T180 Sat Nav Question

[daern]

Has anyone here got a new T180? If so, is the Sat Nav mapping reasonably up to date?

In fact, has anyone got any comments to make about Toyota's touch screen Sat Nav system? (the one fitted to the 2006 XT5 + T180 models, BTW)

Good?

Bad?

Annoying?

Expensive? (well, apart from the £25k+ car underneath it ;) )

Any comments welcomed!

[Easy]

Has anyone here got a new T180? If so, is the Sat Nav mapping reasonably up to date?

In fact, has anyone got any comments to make about Toyota's touch screen Sat Nav system? (the one fitted to the 2006 XT5 + T180 models, BTW)

Good?

Bad?

Annoying?

Expensive? (well, apart from the £25k+ car underneath it ;) )

Any comments welcomed!

Hi Daern, i've got a 2006 XT5 with sat nav, i find it quite difficult to use, not as easy as my last car (Lexus RX300) but i think this is the latest one they do. I suppose i should spend several days reading the manual, but who does! Love the car though.

[daern]

Hi Daern, i've got a 2006 XT5 with sat nav, i find it quite difficult to use, not as easy as my last car (Lexus RX300) but i think this is the latest one they do. I suppose i should spend several days reading the manual, but who does! Love the car though.

Cool. I had a play when I took the car out for a test drive and (despite all of my instincts telling me otherwise) I remember saying that this was probably going to need a cursory read of the manual...

Anyway, car arrives this week (hopefully) so I'll no doubt get to grips.

BTW, have you noticed any new roads that are missing from it? I can usually date mapping updates from whether they have the M6 Toll (I would hope most do now!) and the Bingley Bypass (which opened in 2004). I should have probably checked this out when I did the test drive, but hey ho.

Glad you like it :-)

Daern

[Easy]

Hi Daern, i've got a 2006 XT5 with sat nav, i find it quite difficult to use, not as easy as my last car (Lexus RX300) but i think this is the latest one they do. I suppose i should spend several days reading the manual, but who does! Love the car though.

Cool. I had a play when I took the car out for a test drive and (despite all of my instincts telling me otherwise) I remember saying that this was probably going to need a cursory read of the manual...

Anyway, car arrives this week (hopefully) so I'll no doubt get to grips.

BTW, have you noticed any new roads that are missing from it? I can usually date mapping updates from whether they have the M6 Toll (I would hope most do now!) and the Bingley Bypass (which opened in 2004). I should have probably checked this out when I did the test drive, but hey ho.

Glad you like it :-)Hi Daern, i read on a previos Lexus owners club site that the M6 toll road can not be shown on Sat Nav Discs as it is a private road, don't know if this is true or not! anyway good luck with your car. Baz

Daern

[daern]

Hi Daern, i read on a previos Lexus owners club site that the M6 toll road can not be shown on Sat Nav Discs as it is a private road, don't know if this is true or not! anyway good luck with your car. Baz

"My @rse"

TomTom (and indeed every other major sat nav manufacturer) has had the M6 Toll on it for years. I'll be pretty fed up if it doesn't even have that on it...

Ta for the reply though ;)

Daern (off to check the Lexus forums!)

[daern]

Hi Daern, i read on a previos Lexus owners club site that the M6 toll road can not be shown on Sat Nav Discs as it is a private road, don't know if this is true or not! anyway good luck with your car. Baz

"My @rse"

TomTom (and indeed every other major sat nav manufacturer) has had the M6 Toll on it for years. I'll be pretty fed up if it doesn't even have that on it...

Ta for the reply though ;)

Daern (off to check the Lexus forums!)

Well it's looking like Lexus *do* now have the M6 Toll on their maps. Here's hoping the Toyota one is bang up to date - rest assured that I will be putting pressure on the dealer to make sure it is!

Daern

[chatman]

Hi Daern, i read on a previos Lexus owners club site that the M6 toll road can not be shown on Sat Nav Discs as it is a private road, don't know if this is true or not! anyway good luck with your car. Baz

"My @rse"

TomTom (and indeed every other major sat nav manufacturer) has had the M6 Toll on it for years. I'll be pretty fed up if it doesn't even have that on it...

Ta for the reply though ;)

Daern (off to check the Lexus forums!)

Well it's looking like Lexus *do* now have the M6 Toll on their maps. Here's hoping the Toyota one is bang up to date - rest assured that I will be putting pressure on the dealer to make sure it is!

Daern

I have a TomTom Nav5 for ny HP iPAG... It has the M6 toll but the new A120 past Stansted is not on it. :ffs: :ffs: thinks i'm driving in a field....It has been built a while now....

[daern]

I have a TomTom Nav5 for ny HP iPAG... It has the M6 toll but the new A120 past Stansted is not on it. :ffs: :ffs: thinks i'm driving in a field....It has been built a while now....

Have you bought the mapping subscription update from www.tomtom.com? I suspect that this will sort it for you. It certainly sorts the Bingley Bypass on mine...

[chatman]

I have a TomTom Nav5 for ny HP iPAG... It has the M6 toll but the new A120 past Stansted is not on it. :ffs: :ffs: thinks i'm driving in a field....It has been built a while now....

Have you bought the mapping subscription update from www.tomtom.com? I suspect that this will sort it for you. It certainly sorts the Bingley Bypass on mine...

Already reigistered with TomTom.... Awaiting when they release the next updates....

Thanks for the info....

[Toyota PR]

New sat nav graphics - such as in new IS and RAV4 - are based on Michelin maps so much more familiar to the eye. Buttons and the like also revised and I think better/clearer.

Not sure about M6 toll road as last time I was on it I was in an 05 GS and it seemed to know bits of it. However, ruddy great blue signs by the road mean you'll be unlikely to miss it when you need it!

Have to say - and I would say, wouldn't I - that our sat nav is one of, if not the easiest to use being very instinctive. That said, reading the instructions is never a bad idea. The engineers always get quite down and surprised when they discover the sexy new features they have sweated blood to develop go unnoticed by customers who never open the handbook.

As for TomTom don't get me started....

[chatman]

New sat nav graphics - such as in new IS and RAV4 - are based on Michelin maps so much more familiar to the eye. Buttons and the like also revised and I think better/clearer.

Not sure about M6 toll road as last time I was on it I was in an 05 GS and it seemed to know bits of it. However, ruddy great blue signs by the road mean you'll be unlikely to miss it when you need it!

Have to say - and I would say, wouldn't I - that our sat nav is one of, if not the easiest to use being very instinctive. That said, reading the instructions is never a bad idea. The engineers always get quite down and surprised when they discover the sexy new features they have sweated blood to develop go unnoticed by customers who never open the handbook.

As for TomTom don't get me started....

Nice to see Toyota PR taking in all our queries....

Thanks for your comments....

[daern]

Not sure about M6 toll road as last time I was on it I was in an 05 GS and it seemed to know bits of it. However, ruddy great blue signs by the road mean you'll be unlikely to miss it when you need it!

Ah, but when it comes to routing it's *very* important. If you are driving from Skipton to London, it's pretty much evens as to whether to go down the M6 or the M1 and traffic is the key. Of course, if your navigation system doesn't know about the M6 Toll, then this puts a big spanner in the accuracy of the routing...

Have to say - and I would say, wouldn't I - that our sat nav is one of, if not the easiest to use being very instinctive. That said, reading the instructions is never a bad idea. The engineers always get quite down and surprised when they discover the sexy new features they have sweated blood to develop go unnoticed by customers who never open the handbook.

As for TomTom don't get me started....

As a very active TomTom user, I'm interested to see if your comments about the Toyota system are justified. My T180 arrives next week, so we'll see... ;)

[Bernie H]

Be gentle with me a\s this is my first post. However, I took delivery of my T180 about 6 weeks ago, and I'm still grinning, until I get my bank statement each month, but hey ho. It took awhile to get used to the Satnav having spent 12 months with Tomtom. I find that the routes are more "sensible" than some of TomToms, but I still run TomTom together with in Toyota Satnav simply for the POIs {traffic cameras} that cannot be added to the builtin system. So, to sum up: TomTom for cameras, builtin for navigation. I have heard that the next gen of systems will come with memory card expansion to enable traffic camera etc