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Actually, I want to hear by those of you using it.
How is the routing?
Does it reroute you when you drive away from the route it has selected?
Destination time/distance is it accurate?
Can you find POI on the route it has calculated?
If anyone here could send me a PDF of the actual navigation manual I'd be grateful
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Please don't tell I just spent $1800 on this and my $100 iGuidance 2009 PDA software does it better...my wife is goign to kill me
Actually, I want to hear by those of you using it.
How is the routing?
Does it reroute you when you drive away from the route it has selected?
Destination time/distance is it accurate?
Can you find POI on the route it has calculated?
If anyone here could send me a PDF of the actual navigation manual I'd be grateful
Actually, I want to hear by those of you using it.
How is the routing?
Does it reroute you when you drive away from the route it has selected?
Destination time/distance is it accurate?
Can you find POI on the route it has calculated?
If anyone here could send me a PDF of the actual navigation manual I'd be grateful
Yes it reroutes, I think all navis from this century do that, unless I'm misunderstading the question
Dest time/distance - never looked at it so don't know. I guess it can be only as accurate as it can be. If you are driving 80mph it'll be one time, and when you slow down to 40mph that time will have to change.
Not sure about POI. You can find POI by distance from you, but I think once you have a route you have to cancel it to enter another new destination of POI. What it does tho is if you are on a highway I'll show what's coming up at next 3-4 exits and in how many miles those exits are.
Don't have PDF, never really needed it, it's pretty simple to use.
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There is an option to change the display preference. I don't remember the places to set the option, but I remember you have choice on 1) time/distance to destination, 2) name of the current street, 3) Long/Lat info
You can add POI after the route is set as a waypoint
You can add POI after the route is set as a waypoint
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Please don't tell I just spent $1800 on this and my $100 iGuidance 2009 PDA software does it better...my wife is goign to kill me
Actually, I want to hear by those of you using it.
How is the routing?
Excellent.
Does it reroute you when you drive away from the route it has selected?
Yes.
Destination time/distance is it accurate?
Yes, very accurate for me. +- a few mins at most.
Actually, I want to hear by those of you using it.
How is the routing?
Excellent.
Does it reroute you when you drive away from the route it has selected?
Yes.
Destination time/distance is it accurate?
Yes, very accurate for me. +- a few mins at most.
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Garmin has FREE life time Live Traffic and speaks the name of the street. If you want Live Traffic feature in the GLK, you have to subscribe to Sirius’s paid service.
If the OEM Navigation had some of the feature from Mercedes’s UMI (Universal Media Interface) like FREE life time Live Traffic and A2DP (Bluetooth Audio Streaming), I would have purchased it.
I may be bias because I don’t have built-in Navigation on my GLK and I just leave my Garmin in my glove box just in case. I think I used it twice since I bought my GLK more than 6 month ago.
Also, GLK is my wife’s ride and she said she rather have H/K sound system more than Navigation.
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I hated dealing with portable navi. I hated taking it out mounting it, waiting for it to load, taking it down when leaving car in parking lots. Also my old portable navi didn't have voice commands and it was a pain to enter destination, especailly when driving.
Also in my case GLK's navi wasn't stand alone option. Premium sound and rearview camera with bigger/nicer screen is what sold me. I actually expected Navi to be pretty bad, but was pleasantly surprized. It might not have all the latest bells but it does what it's supposed to very well.
Also in my case GLK's navi wasn't stand alone option. Premium sound and rearview camera with bigger/nicer screen is what sold me. I actually expected Navi to be pretty bad, but was pleasantly surprized. It might not have all the latest bells but it does what it's supposed to very well.
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I don't think you can compare feature for feature the latest Garmin with what you get in the GLK. The new Garmins are amazing, 3D, real time and bigger screens at a low price. But with the Nav you get integration with your Audio and Bluetooth connected phone. So you get auto muting of the radio, option to call the destination if its a resturant or business. Is it worth $1800? no, is a Mercedes worth the price you pay? probably not. Do you want the 7" Nav built in or a stand alone model plasterd to your dash or windshield, it all comes down to a matter of personal preference.
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I don't think you can compare feature for feature the latest Garmin with what you get in the GLK. The new Garmins are amazing, 3D, real time and bigger screens at a low price. But with the Nav you get integration with your Audio and Bluetooth connected phone. So you get auto muting of the radio, option to call the destination if its a resturant or business. Is it worth $1800? no, is a Mercedes worth the price you pay? probably not. Do you want the 7" Nav built in or a stand alone model plasterd to your dash or windshield, it all comes down to a matter of personal preference.
I have no problem paying for built-in Navigation, if it had some of the feature that’s import to me like FREE live traffic integration for instance.
So instead I went and bought portable GPS and with left over money, purchased a Winter Alloy wheel and tire package.
Honestly, how often do you use your Navigation in your car? Maybe I just don’t travel to unknown area enough. If you are in Sales or something like that I probably have more use for built-in Navigation.
By the way, to answer you question “is a Mercedes worth the price?” Absolutely (at least GLK)
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If you use dynamic routing, then the build in nav will use the traffic info and find the fastest route for you. I find that extreme useful in LA's traffic.
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