Nav Question
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We've driven 130k+ miles over most of the USA and Canada using the C6 nav, it works about as well as the other navs we own or sometimes convoy with. All have their own issues.
The big thing, for me, is the HUD integration on the factory nav. That allows me to turn off "Bitching Bettie" and listen to music or converse without interruption, just follow the turn arrows that pop up in the HUD when needed. None of the aftermarket units will do that, so we've stayed with the factory.
The factory nav is not intuitive to use, especially some of its "nice but obscure" features. You can learn all you need to know by downloading the tutorial from Paul (The Red Lion) into your laptop and sitting in the car. Hint- use a battery tender so you don't kill the battery.
Someone also made a recent YouTube video that nicely covers some of the features. Between that and the tutorial, you can learn how good the factory system is. The alternative is to be continually frustrated by it, or spend the money for an aftermarket unit with its own issues and lack of HUD arrows.
The big thing, for me, is the HUD integration on the factory nav. That allows me to turn off "Bitching Bettie" and listen to music or converse without interruption, just follow the turn arrows that pop up in the HUD when needed. None of the aftermarket units will do that, so we've stayed with the factory.
The factory nav is not intuitive to use, especially some of its "nice but obscure" features. You can learn all you need to know by downloading the tutorial from Paul (The Red Lion) into your laptop and sitting in the car. Hint- use a battery tender so you don't kill the battery.
Someone also made a recent YouTube video that nicely covers some of the features. Between that and the tutorial, you can learn how good the factory system is. The alternative is to be continually frustrated by it, or spend the money for an aftermarket unit with its own issues and lack of HUD arrows.
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From: Westerville Ohio
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From: Currently somewhere in IL,IN,KY,TN,MO,AR,MS,AL, or FL
Well sit down before you wear yourself out. 
Your issue isn't the DVD. Your issue is operator error because, like 95% of the people who complain about the nav, you haven't taken the time to figure out how it works. There are far more features in the C6 nav than anyone would want to use and the directions it gives are identical to many of the other nav units people praise because there are only 2 companies supplying all the maps for every nav system.
The C6 nav software was written with the design criteria of "what can we do" rather than "what would a user want". If you only have a phone number the C6 nav can take you there. WHO CARES?!!! You can tell it to produce hundreds of different routings between the same two points by selecting different options. The Normal/Short/Fast selection is only the most obvious. Dig inside and you can specify types of roads, and places to avoid and, preferred points to travel through and... But it is definitely not user friendly. It is more on the side of user hostile. It takes several hours spent in the car learning features to start appreciating what it has to offer over the simpler alternatives. I can push the button on my iPhone and say "Give me directions to O'Hare airport" and I get voice directions for a 1,000 mile trip but I can't add "but avoid downtown Indianapolis" except with the C6 nav.
The following is the answer that will get you started on learning how to use this VERY capable unit or you can just complain about it and go buy a less capable unit that gives the same basic routings but can be programmed by a child.
That's good to hear. I have no clue where mine was taking me, but when I was trying to get from TX to IN right after picking the car up...it was taking me about 120miles out of the way. I finally turned it off and used google maps. I am sure it would have gotten me home...but that seemed too far out of the way for my liking. Maybe it was trying to avoid tolls? I dunno.
I do need to get the 2016 update dvd though. That could have been part of the issue.
I do need to get the 2016 update dvd though. That could have been part of the issue.
The C6 nav software was written with the design criteria of "what can we do" rather than "what would a user want". If you only have a phone number the C6 nav can take you there. WHO CARES?!!! You can tell it to produce hundreds of different routings between the same two points by selecting different options. The Normal/Short/Fast selection is only the most obvious. Dig inside and you can specify types of roads, and places to avoid and, preferred points to travel through and... But it is definitely not user friendly. It is more on the side of user hostile. It takes several hours spent in the car learning features to start appreciating what it has to offer over the simpler alternatives. I can push the button on my iPhone and say "Give me directions to O'Hare airport" and I get voice directions for a 1,000 mile trip but I can't add "but avoid downtown Indianapolis" except with the C6 nav.
The following is the answer that will get you started on learning how to use this VERY capable unit or you can just complain about it and go buy a less capable unit that gives the same basic routings but can be programmed by a child.
We've driven 130k+ miles over most of the USA and Canada using the C6 nav, it works about as well as the other navs we own or sometimes convoy with. All have their own issues.
The big thing, for me, is the HUD integration on the factory nav. That allows me to turn off "Bitching Bettie" and listen to music or converse without interruption, just follow the turn arrows that pop up in the HUD when needed. None of the aftermarket units will do that, so we've stayed with the factory.
The factory nav is not intuitive to use, especially some of its "nice but obscure" features. You can learn all you need to know by downloading the tutorial from Paul (The Red Lion) into your laptop and sitting in the car. Hint- use a battery tender so you don't kill the battery.
Someone also made a recent YouTube video that nicely covers some of the features. Between that and the tutorial, you can learn how good the factory system is. The alternative is to be continually frustrated by it, or spend the money for an aftermarket unit with its own issues and lack of HUD arrows.
The big thing, for me, is the HUD integration on the factory nav. That allows me to turn off "Bitching Bettie" and listen to music or converse without interruption, just follow the turn arrows that pop up in the HUD when needed. None of the aftermarket units will do that, so we've stayed with the factory.
The factory nav is not intuitive to use, especially some of its "nice but obscure" features. You can learn all you need to know by downloading the tutorial from Paul (The Red Lion) into your laptop and sitting in the car. Hint- use a battery tender so you don't kill the battery.
Someone also made a recent YouTube video that nicely covers some of the features. Between that and the tutorial, you can learn how good the factory system is. The alternative is to be continually frustrated by it, or spend the money for an aftermarket unit with its own issues and lack of HUD arrows.
