My wife had been telling me for months that the navigation system on this van was selecting strange routes. My response to her was that in a city, there are dozens of routes. When we took a road trip to the beach, the GPS took us on a route that was nearly five hours. At first, I didn't think about it because we were in traffic. When we programmed the return, we noticed the estimated travel time was 5 1/2 hours and that just seemed "wrong." I pulled out my iPhone and used Google maps and Mapquest. Both offered routing that was more than 90-minutes shorter! We monitored the Toyota GPS but followed the cellphone directions provided by Mapquest. The Toyota GPS did not synch with the Toyota GPS until we were 20-minutes away from our home! We can't trust this GPS. It's not a matter of a map update on the van, because the roads we traveled are OLD. One reason we spent thousands of dollars more for this van was to have a built in GPS. We are very disappointed. We are going to have to get buy a car charger for the iPhone and increase our data plan!
Speaking of that-- does anybody know how much cell data mapquest (or the other direction providers use) with turn by turn direction?
My wife had been telling me for months that the navigation system on this van was selecting strange routes. My response to her was that in a city, there are dozens of routes. When we took a road trip to the beach, the GPS took us on a route that was nearly five hours. At first, I didn't think about it because we were in traffic. When we programmed the return, we noticed the estimated travel time was 5 1/2 hours and that just seemed "wrong." I pulled out my iPhone and used Google maps and Mapquest. Both offered routing that was more than 90-minutes shorter! We monitored the Toyota GPS but followed the cellphone directions provided by Mapquest. The Toyota GPS did not synch with the Toyota GPS until we were 20-minutes away from our home! We can't trust this GPS. It's not a matter of a map update on the van, because the roads we traveled are OLD. One reason we spent thousands of dollars more for this van was to have a built in GPS. We are very disappointed. We are going to have to get buy a car charger for the iPhone and increase our data plan!
Speaking of that-- does anybody know how much cell data mapquest (or the other direction providers use) with turn by turn direction?
- S S., Charlotte, NC, US