
Alfa Romeo
BMW

Bought a new AB in September and treated myself to a new Tomtom with the large screen with 'traffic for life' for about £300. The traffic function is brilliant and a must for my 90 mile daily commute. I haven't even touched the RR sat nav. Why can't the manufacturers do a deal with the likes of Tomtom? MY23 D350 HSE
On my 7th RR plus various other JLR vehicles

I use an app called "Waze" on my iPad which sits over the original screen on the dash. Gives real-time traffic, roadworks and also finds another route if your original one becomes clogged and tells you how much time you will save.

And it's Free!

i assume real time traffic would use data .. ... - .- -.




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It only needs someone who is fluent in canbus type language and you could reprogramme the original head unit to accept an Android package or similar, or adapt an Android unit to fit and work all the other bits that are in the car...

Anyone know any top notch computer programmers...??? Pete
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2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Parchment over Navy Interior. Sold
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand, Jet Interior. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green, Ivory over Aspen Interior (Fatty Offroader) Sold
-Click for Project Fatty off roader-

...or hack the bluetooth connection so you could use an ipad/andriod tablet/phone as a remote for all the FF's functions.
so in theory you could have a tablet in front of the OE head unit and this [via an app] would control everything and then you could use your own nav program.... ... - .- -.




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If it's going to be hacked then wouldn't it be better to make the original hardware do what you want it to??

And there is no problem with the legalities as your reprogramming something you own to use software you can buy... Pete
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2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Parchment over Navy Interior. Sold
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand, Jet Interior. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green, Ivory over Aspen Interior (Fatty Offroader) Sold
-Click for Project Fatty off roader-

makes sense Pete, shame there isnt a card slot for the tomtom nav card in the back electronics cubby hole somewhere.. ... - .- -.




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Another vote for Waze - https://www.waze.com

Car infotainment is all moving to be based round our smartphones, projecting their apps on the main screen.

M.