Mercedes sat nav

[macdeb]

Can someone tell me how I can use the sat nav effectively please? At the moment it wont let me enter a full postcode or a street name I want. Seems a pity I'm having to use my portable 'navigon' sat nav.
It's on my recently bought '08 Mercedes Vito Brabus sport-X.
Ta

[macdeb]

[G Man]

What car is the sat nav in ?
Is it comand or Navation 50 ?

Believe some comand are based on 5 digital postcode, some are full 7 digit postcode

http://mercupgrades.com/COMAND+++All+about+the+dif...

[macdeb]

G Man said:

What car is the sat nav in ?
Is it comand or Navation 50 ?

Believe some comand are based on 5 digital postcode, some are full 7 digit postcode

http://mercupgrades.com/COMAND+++All+about+the+dif...

Cheers bloke, it's a COMAND system and fitted to a Brabus sport-X Vito, so it seems from the helpful link of yours to be the NTG2. Still confused as it only seems to accept 4 digits for the postcode, then goes to town, then doesn't list all streets
I came to a 't' junction the weekend and the mercedes sat nav said turn left, my portable 'navigon' sat nav said turn right. So I looked left and it wasn't suitable for road vehicles, then turned right and got there. Disappointing if I have to use the portable one. Anything I can do to improve or just don't use it?

[G Man]

You need to see if its the latest CD for the SatNav, if the car/van thing is older than 3years
We upgraded our CD on a SL55amg and comand was a different beast

[macdeb]

G Man said:

You need to see if its the latest CD for the SatNav, if the car/van thing is older than 3years
We upgraded our CD on a SL55amg and comand was a different beast

Ah, so how best to tell and where best to source? Thanks again.

[G Man]

macdeb said:

G Man said:

You need to see if its the latest CD for the SatNav, if the car/van thing is older than 3years
We upgraded our CD on a SL55amg and comand was a different beast

Ah, so how best to tell and where best to source? Thanks again.

I would enter engineering mode and find out what firmware and software you have, but I am guessing you need
from www.comandonline.co.uk

Comand APS Map DVD Europe 2010/2011 (V12.0) for A,B,W203 C,CLK,ML,R,GL, Sprinter, Viano, Vito



V12.0 (MB part number A 169 827 74 59) mapping DVD for Europe. RRP £250.21

This disk is for the DVD based navigation systems (NOT the model year 2009 cars with hard disk) in the new A class, B class, facelifted C class (built after 04/04), facelifted CLK class (built after 06/04), new ML, GL, R. Also supported are the smart forfour, Sprinter after 01/06 and Vito/Viano after 04/06. It will not work in North American MCS-II navigation systems brought to Europe.

If your current map disk just covers 1-3 countries then you have the CD based system and this disk is not suitable for you, please see our Map CD section.

It has coverage for the following countries: UK (GB), A, AND, B, CH, CZ, D, DK, E, EST, F, FIN, FL, GB, GBZ, GR, H, HR, I, IRL, L, LT, LV, MC, N, NL, P, PL, RSM, S, SLO, SK and V.

TMC coverage for UK (GB), A, B, CH, D, E, DK, F, I, NL, N, S


Highlights of V12.0 (A169 827 74 59 Released May 2010)

• Updated navigation data and operating system software for the COMAND APS (NTG2) naviga‐ tion unit
• Convenient, cross‐border navigation: 32 countries available on one DVD
• Extensive house number coverage in many of Europe’s towns offers a wide spectrum for precise
destination selection.
• Avoid hold‐ups and congestion with dynamic route guidance, available for motorways in Austria,
Belgium, Denmark, France (Setra), Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland and the United Kingdom (ITIS).
• Address can be input using postcode in the majority of countries.
• The ‘Europe’ DVD includes a total of around 7,305,000 kilometres of road.
• Points of Interest (POI)
• Over 1,000,000 points of interest are available in 40 categories (e.g. Airports, Filling stations, Parking, Ferry terminals, Shopping centres, Cinemas, Hotels, Public buildings and offices, Restaurants).
• Around 740,000 of Europe’s cities and towns are available as directly selectable points of interest.

New in V12.0 over V11.0 (A169 827 65 59)

New mapping software (Samco Version 9.6.8_002010) as-well as updated maps
Now includes Guernsey & Jersey
Significantly improved coverage in Romania
• Now includes full detailed road network for Estonia and Slovenia.
• Additional road coverage for:
• Greece: +6%
• House number coverage increased in Estonia, France and Greece.
• Around 60,000 additional directly selectable points of interest in various categories are now
available.
• Updated RDS/TMC tables for dynamic route guidance in: Germany, Italy, Sweden and United
Kingdom.

ITIS V5.2 UK TMC tables.

New in Version 11.0 (Released July 2009) over Version 10.0 (B6 782 3944)

Version 11 contains -approx 7,037,000 KM of road, 730,000 towns & villages, 960,000 points of interest.

- Updated navigation data and operating system software
- Complete detailed road network is now available for Italy, Lithuania,Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
- Additional raod coverage for:
Estonia: +43%
Greece: + 31%
Croatia: +10%
Latvia: +31%
Slovenia: +33%
- Additional house number coverage has been added in Estonia, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lativa, Lithuania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary & United Kingdom
- Around 45,000 additional directly selectable points of interest in various catagories are now available.
- Updated RDS/TMC table for dynamic route guidance in: Denmark, Germany, France & Switzerland.

New in Version 10 (released October 08) over Version 9:
- Updated navigation data and software. (this fixes a nasty where the system can fail to start navigation if system has been left without power)
- A large amount of missing streets and MB dealers from the UK have been fixed.
- For the very first time, navigation data is available for: Croatia.
- Complete coverage of the detailed road network in Ireland.
- Complete coverage of the interconnecting road network in Latvia.
- Updated RDS/TMC tables for dynamic route guidance* for: Belgium, Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Norway.
- Around 200,000 new points of interest.
- Approx. 134,000 towns and villages are available as directly-dialable points of interest.
- Additional coverage in the detailed road network: Croatia (+ 32 %), Czech Republic (+ 36 %), Greece (+ 6 %), Hungary (+ 11 %), Ireland (+ 59 %), Italy (+ 10 %), Latvia (+ 3 %), Poland (+ 7 %), Portugal (+ 17 %), Slovakia (+ 22 %), Slovenia (+ 13 %), Spain (+ 14 %).
- Additional coverage in the interconnecting road network: Latvia (+71 %), Croatia (+100 %).
- Additional coverage of house numbers: Croatia (+ 31 %), Czech Republic (+ 1 %), France (+ 15 %), Hungary (+ 4 %), Ireland (+ 42 %), Poland (+ 7 %), Portugal (+ 13 %), Spain (+ 4 %).


New in Version 9 over Version 8

We have found it has much better post code coverage of Nothern Ireland, such as covering the BT35 postcode, etc.

- Navigation data for Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- Dynamic route guidance now also available on motorways in: Norway, Spain.
- Updated RDS / TMC tables for dynamic route guidance for: Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland.
- Complete coverage of the detail road network in Britain and Northern Ireland.
- Complete coverage of the connecting road network in Ireland and Slovakia.
- Approximately 20,000 new special targets are included.
- Approx. 22,000 additional cities and towns are directly selectable targets.
- 520,000 kilometres of roads also available!
- Additional coverage in detail road network: Estonia (+29%), Greece (+11%), Latvia (+29%), Lithuania (+27%), Poland (+13%), Portugal (+1%), Slovakia (+4%), Slovenia (+ 30%), Hungary (+6%), United Kingdom (+2%).
- Additional coverage in connection road network: Greece (+26%), Ireland (+55%), Slovakia (+81%)
- Additional coverage of house numbers: Finland (+1%), France (+3%), Italy (+1%), Poland (+22 %), Portugal (+8%), Slovakia (+2%), Spain (+13%), Hungary (+47%).

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[macdeb]

WOW, thanks! much appreciated. Are the upgraded discs that good? Would they solve my problem? I just want to be able to enter a full post code and get there, can't understand why mercedes can't do it and other cheap options can.
PS. Cool profile picture

Edited by macdeb on Friday 13th April 18:12

[macdeb]

Anyone else have this problem? seems very poor.

[eldar]

macdeb said:

Anyone else have this problem? seems very poor.

You can get cheap 'backup copies' of the upgrade disks from ebay, but it is a high risk option, COMAND is allegedly extremely fussy about the DVD media, and the illegal ones often end up borking the unit. allegedly...

[G Man]

macdeb said:

Anyone else have this problem? seems very poor.

On the SL55AMG the comand sat nav was rubbish, did the upgrade and it was night and day, dynamic traffic rerouting TMC feature added , postcodes etc its very good now

This is my experience for a SL55 AMG , remember there are many versions of comand installed and the software version you are running depends and what age the vehicle.. do your research on the sites shown and good luck

Last tip
I Bought a 2010 cd from a main MB dealer in 2011, ( they wanted to get rid because 2011 vers available )
I paid 1/2 price

[macdeb]

Cheers guys