2015 Silverado Navigation up, are you kidding???

[B_O__Plenty]

Just checked the cost to update the very poor, nearly worthless navigation system in my 2015 Silverado. More often than not it can't find an address, takes me the long way around or can't locate anything at all. Huge waste of money as an option...and now for only $159.995 I can get the latest updates for it. ARE YOU KIDDING ??? I can buy a whole new GPS for that and get free updates for life! If you are buying a new Chevrolet...don't waste any money on the piece of krap Navigation system....And now ask me how I really feel about it.

B.O.

[3oaks]

DirtyOil wrote:
Paper maps for $1.00....

Free in most of the states down here. And I don't have all the frustrations or expense being vented in this thread. 😉

We travel thousands of miles every year and get along just fine without all this "modern technology". We never found a compelling need for it and have not become dependent upon it. 🙂

[ChooChooMan74]

Google Maps usually routes me around a problem before I get to it. Been a few times when I was wondering what was going on, but followed a road that paralleled the highway. Sure enough, bumper to bumper for something.

[B_O__Plenty]

My nav was a $500.00 option. I didn't have time to order a truck so I took what they had. It also has On Star but at $$30 to $40 dollars a month to renew that, I can get by just fine without it. I hate it when they use their scare tactics to make you want to renew it. I've been driving for over 50 years and got by with a map and never had a need to call Onstar. Like a lot of older folks, my cellphone is a flip phone with big numbers. I almost never use that either. All this technology is fine for some but it really doesn't interest me at all. But I do like fast cars and faster women...

B.O.

[DirtyOil]

Paper maps for $1.00.... funny thing is, my truck has GPS and has "map pockets"...

[Golden_HVAC]

My Garmin GPS was around $159 at Wal Mart.com and by applying for a credit card, I could get $20 off my first purchase, so it was less!

I hate the thought of the built in Nav systems costing well over $1,000! I would not pay $250 for one, and am glad not to have it because it would require a $150 update soon after buying it!

Thanks for the warning!

Fred.

[jerem0621]

My Town & Country has a Garmin navigation system...absolutely the hands down best integrated system I have ever used.

I rented a 2015 Suburban and its navigation system was horrendously designed to frustrate the user. Not intuitive at all....

I think it's also about $150.00 to update. I would love to be able to buy lifetime maps for it...

I do have a Garmin 50lm that has lifetime maps. Pretty nice unit.

Thanks!

Jeremiah

[nevadanick]

OEM nav makes for a good spot to stick your Garmin or TomTom to.

[gmcsmoke]

sounds like someone doesn't know how to read their manual.

[BenK]

Just another potential feeding opportunity from the OEMs...do you
folks pay for updates to your computer/cell/etc ? If you do, I
have a bridge in the middle of Nevada for sale with a bulls eye
on your backs...

One of my philosophies is to NOT get ancillary stuff and stick to their
main competency...

Like going to a steak house and ordering fish tacos, or going to a taco
stand and ordering steak, etc...

At best...their non-main competency offering will be mud hen 'just good enough'

Unless I find that they went out and 'bought' another company that 'had'
great products...but over time...muted to diluted by the bigger corporations
middle management

Have a dash or window mounted (suction cup) holder for my iPad Air, which
has GPS and cell (it is also part of my cell phone plan, so can go cell tower
to cell tower or both GPS & cell tower).

Google maps or any 'good' maps app that has a GPS locational function. Updated
often and 'auto update' is turned on mine

Since Google Maps and the cell tower to cell tower locational thing...it also
has updates to traffic.

Found that out on my last trip from N Cal to S Cal visiting my grandson. 2.5
hour delay on I5 and maps started 'telling' me of it and offered a constant
notice & possible side roads

Think the cell tower to cell tower communications also has local
traffic reports, tweets, etc calculated with my location...how else
would it know that xx.xx hours or xx minutes to my destination using
side streets?...or whether I took one of their suggestions...

Each 'side road' notice came with both written and voice informing me that
taking this other route would save me x.x hours or after a while changed to
xx minutes

Got lost taking their suggestion...trying my own short cut in a foreign
neighborhood and Google Maps just recalculated a 'new' suggestion with a
new xx.xx hours, or xx minutes to destination...

Do know that I'm a HUGE NON-fan of "highly integrated' anything for my
auto's...



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BenK wrote:
Posted: 07/29/15 12:28pm

My smartphone is better than the one on sisters and her husbands E series MB

Smartphone is okay, but would like a larger screen...plus when the
phone/text message comes in...kills the visual and have to re-initiate

Am going to use my iPad Air and looking for a holder right now. Think found one
at Amazon:


ipadmount ipadholder ipadairmount

Not just right, yet...still looking


Goes with my not liking 'highly integrated' stuff on my automotive

Have three different GPS apps and one for when no cell coverage going up for
oysters with GF. 100% GPS line of sight

Wonder how often the on board DB has to be updated...and/or if automatic
update or manual updates?

[ktmrfs]

I agree the factory nav is not as intitive as I'd like, but man, the onstar nav is fantastic. I've called a couple of times as traffic either came to a stop, or I knew of a long road closure,and the onstar nav person knew of the problem, asked if I was towing, once I answered within 15-30 seconds they had a new route downloaded around the accident and we were on our way. In one case, I was towing, and any nav system other than my garmin RV760 for bypassing it if you were towing would likely have sent me on a route I would NOT wanted to be on towing.

I also like the messaging for turns etc. better on the GM nav than my garmin. If there are multiple possible turns in a short distance, rather than waiting till the last second to say "turn", GM nav will say as an example "Turn right at the third intersection" then chime at the turn. It also is better than my garmin on saying which lanes you can be in.

But, as BO mentioned, entering a destination is probably it's biggest dissapointment to me.

Rather than try to enter addresses, I just use the onstar blue button and have a real person pn the line do my work for me!

[Bumpyroad]

yep, if I ever get a vehicle with a built in GPS, after I / we have settled on a $$$ amount, I will get them to put in the contract free upgrades annually. my understanding is that they get the DVD and just download it to individual vehicles. so it does not really cost them anything. If they don't agree I will just walk and am sure they will chase me across the parking lot to agree.
bumpy

[ChooChooMan74]

I use a tablet. A WiFi only tablet, you can purchase Copilot. If you have a 3G/4G tablet, Google Maps or Waze (and of course, Copilot).


Tablet in the new Ram. And yes, it is hard wired in.


Tablet in the Jeep

[CWSWine]

My Garmin cost me 349.99 with free life time upgrades. I can set trailer height and width and warns me of low over pass. It also list truck stops along my route, where I can get propane, RV Parks, RV Repair, live road conditions and traffic, live road construction and even weather along my route. I can even bring cameras up along my route and check out traffic in real time.
I have updated mine several times this year to keep the map current - try to go though Dallas from north to south using maps that are a couple years old.

[IdaD]

Nav is pointless anymore. Just use your smartphone.

[Muddydogs]

When I purchase my 2014 Ram I looked into getting the navigation turned on. I think the price was around $500 and very few years it would need to be updated for a couple 100 bucks. Well I came to the conclusion that for $500 I could purchase a very good GPS unit that comes with free upgrades for life so I opted not to deal with the factory GPS. As of today I am still using my 7 year old Tom Tom for longer trips and if I need any navigation around town I just use the cell phone.