OnStar Navigation
Safety Car
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From: CHOCOWINITY NC
Ha! Visuals? Nope. Voice only. You'll be much better off to buy a $150 Garmin than pay for this service.From their web site:
OnStar Turn-by-Turn Navigation is part of OnStar's award-winning Directions & Connections Plan. Through voice-guided directions, it can help you find your way to an address, business or practically any destination using our database of over 10 million points-of-interest. Stopping to ask for directions, fumbling with maps or printing out web directions are a thing of the past.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Central Florida
I have Nav in my car. I was just sniffing around OnStar since my service is due for renewal. I took a look at the navigation demo and it had voice and single line print out visual showing up on the vehicle's radio screen. I was just curious how it would be displayed in a Corvette. I am not necessarily thinking of subscribing to it.
Race Director
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From: Happiness is Busch in Victory Lane!
St. Jude Donor '09 & '12, '14
I have Nav in my car. I was just sniffing around OnStar since my service is due for renewal. I took a look at the navigation demo and it had voice and single line print out visual showing up on the vehicle's radio screen. I was just curious how it would be displayed in a Corvette. I am not necessarily thinking of subscribing to it.
Pro
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From: Franklin Square Long Island New York
Thank god I didn't buy my vette brand new because I would have been very upset paying all the extra money for the NAV. I really thought it was like a GPS where you type in a address and it takes you right there by following the screen, also I thought it was able to play DVD movies while in park boy was I wrong on this unit ha!
John
Long Island
John
Long Island
Team Owner
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From: Ocala FL
Thank god I didn't buy my vette brand new because I would have been very upset paying all the extra money for the NAV. I really thought it was like a GPS where you type in a address and it takes you right there by following the screen, also I thought it was able to play DVD movies while in park boy was I wrong on this unit ha!
John
Long Island
John
Long Island
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Pro
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From: Franklin Square Long Island New York
Where do you type the address you want to go to?
Pro
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From: Franklin Square Long Island New York
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Melting Slicks
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From: Central Florida
Actually that isn't what I am asking. Since I have NAv I really don't need OnStar's option. But what if I just had Bose and a 6 cd player? Where does the visual stuff get shown - on the DIC, radio screen, where, or maybe no where in the Corvette? Someone on this forum must have a subscription to this service.
Team Owner
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From: Ocala FL
At the risk of sounding like a wise a$$ it is normally done after hitting the Enter Destination button on the screen. It seems like you have not read any of the Navigation manual, so you would be wise to start there for the basics. If you for some reason don't have the manual, then go to the C6 FAQ sticky for a link to the PDF file for the manual.
Instructor
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From: Alexandria VA
Actually that isn't what I am asking. Since I have NAv I really don't need OnStar's option. But what if I just had Bose and a 6 cd player? Where does the visual stuff get shown - on the DIC, radio screen, where, or maybe no where in the Corvette? Someone on this forum must have a subscription to this service.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Feb 2007
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From: Currently somewhere in IL,IN,KY,TN,MO,AR,MS,AL, or FL
Press Menu/Enter destination. There are 2 pages of different ways to enter destinations. One thing that isn't pointed out in my manual is that you should always enter the city first if possible. This greatly reduces the number of possibilities it has to search through to find the street or POI you are looking for. Sometimes after entering the city first it only takes a couple of more characters and it pops up a list of the 5 or less possibilities. If you don't enter the city first, which sometimes with suburbs you don't know, you may have to type the entire name exactly the way it is is in the database (with very little help) before it can find it.
As suggested, read the manual and then dedicate an hour or so to playing with it. You will find it is a VERY powerful device that just doesn't get any respect because people won't take the time to learn how to use it.
As suggested, read the manual and then dedicate an hour or so to playing with it. You will find it is a VERY powerful device that just doesn't get any respect because people won't take the time to learn how to use it.
Le Mans Master
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From: Rochester New York
Ha! Visuals? Nope. Voice only. You'll be much better off to buy a $150 Garmin than pay for this service.From their web site:
OnStar Turn-by-Turn Navigation is part of OnStar's award-winning Directions & Connections Plan. Through voice-guided directions, it can help you find your way to an address, business or practically any destination using our database of over 10 million points-of-interest. Stopping to ask for directions, fumbling with maps or printing out web directions are a thing of the past.
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Melting Slicks
Joined: Dec 2005
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From: Central Florida
