C300 BP

I am having a issue with the navigation of my 2009 C300...When I try to use the "By name" search for a POI, the outputs give me the location(s) no where near where I am. For instances I can be right next to a McDonald in Fayetteville, NC, but when I put it in "By Name" it seems to give me all the McDonalds in alphabetical order by location, starting with somewhere in Alabama or something else. I just want to find the nearest place. I just may be doing something wrong but I can not figure this out...

anyone....?

tanktube67

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sameer13

The manual is no help here. This is the same problem for me. I get all locations in the US prior to getting locations in Canada and then I get other provinces first.

This is a known issue.

justthinking

if you know where you are or your destination location, try enter either zip code or town name in the address field (destination entry) then go to poi there (don't use the nearby poi function if you want to spell the name)

C300 BP

The manual gives me no help...I just spoke with a rep at the MB Service center, which he tested that feature with a vehicle there and came up with the same issue, in which he had no fix for. They gave me some statement/excuse, that only certain places have paid to be on the software....huh?

len56

great... I'll be using my iPhone to find adresses then... (I don't want to go through all US locations first xD)

acr2001

My (W203) navi does the exact same thing. I thought it was some kind of bug and they would have learned WTF they're doing by now!! You've got to be kidding me!! I entered "Home Depot" and got one 3000 miles away at the top of the list.

CrAZyVeGAsBoY

To answer ur question i actually used my teli aid and ask this same question, answer, our nav system dosent work that way, u cant find pos places like that, the only way u can get specific on a location is by number or address, yeah it blows.

Jae Duk

Yea I remember this issue with mine and I think the only way around it is to just go to enter POI and pick the location you want, then pick the category and then the name...if you do it like that it's fine

joshg1001

isnt there a button called "destination/POI from current location" ? or something like that?

CrAZyVeGAsBoY

yeah but they will only give u certain type of places, ex. gas stations, banks, ect. which are the closest things to ur position at the time, like i said only way to get "exact" places is to either get lucky or use phone number or address.

joshg1001

it is best to input the city again, and then search from there. i have never had a problem with this

dchansen

Does anyone know if they are going to fix this in an update or something? It is completely ridiculous that you cannot type in Starbucks and find the closest to you. I have tried everything and it is certainly a screwup by Mercedes that they must fix. They have a search by name function so naturally it should return the closest matches!!!!