The Great One
Junior Member
I was very excited about getting my new truck. I love the truck. I hate what I paid for it. But I am really shocked that more people aren't outraged by the stupidity of the navigation system. I have had Garmin Navigation systems of one kind or another for about 17 years. I know how to use one. The system in our 2019 trucks is ridiculous. For example, I am about 1 mile from my local Lowes store. I ask it for directions. It gave me multiple Lowes all 80 to 200 miles away. It skiped the four closest to me. So to tested it further - I ask for my local Walmart. Same thing it skips the five Walmart's closest to me. I have tried asking it for different subway locations sometimes it works sometimes it just keeps asking me to say a POI, category, or name.
I was recently in the town of Crescent City, Fl. I asked for Restaurants. It gave me restaurants in Tampa, St Pete, Jupiter but nothing in Crescent City. PS those other locations were all over 100 miles away. When I ask for a specific address it frequently decides that I want to call a number that it makes up and asks if I want to call it now. I have tried having my wife ask for the information only to get the same results.
When it does give results it simply lists the location. I don't know if it is South of my current location, East, West, North. I am going North do I want to turn around to get to the one it listed 5 miles away that is really maybe 10 miles away or should I take the one that is 6 miles away to the North that may be right on my route? Most every Navigation system I have used give you an indicator to let you know how far away and which direction from your current location.
I tried to enter my doctors address by hand before I started driving because they don't believe my wife has the ability to enter information while I am driving. I could not find the address. I kept trying every time I stopped. Once I was about 2 miles from his office it located the address.
I have heard some joke or complain that it is difficult to use. This is simply incorrect. It is almost unusable. The best results I have experienced is when I manually enter the address but it does not work every time. Most of the time I use it to find the local BestBuy or Grocery Store or whatever for the town I am in. I don't have the address for the local Red Lobster, that is why I am using the voice option to ask for the location of my nearest store, restaurant, park, etc, etc. while I am driving.
I can hook up my Android Phone and ask Google for any of these items and it finds it immediately, but I have to pay airtime charges. I do not have an unlimited plan. Nor should I have to pay someone else to look up the information when I have a VERY EXPENSIVE 12 inch display screen in front of me.
I have taken my truck back to my dealer. After waiting for 10 minutes for a service tech to come out to me - I decided to walk in and find one of them. They simply shrugged their shoulders and said that is just the way it is.
So I now have to carry my 12 year old Garmin on my dash because my 65K truck can't find anything I ask for.
Why isn't something being done about this??????
I was recently in the town of Crescent City, Fl. I asked for Restaurants. It gave me restaurants in Tampa, St Pete, Jupiter but nothing in Crescent City. PS those other locations were all over 100 miles away. When I ask for a specific address it frequently decides that I want to call a number that it makes up and asks if I want to call it now. I have tried having my wife ask for the information only to get the same results.
When it does give results it simply lists the location. I don't know if it is South of my current location, East, West, North. I am going North do I want to turn around to get to the one it listed 5 miles away that is really maybe 10 miles away or should I take the one that is 6 miles away to the North that may be right on my route? Most every Navigation system I have used give you an indicator to let you know how far away and which direction from your current location.
I tried to enter my doctors address by hand before I started driving because they don't believe my wife has the ability to enter information while I am driving. I could not find the address. I kept trying every time I stopped. Once I was about 2 miles from his office it located the address.
I have heard some joke or complain that it is difficult to use. This is simply incorrect. It is almost unusable. The best results I have experienced is when I manually enter the address but it does not work every time. Most of the time I use it to find the local BestBuy or Grocery Store or whatever for the town I am in. I don't have the address for the local Red Lobster, that is why I am using the voice option to ask for the location of my nearest store, restaurant, park, etc, etc. while I am driving.
I can hook up my Android Phone and ask Google for any of these items and it finds it immediately, but I have to pay airtime charges. I do not have an unlimited plan. Nor should I have to pay someone else to look up the information when I have a VERY EXPENSIVE 12 inch display screen in front of me.
I have taken my truck back to my dealer. After waiting for 10 minutes for a service tech to come out to me - I decided to walk in and find one of them. They simply shrugged their shoulders and said that is just the way it is.
So I now have to carry my 12 year old Garmin on my dash because my 65K truck can't find anything I ask for.
Why isn't something being done about this??????