Satnav

[apersson850]

By the way, if I get a route suggstion from A-town to B-town that passes C-town, but I by experience or other preference would like the route to pass D-town instead, I typically use the voice command to ask the system to insert D-town into the travel plan.
This will give a new route. When I'm approaching D-town, I can again use the voice command to eliminate D-town from the route, since I probably don't actually want to enter into D-town, just pass by. By that time I'm already close enough to D-town to maintain a route passing D-town.

[Tatsfield]

Thanks for that workaround. I tend to now not use the voice command after it couldn't recognise "London" no matter how I pronounced it! The worry for me would be that if it continued to act up when putting in this extra waypoint it would become a major distraction while driving.

[apersson850]

Have you gone through the voice "teaching" procedure?

That it's missing some obscure minor city, is that really an issue? :-)

[Tatsfield]

I may not have gone through the voice teaching procedure. It'sa been a year or more since I bought the car and I cannot remember. I'll give it a go.

London is less attractive these days for D5 engined cars. They already charge a fee for internal combustion engined cars entering the city but they are proposing to add an additional charge for diesel engines. 5 years ago the government was strongarming car owners to buy diesel cars and now they are to be punished for having done so. I would expect my XC70 to last up to 20 years with careful use and routine maintenance, and it is this which justifies spending the extra on the purchase of a Volvo, but now it is possible that the pressure to scrap this great piece of automotive engineering is going to increase as our law makers do a 180° turn on what is and what is not pollution.

[apersson850]

Regarding diesels it's the same here. I think it's the VW fiasco that woke the politicians up and gave them the idea to turn the rules around completely.

[Gazzza]

Originally Posted by apersson850

The bad thing with my edition is that you can't bring it with you to find a place to go, when you aren't in the car. But later models take care of that by allowing you to transfer a destination from your phone to the navigation device.

beauty of my new garmin.... pass info to phone and vice versa

[Vol S80 Lux]

Originally Posted by Simon Jones

You can get 2015 maps for that model for under £30 on ebay

Really?? Is it just a simple case of swapping the discs?

[Simon Jones]

Check if this is the correct one for yours (it may not be) but you can now get 2018(!) maps. That's forward planning

https://www.satnavdisc.co.uk/Volvo/v...av-disc-update

[apersson850]

Originally Posted by Gazzza

beauty of my new garmin.... pass info to phone and vice versa

Exactly. Slightly newer Volvos than mine does the same.