Found a thread online someone states he hates his nav and it doesn't work well?
Don't want to spend the money to get it if she's not worth it always can buy an after market.
New C6 owners whats up????????????????????

 

Suggest you read more opinions (C6 GEN). Most who have it like it. The post you're talking about is the only one I've seen who dislikes it VS 12-15 others who highly recommend it. I don't have it, so I couldn't say. Just telling you about the posts I've read.

Try this link.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/showthread.php?t=914866

Or this one.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/showthread.php?t=858648

 

The NAV is awesome!

So far, I have not had any problems with it.

 

I'm the cry baby.

The nav is awsome ... except for the fact that it is brain dead and inaccurate. In every other regard it is great.

I think it likely will get fixed and it will probably add marketability to resale. Doubt you will ever get your $1400 back tho.

I now have proof that the database is over 6 years old ... for roads anyway. It may be great for finding a hamburger but I wanted it for travel. I cross country and track frequently ... not in the city stuff. To me .. worthless and I would be better with the 6 cd and MP3 at no charge.

 

Whatever you do don't switch to a aftermarket stereo they have made it so the sound system has to match some code in order to find it.

 

Can you elaborate on this point... I want to read up on this because I was thinking about putting in a Pioneer NAV head unit/DVD/MP3 player...

Can you point me to some resources on this possible restriction, please?

Thank you,
Doc Rings

 

Hmmm.... wonder if they can do that legally? Sounds a lot like Microsoft putting code in their products so other software companies have trouble integrating competing products. I'm sure there are a couple of lawyers that will make it an issue!

 

Even though the vast majority of people love it, I'm going to have to be the second to give it a big thumbs down! I've used the Nav in my wife's Chrysler Town & Country... quiet, I don't want to hear it ... and I also bought a Magellan RoadMate 700 for my 99 C5 and used that for a while. Both are light years ahead of the ignorant Nav they put in the C6!

I'm sorry, but the thing is just dumb. I drove some of the same roads I have driven with the other Nav's and the one in the C6 gets "confused" regularly and will all of a sudden tell you to make a right turn immediately while you are doing 75 MPH on a highway and there are no exits in sight. It does this just because you passed over another road or (worse) happen to be driving parallel to another road. It got "off" several times on this weekend's trip by several hundred feet, thought we were driving in a field, and started complaining that we should get back to the calculated route. Worse, sometimes it gets off a little and thinks you are on the wrong road, and then recalculates the wrong route! Waiting for it to "resync" is about the only thing you can do. Using the "normal", "quick", etc. commands never help and I haven't found any other way to keep it from getting confused like this.

It also screws up routes sometimes, having you get off of major highways onto little dirt roads, not because it thinks it would be faster, but because it seems to get confused when roads are close to the highway but going in the same direction. It's like this Nav isn't smart enough to know that you can't instantaneously transport to another road that isn't even connected to the one you are driving on, and it just "guesses" where you are by your proximity to the roads rather than being smart enough to keep continuity by knowing the road you've been traveling. I've never had that problem on any other Nav.

Less severe, but still annoying, you can be driving on a highway with no exits in sight, and it'll tell you to take a right turn when there's nothing ahead but a slight bend to the right in the unbroken highway. You then look left and see another road over there heading off to the left, but it isn't even connected to the highway you are on... ergo why would it think you need to take a right turn to avoid a non connected road?

All in all, I'm very unimpressed with the Nav. The two others that I've used made more sensible routes, were MUCH easier to use, and got a lot less confused. They didn't have as many features as the C6 Nav, but to me, all the C6 features just get in the way of being able to use it properly and consistently. It is even more difficult to use when you haven't memorized all 120 voice commands. When you tell it, "Zoom Out" and it starts displaying female symbols all over the map because it thought you said "whorehouse", you're screwed (literally) if you don't know the command to reverse that mistake.

Bottom line, it'll get you there... most of the time. I wonder if all the glowing reviews have come from people who have never had a Nav, because if you've tried others, I can't see being that impressed with this one?

Just my .02

Mike

 

Right on the money:

I was a pilot and I sure would like to see the bite holes in the seats after a trip from Atlanta to LA and then trying to do the approach into LAX with this things logic and mapping ability ,,, passengers and crew would be trying to jump out the windows.

GM could have done allot better.

 

Wow, the navi has whorehouses as a point of interest? That should make up for some of its inaccuracies.