Disclaimer: Links on this page pointing to Amazon, eBay and other sites may include affiliate code. If you click them and make a purchase, we may earn a small commission.
I got a snail mail version a couple days ago. I dropped my 2010 LR4 off at the dealership today and noticed a display with some advertisement about the update. It said something like, "Is your navigation system spending a lot of time recalculating? You could be wasting lots of valuable time and gas!!"
Really? We don't generally keep our cars long enough to make updates worth it. I'm considering it, however. When we lived in CA if I entered "Starbucks" while near San Francisco, it would route me 384 miles away. To the nearest one. Right. I never use it here in NY unless I have a physical address to plug in.
Does anyone have any luck with the POI option actually accurately bringing up most to all their requests?
LR will NOT get $250 from me for an update that in my opinion should be given to us for free! Any other software i have owned for GPS never charged me for any updates of the maps. I really do not think this is fair..at all. First the GPS seems like it was put together by apprentice software programmers in school, second the product is inferior (No traffic?) and lastly all it is are updates to maps you may never need and it promises a quicker interface? C'mon Landrover!
If they updated the entire SOFTWARE to what is now in the 2012 models than i would consider it as it do include traffic, better voice commands and it promises a much cleaner user interface (so i guess they read our forums!) with a much better and full listing's of POI's.
I guess they just look towards the future and forgetting all of us who brought the older models. At the min they should include the 2010's in any update to software enhancements.
I owned a 2004 Pacifica (Piece of crap) and in 2008, the update was FREE. I will admit it was DVD based but still...update is still an update. I do know some make and models, the dealership require you to pay for an update but i would say the same thing about all them. I don't believe in paying for something that i feel should be a right to us to have. I mean when i chose the technology package it states comes with an working GPS installed. I would think for the life of the vehicle, anything that GPS needs to perform adequately to the standards of the first day it was purchased should be given to us unless there is usage damage by the owner. In this modern day of technology there are workarounds to avoid being tethered to more charges. These are my opinions and i don't mean to come off biased or anything so my apologies if i am. I am just a consumer and i feel our financial rights have been abused in regards to certain things. I suppose.