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I'm guessing you had the BBC forecast? I use my phone for sat-nav duties in the car and a BlueTooth FM transmitter so i can have music playing on the phone, soft-fade to sat-nag instruction, soft-fade back to music all playing through the car speakers. The good thing is, Google Maps updates regularly and is free so is always up to date or as near as possible. It does have some problem with house numbers though, it puts my home address about 100 yards further up the main part of the road i live in round the corner and about 50 yards behind my home. Even telling it the particular spot i happen to be stood in when in the front garden is my home, it doesn't believe me! |
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Alternatively, some good old red tape on it should suffice! :tounge_smile: |
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The Porsche and Skoda both have built is SATNAV systems, both are excellent, but the limitation is that the maps get out of date. When Dan and I were driving to Essex last week we spent about 10 minutes doing 70 MPH across a farmer's field that looked just like the brand new A14 dual carriageway. Some new maps for the Skoda arrived from an online trader I've used previously - at substantially less cost than the £200 Skoda dealers charge for the update. When Bob and I get back I'll load them, a pretty unskilled job, but it does take an hour or so and sometimes needs a little intervention (pressing 'continue' buttons and so on). My plan is to do as you do with the Royal Barge. The aftermarket radio is a Sony, which has a nice app that can be downloaded onto one's cell phone to control all the menu functions as well as Google maps and playing music. Eeek! The heavy rain has started again whilst I have been typing this, I'll give it another 10 minutes before Bob's walk to see if it eases off. :-) |
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We just got back from our walk in the sleety rain - half an hour was plenty for me today, but Bob is pleased to be walking again and would have carried on for miles.
I got a call from the tyre fitter while we were out saying my replacement for the Porsche has arrived, so I'll get that fitted this afternoon. They are 265/45R18 on that car; I found a nail in the sidewall of one of the rears last week (in an uncharitable moment I couldn't help thinking someone might have put it there deliberately, envy damage comes with flash cars every now and then). I plugged the hole and it held up really well (didn't lose any pressure in a week), and whilst plugs are fine for quad bikes they are not a long term solution for a 270 HP car. It will get me to the tyre fitters without having to take the wheel off, which saves a bit of effort. It is too cold and miserable outside to start another job on the RB today. :-) |
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Sat back down with my breakfast and looked out the window, the rain was coming down like a giant pressure washer! Mine might not get her daily trot today! :nah: First satnav i had was a Magellan one, bought new about 12 years ago and i remember driving across what i said was a farmers field on a new road between Caxton Gibbet/Eynesbury and Papworth village about a month after getting it! :eek: So far i haven't had that or similar using Gaggle Mops on the phone, even on new bits of the A14 or anywhere else i've been. I still have the original factory fit rad/cass head unit and 6-disc CD changer in my Rover and as i just happened to have a spare set-up and no music in my Volvo, i fitted my spare one in there - makes life easier when driving the other one as the head units are similar. Both have BlueTooth FM transmitters and it all works well for me that way - each to their own on that one though! I like the idea of an app to control the stereo on your Sony though, something i may think about if i ever need to replace either head unit! Just seen your latest post Alan, i started typing about the time you posted it i think! |
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Alternatively : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-x-Small...-/140938481468 From memory of the sizes needed, the second link should fit - please check the size of yours before purchase though! |
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Google Maps seems to work really well. My son and I have been looking at new houses recently, and as often as not they are absent from both the cars’ SATNAV systems, but they have always been on Google Maps, so we have ended up with Dan navigating the last few miles on an iPad whilst the expensive car SATNAVs show us driving around a farmer’s field. The Sony app is quite nice, instead of just pairing the cell phone (which it does as well) it prompts a download of the app, which then allows all the system functions of the head unit to be accessed remotely. It controls the audio sources as well. I’m sure all the manufacturers will soon catch up, but Sony is the first I’ve seen with a cell phone app. The weather seems to be brightening up a bit (well, less dense clouds), so it may improve for you late afternoon - maybe your dog will get a walk after all. Alan |
No idea if the weather perked up although it's stopped raining now, i flaked out and was woken just before 6 by my hound, desperate to use the lawn.
Just seen the forecast for tomorrow and it should be dry so at least she'll get her walk tomorrow! |
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