Can anyone help with a problem I have with sat nav directions on the motorway. When travelling from Lincolnshire to Cornwall, A46, M1, M69, M6, M42 & M5 the directions frequently suggest that I exit at a particular junction and then, **gger me it then suggests that I take the second turning that, you guessed it, takes me back on the motorway again. Ok I'm not the type that follows the instructions blindly and ends up in the middle of a field but for the money we pay, i'd expect the system to be a bit more intelligent. Has anyone else had this problem and if so any ideas on how to sort it out. Worried that one day SWMBO may go on and off the motorway at each junction and never get there. TVM

i know exactly what you mean

the one time you think sod it, i'm not going to come off at this junction it will be the one you should have, 10 mile u-turn detour later your back there again

To be honest thats why i often play the route in preview mode if i haven't a clue where i am going  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

I used to use a GPS enabled DPA with Navman routing software and it did the same thing - it read junctions as part of the routing. After many complaints to navman by users they did a downloadable patch that cured it. My RRS has taken to doing the same thing recently and I wonder if it has to do with the routing settings because SWMBO in the dashboard never used to utter a word on long trips and now she nags at every junction after I had some accessory driving lights fitted to the car which meant disconnecting the battery. I have now silenced the voice completely as it is so annoying on a long journey. How can carbon have a footprint, it has no feet?
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On this subject does anyone know somebody who fixes sat nays? Mine is broken, its saying that Liverpool is still in Europe!

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Bill Turner wrote:

On this subject does anyone know somebody who fixes sat nays? Mine is broken, its saying that Liverpool is still in Europe!

Bill Turner.

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My sat nav is just the same, it tells me to come off at junctions then get back on the next slip road, near me a bypass was opened about three years ago and it knows the bypass is there but it always routes the way through the village instead of using the bypass. I have a choice here of getting to the M25 (about 20 miles away using the A41 or the old road which runs almost parallel to it but it wants me to use the old road but not the new one. Going back to the Tomtom.  p****d off with a Digital Keyboard Warrior

I think the built-in satnav is always using the 'shortest distance' method of route planning. Decent standalone units give you the choice of that or 'shortest time', as well as weeding out obviously crazy routes. I've seen:

Leave and rejoin the motorway at the same exit

Take road through busy town, instead of taking the dual-carriageway bypass

Take 'short cut' via farm track to save 200 yards, as A road follows curve

On the old Navman I used to use in Holland there was one point on a straight road where at the traffic lights it would tell you to take a right just to make a U-turn 5 meters up the road and joing back onto the same road.......very strange. Once you've tasted GREY you'll never go back!

The Sat Nav in my Freelander 2 which I know cannot be trusted as it will take you off Motorways and then back on the otherside, at the week end it did a strange one. Travelling out on the A40 out of Oxford towards Witney on a straight bit of road, it wanted me to turn in to a Lay-By which was around 20 metres long. It said " In two Hundred Yards Turn Left then Turn Left" the map was also displaying what it wanted me to do, basicly leave the main A40 turn into the Lay-By then turn left again to rejoin the Main Road. This was on a perfectly straight bit of road which would have increased the distance of travel so it was not choosing a shorter route. Who programmes these Sat Navs to do this?  p****d off with a Digital Keyboard Warrior

makes me wonder if the satnav company has a car tracking itself to map new roads, old road, whatever roads and the chap pulled into the layby for a p stop and a bacon butty and forgot to turn the tracker off  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Traveling back from Scotland last week, I knew there were major road works on the A80 in Cumbernauld, so I picked a suggested route which avoided the area. As I left the M80 the sat nav told me the rest of the journey would take 2h 3mins, which is about right. Anyway after following the suggested route across country for about 25 mins I checked again, and now I only had 2h 38mins to go! As soon as I hit the M8 I let my internal map take over.

Yesterday mine was telling me to do lefts then right when I knew straight on would be better, went in to options and unmarked the TMC option since then it has been fine. if the TMC option is highlighted the sat nav automatically tries to route you round problems. Now I still have the TMC announcements and I can then choose to find another route should I want to.  p****d off with a Digital Keyboard Warrior

Do we get any software updates or new disks to the sat nav; to rectify what is at present a completely useless piece of equipment?

WGG1848 wrote:

Do we get any software updates or new disks to the sat nav; to rectify what is at present a completely useless piece of equipment?

my new disc did update software or so it said on the screen

The road system will only be as good as the company that maps them and with them changing all the time, the disc will always need updating

IMO the satnav is fine, bar the lack of speed camera etc, better than sticking, unsticking a satnav to the screen or cubbyhole each time you get in and out of the car so you don't come on first name terms with the local autoglass dealership  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis