Aygo Sat Nav 2014

[Roodles]

Has anyone had trouble with a 2014 Sat Nav for the Aygo? My sat nav sends me on a much longer route than necessary, sometimes in the opposite direction to where I want to go! I have been back to the dealer three times now but they test in the local area and say it is fine. However, today it tried to send me from Writtle in Essex to Gravesend in Kent via a non-existent road at Grays across the river. I love my Aygo to bits and am always singing its praises but even I don't think it can manage the River Thames. Has anyone else had problems like this?

[Dark Matter]

There are reports on this forum of owners experiencing calculation of illogical routes and /or getting journey times wrong. But this sounds like an error with the map data to me. If you have been routed down a road that doesn't exist that would certainly
seem to be the case. It IS a road isn't it? – Not a ferry crossing (considering the location). What do the route INSTRUCTIONS say? Specifically what is the number of the road you are supposed to be on in order to cross the river?

I’ve used my Aygo Nav quite a lot and can honestly say it works very well and I have never had an issue with the accuracy. I agree it has silly limitations (no clock, no spoken road names for example) but I don’t hate it as much as some owners seem to.

[Roodles]

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, it looks like the sat nav was sending me over the passenger ferry at Tilbury. I didn't actually follow the route as I knew the way home anyway, but was testing the sat nav as it has given me several bad routes over the past year, including time issues also. The sat nav took me straight to my destination on the way there, it was only on the way back that it decided to go off track for some reason.

I'm not too worried about not having a clock, or spoken road names, but would at least like to have a route that isn't going to take me two hours longer than normal. I certainly don't feel it was worth the money I paid for it.

[Phil White]

The satnav in the 2014 model is a sore point with me and I have posted my issues on here some time ago, biggest waste of my money buying this option.

[Martin1973]

At £400 as an option I'm surprised anyone would pay that for a Sat Nav. I was tempted by the climate control but again the options seem rather expensive for a city car. Now if they could just get the mirror link working I could use the free sat Nav on my phone.

[Dark Matter]

It is expensive compared to a dedicated sat nav. I have a new Tom Tom costing less than £100 for use in hire cars, loan cars etc. I would agree the Tom Tom performs better, has more functions and has superbly designed logical interface than the one built into the Aygo.

But I still prefer to have the Nav built in just for sheer convenience. No wires everywhere, no Battery running out at crucial time no reliance on having a data connection, a nice big screen etc etc

Users that are having serious accuracy issues may not of course take this charitable view.

My personal opinion is that the cost of the nav option is small when compared to the overall cost of the car. Anyway, if you didn’t negotiate it as a freebie as I did you didn’t try very hard to get much of a deal when you bought the car!

By coincidence( and probably because I said I had no problems) I did have an accuracy issue yesterday. A familiar journey was calculated at 2 hours duration which is wildly optimistic. I have never done it in less than 2.5 hours even on a “good run”. In addition 10 minutes into the journey the Nav system blanked and rebooted – which is rather alarming at 70mph on a motorway to be faced with a “dead” screen … my immediate though was that car had stalled- unlikely – but an instinctive reaction when you instrumentation goes blank. If it happens again I will have to get it looked at. My only consolation is that the excellent system in my partner’s Audi does this very occasionally (maybe twice in 3 years).

Maybe we have to accept computers are like that. Sometimes they do strange things for no apparent reason.