Using 2008 GPS Navigation System
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Using 2008 GPS Navigation System
I have a 2008 C6 with the factory GPS navigation system and am finding it very clunky to use. If I set it for a destination and then, while enroute, decide to go somewhere else, the GPS keeps trying to direct me back to my original destination. How do I turn the system off? In the upper left of the navigation touch screen, it says "OFF" but when I press it nothing happens. What is that supposed to do?
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I have a 2008 C6 with the factory GPS navigation system and am finding it very clunky to use. If I set it for a destination and then, while enroute, decide to go somewhere else, the GPS keeps trying to direct me back to my original destination. How do I turn the system off? In the upper left of the navigation touch screen, it says "OFF" but when I press it nothing happens. What is that supposed to do?
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Cancel guidance is required anytime that a user selects a destination and decides to abort. If you don't cancel, then it will try to get you there.
The most effective way to plan a road trip, is to use Memory points.
Hotels, restaurants, places of interest etc can be pre selected and placed in memory points (4 categories)
This can be really useful if you want to take a certain highway, or route around a city instead of taking a chance of the auto selection from the NAV.
A hotel can be selected on the preferred route, and once you get on the preferred highway, select your final destination from the memory point, and it will get you there by the highway you want to be on.
The best thing about memory points is they can be selected while driving.
The NAV is a very strong system, but it takes a lot of playing around to learn all there is to know about it.
On most every road trip, I learn some new feature about the system.
The detour option comes in handy if you get caught on an interstate that is stopped due to an accident or other delay.
When you push Detour, at the next exit, the NAV will detour you as far as you think you need in miles. I select 5 miles, and it usually gets me by the delay.
The most effective way to plan a road trip, is to use Memory points.
Hotels, restaurants, places of interest etc can be pre selected and placed in memory points (4 categories)
This can be really useful if you want to take a certain highway, or route around a city instead of taking a chance of the auto selection from the NAV.
A hotel can be selected on the preferred route, and once you get on the preferred highway, select your final destination from the memory point, and it will get you there by the highway you want to be on.
The best thing about memory points is they can be selected while driving.
The NAV is a very strong system, but it takes a lot of playing around to learn all there is to know about it.
On most every road trip, I learn some new feature about the system.
The detour option comes in handy if you get caught on an interstate that is stopped due to an accident or other delay.
When you push Detour, at the next exit, the NAV will detour you as far as you think you need in miles. I select 5 miles, and it usually gets me by the delay.
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The Corvette Nav. is junk, the operating system was designed in the 90's and not updated since. Not user friendly at all.
Use Mapsco or Yahoo Maps and print directions, they'll be easier, more accurate and you don't have to read a 100 page tutorial to use them.
Use Mapsco or Yahoo Maps and print directions, they'll be easier, more accurate and you don't have to read a 100 page tutorial to use them.
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THE OEM NAV is a built in unit that interacts with the HUD, so for that alone, it's a plus because you don't have to take your eyes off the road to see your next turn.
BTW, I have the GARMIN unit in my other car, and find it a PITA to have it stuck on the windshield or on the dash.
It has better graphics, I'll give it that.
Maps with directions are great if you have a co-pilot that tells you to turn before you drive past the exit
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The c6 Nav is junk...to only those that don't want or take the time to learn it. It's as good or better than the Garmin or TOM TOM, but of course, those are more intuitive to use than the OEM NAV, so most will prefer those.
THE OEM NAV is a built in unit that interacts with the HUD, so for that alone, it's a plus because you don't have to take your eyes off the road to see your next turn.
BTW, I have the GARMIN unit in my other car, and find it a PITA to have it stuck on the windshield or on the dash.
It has better graphics, I'll give it that.
Maps with directions are great if you have a co-pilot that tells you to turn before you drive past the exit
THE OEM NAV is a built in unit that interacts with the HUD, so for that alone, it's a plus because you don't have to take your eyes off the road to see your next turn.
BTW, I have the GARMIN unit in my other car, and find it a PITA to have it stuck on the windshield or on the dash.
It has better graphics, I'll give it that.
Maps with directions are great if you have a co-pilot that tells you to turn before you drive past the exit
have had no problem with mine, of course, i took the time to read 100 pages.
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The c6 Nav is junk...to only those that don't want or take the time to learn it. It's as good or better than the Garmin or TOM TOM, but of course, those are more intuitive to use than the OEM NAV, so most will prefer those.
THE OEM NAV is a built in unit that interacts with the HUD, so for that alone, it's a plus because you don't have to take your eyes off the road to see your next turn.
BTW, I have the GARMIN unit in my other car, and find it a PITA to have it stuck on the windshield or on the dash.
It has better graphics, I'll give it that.
Maps with directions are great if you have a co-pilot that tells you to turn before you drive past the exit
THE OEM NAV is a built in unit that interacts with the HUD, so for that alone, it's a plus because you don't have to take your eyes off the road to see your next turn.
BTW, I have the GARMIN unit in my other car, and find it a PITA to have it stuck on the windshield or on the dash.
It has better graphics, I'll give it that.
Maps with directions are great if you have a co-pilot that tells you to turn before you drive past the exit
With the 'Vette Nav you have to miss-spell a street name exactly as the Nav did or you'll never find it. The street I live on has been here for at least 30 years, according to the Nav the street ends at the 1800 block. It actually intersects with a street thats been there for over 15 years but the intersection isn't even on the map. The Nav has tried to get me to U-Turn in the middle of a 6 lane divided freeway because that section of the Freeway isn't on it's memory.
The final slap on the wrist is the $200 for an "updated" map every year. The only thing updated is the paying sponsers to get listed as destinations when you check for a gas station, motel or restaurant. You pay for the electronics in the car, you pay for the disc to run in the electronics and the advertizers pay to be on the destination list. Somebody is making LOTS of $$$ for a junk program.
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The c6 Nav is junk...to only those that don't want or take the time to learn it. It's as good or better than the Garmin or TOM TOM, but of course, those are more intuitive to use than the OEM NAV, so most will prefer those.
THE OEM NAV is a built in unit that interacts with the HUD, so for that alone, it's a plus because you don't have to take your eyes off the road to see your next turn.
BTW, I have the GARMIN unit in my other car, and find it a PITA to have it stuck on the windshield or on the dash.
It has better graphics, I'll give it that.
Maps with directions are great if you have a co-pilot that tells you to turn before you drive past the exit
THE OEM NAV is a built in unit that interacts with the HUD, so for that alone, it's a plus because you don't have to take your eyes off the road to see your next turn.
BTW, I have the GARMIN unit in my other car, and find it a PITA to have it stuck on the windshield or on the dash.
It has better graphics, I'll give it that.
Maps with directions are great if you have a co-pilot that tells you to turn before you drive past the exit
It does not have as fancy graphics or traffic feature (which is pretty much useless anyway) but a lot of Vettes probably never go that far from home. Wife's 300C's NAV is based on Garmin, traffic feature was pitiful (told me there was an accident as I passed the accident a few times after being stuck in traffic for 1/2 hour) and graphics are better but it still gets lost at times. I turn the B-tching Betty off in all NAVs I use because sometimes they like to send you down a one-way street. Betty says turn left and your eyes are saying WTH.
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As previously posted; we have been using the C6 nav for 7 yrs/100k miles over most of the USA, and it works well for us. Not perfect, but none of the other systems we own and use (two garmins, four cellphone navs, and two different "other make" factory navs) is perfect either. All of them have different strengths and weaknesses.
We also pre-print any trip that's complicated. But if forced to choose between the C6 nav (or any other GPS) and maps printed off the computer at home, we'd take the GPS in a heartbeat.
My Grandpa used to say "A poor workman always blames the tools."