eagleeye

Is this thing really this bad? Just sat in my car with the owner's manual for an hour. It didnt recognize my own street or many others for that matter, nor known addresses that I tried to enter. It only listed like maybe 2% of the streets in my town; on the map zoomed all the way in, only major roads were displayed (no sidestreets). Nothing like my wife's Lexus RX330 which has every single street displayed.

If I'm not mistaken by my preliminary experience, this system for navigation is essentially useless.

BTW I did check to see if the DVD was loaded and it was.

Help!

miroj

That SPECIFIC version of the DVD is useless. That is where the data comes from.

eagleeye

Then why dont I have it/ where do I get it. With a different DVD does the system work well?

norb

Wait till you find out that it won't take you to a specific numbered address, but instead will only lead you to the block!

mbprince

yesterday, I got a ride home from a chrysler dealer (jeep thing) in a chrysler minivan and I could enter my entire address!! I had heard that at some point MB was going to have new software and fix the closest intersection crap. Even my little handheld gps does better.

PS - MB did install the new 'box' in my E55 that finally got rid of the phone echo problem.

pilot20

Correct me if I'm wrong but GPS (without WAAS) is only accurate to about 100 feet anyway so its not as if it can pinpoint your driveway with accuracy or anything like that.

Fikse

30 feet....

Saprissa

military grade: less than 3 feet

miroj

The Lexus / BMW system, made by VDO I understand, takes you to the front door and tells you which side of the street it is on.

However, the Mercedes system can flag a house within a block destination. I notice even with COMAND 2.0 that if I ask for House #25 and all it knows is 11-33 on the numbers range that it still knows where 25 is with the flag on the map.

pilot20

I thought it was 30 METERS which is about 100 feet.

Beowulf

I noticed the same discrepancy w/my '05 E55.

The Navi detail on the '04 S-class they gave me while we are still disputing the recent lot jockey damage my car sustained is excellent - lots of detail on side streets, etc. Even then, the Navi detail & info on my wife's former '04 Lexus LS430 blew the S-Class display in the ditch.

I wonder if it is the DVD at fault or some revision to the '05 COMAND system - or my newbie user ineptitude at defining the best display parameters? If the former, I'm thinking seriously of swapping DVD's to an earlier, more accurate version.

HarveyKorenzo

I had Navigation in the Lincoln I just sold and found the same problems... that's why I didn't order it in my E55.

wgee070478

The Lexus navi is made by Fujitsu-Ten which make the Eclipse mobile audio/video line. It's parent company is Denso. To be honest I know what you're talking about and I don't like it much either but the Lexus also has it's flaws too like a passenger can't set a destination while you're in motion or also like what I just recently found out, doesn't have the 3-5-7 trick so my COMAND can play DVD movie's now.

EX-BEEMER

Eagle...I feel your pain on the Navigational system... Mine does the same thing. It's not the hardware, it's the nav dvd. My disk is labeled 2004.2 and as of about three months ago, it was the most current. I called Navman, the company who makes the disks and they said next years update should be more complete. Should arrive next Spring, I told my dealership they're paying for the new update.

eagleeye

please tell about the 3-5-7 trick