Subaru Outback - Silly Subaru Sat Nav

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Fri 4 Nov 2016 21:42
Subaru Outback - Silly Subaru Sat Nav - Cluedo
This is a potential issues for the good v bad on the car by car reviews. I took my March 2016 Outback into the dealer today to ask them to look at my sat nav. The system is fitted with traffic management alerts and is supposed to colour the roads differently depending on volume of traffic and stoppages etc. just like many other systems. The problem is that the system is not showing any traffic isssues and says that there are none when you ask for a report even though the road may actually be closed due to an incident.
The dealer could not find the problem solution and so phoned the Subaru help desk who by all accounts are very good. Anyway - I got the answer and it was that the latest update to the system fitted to all new cars actually wiped this functionality from the units.
Subaru are currently working with the Sat Nav supplier on a new software update but could not tell me when it will be available.
I am disappointed because I paid for some functionality I find useful and also I was not informed about this at the time of buying the car (assuming they knew about this in March).
Silly Subaru !
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Mon 7 Nov 2016 12:50
Subaru Outback - Silly Subaru Sat Nav - Cyd

I have just two words for you:

Google Maps (on your phone)

Sorry, but maybe someone can help me out here: I just don't get why anyone would pay good money for an incar system of any description, when Google Maps is so good for free!

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Mon 7 Nov 2016 13:38
Subaru Outback - Silly Subaru Sat Nav - RobJP

I have just two words for you:

Google Maps (on your phone)

Sorry, but maybe someone can help me out here: I just don't get why anyone would pay good money for an incar system of any description, when Google Maps is so good for free!

The simple answer to that is that lots of the UK still don't get any 3G signal to actually use Google Maps on phones. Relying on your phone for a satnav would be impossible in large parts of Scotland, Wales, rural England.

I'm sitting in work right now, on an Industrial Estate that, in total, employs close on 2k people, on the outskirts of a town that has 15k residents. No 3G on my phone though. Five 'bars' of signal, but GPRS.

Get outside the big cities and suburbia where 4G is being trumpeted as the new standard, and you'll find a very different reality.

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Wed 16 Nov 2016 11:54
Subaru Outback - Silly Subaru Sat Nav - Dabooka

Here! We Go (ignore the silly name).

It was Nokia's superior mapping app that now belongs to Daimler. It allows you to download maps for offline use, just used it on holiday with no data connection at all and was faultless. I choose to use it for work here in the UK too.

Google Maps now allows the same, I just happen to prefer Here.

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Wed 16 Nov 2016 12:13
Subaru Outback - Silly Subaru Sat Nav - daveyjp

I have Navmii and Sygic on my phone for emergency use (maps are downloaded so no live map data requirement) should I not have my satnav with me.

Handy for occasional use, but not as good as my Garmin.

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Mon 7 Nov 2016 14:30
Subaru Outback - Silly Subaru Sat Nav - NARU

I have just two words for you:

Google Maps (on your phone)

Sorry, but maybe someone can help me out here: I just don't get why anyone would pay good money for an incar system of any description, when Google Maps is so good for free!

Two additional words: Android Auto

www.android.com/intl/en_uk/auto/

Kia say that UK cars will be upgraded to it next year - I'm looking forward to it!

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Tue 15 Nov 2016 18:02
Subaru Outback - Silly Subaru Sat Nav - Cluedo
Cyd - I paid the princely sum of £0 for the sat nav system. It's a Subaru so they are standard unless you wanted me to pay them to remove it.

Edited by Cluedo on 15/11/2016 at 18:03

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