Which double DIN sat nav, DAB, TV/DVD reverse camera?
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Hi,
I have been through the same issue with my 2010 93 Sportwagon.
I had a factory fitted Saab unit which kept crashing and the nav disc kept failing.
We decided to fit a Kenwood DNX4210BT DAB sat nav, phone system which cost £1100.00 fitted.
This has been the biggest disaster that has ever come to pass.
The unit was fitted in December 2012, I am now on my 3rd unit and I am going to reject this one next week and demand that the fit a system from a different manufacturer.
I have had the following issues on all 3 units..
Unit will not turn on.
Volume control doesn't work either on the unit or steering wheel.
Phone will not stay connected for more than 30mins at a time.
Feed back through mic so bad that callers can't stand the echo, if you turn down the volume or themic gain you then can't be heard.
Sat nav signal can disappear for hrs at a time.
Reverse camera doesn't always active when reverse is selected.
In short buy anything else but Kenwood
I will never buy one of their products again.
I have been through the same issue with my 2010 93 Sportwagon.
I had a factory fitted Saab unit which kept crashing and the nav disc kept failing.
We decided to fit a Kenwood DNX4210BT DAB sat nav, phone system which cost £1100.00 fitted.
This has been the biggest disaster that has ever come to pass.
The unit was fitted in December 2012, I am now on my 3rd unit and I am going to reject this one next week and demand that the fit a system from a different manufacturer.
I have had the following issues on all 3 units..
Unit will not turn on.
Volume control doesn't work either on the unit or steering wheel.
Phone will not stay connected for more than 30mins at a time.
Feed back through mic so bad that callers can't stand the echo, if you turn down the volume or themic gain you then can't be heard.
Sat nav signal can disappear for hrs at a time.
Reverse camera doesn't always active when reverse is selected.
In short buy anything else but Kenwood
I will never buy one of their products again.
Don't know if I'm too late for you on this but I have an Alpine unit in my car (with everything that you are looking at). The biggest problem I have found with it is that the sat nav systems in both this unit and all others that I have seen since are so slooow to calculate routes and zooming in/out to provide overviews especially when compared with Google maps running on my mobile.
This isn't a problem when you first jump into your car and plan your route but once you are under way and there is a road closure or you miss the correct turning, you can easily overshoot a turning that would actually provide a simple diversion while waiting for a new route to be calculated or for the map to zoom in/out to enable you to check that the navigation isn't just trying to make you do a U turn back onto the road that is closed. Also if you are a bit impatient (like me) you may just set off while it is still calculating and then find out 2 mins later that it is taking you a very different way to the one that you wanted to go - I had this when working near to Scotch Corner and I wanted to go home via the A66 and down the M6 but being foolish I started to follow the sat nav as soon as it had finished calculating and realised that it was trying to get me to turn around and go via the A1(M), M62 and M60 because that was one mile shorter (which was not exactly a great idea when it meant that I would be on the M62/M60 at 5pm on a weekday!).
Another issue is that the method of finding places (other than via an exact address or postcode) can be frustrating. Most in dash sat navs that I've seen cannot handle a 'google style' search for something like the nearest Tesco store. I quite often travel to places that are in the middle of nowhere and it's not unusual to be given the old style instructions of 'turn left at the Kings Head and then right at the post office'. You can find the Kings Head very easily on Google maps but I have very rarely been able to find it on the sat nav without having to park up for 10 mins to try all the different categories to find the one with the Kings Head in it.
In hindisght I wish I hadn't wasted my money on a headunit with sat nav and just stuck to using Google maps on my phone which is always sat in a charging cradle alongside the sat nav display anyway!
This isn't a problem when you first jump into your car and plan your route but once you are under way and there is a road closure or you miss the correct turning, you can easily overshoot a turning that would actually provide a simple diversion while waiting for a new route to be calculated or for the map to zoom in/out to enable you to check that the navigation isn't just trying to make you do a U turn back onto the road that is closed. Also if you are a bit impatient (like me) you may just set off while it is still calculating and then find out 2 mins later that it is taking you a very different way to the one that you wanted to go - I had this when working near to Scotch Corner and I wanted to go home via the A66 and down the M6 but being foolish I started to follow the sat nav as soon as it had finished calculating and realised that it was trying to get me to turn around and go via the A1(M), M62 and M60 because that was one mile shorter (which was not exactly a great idea when it meant that I would be on the M62/M60 at 5pm on a weekday!).
Another issue is that the method of finding places (other than via an exact address or postcode) can be frustrating. Most in dash sat navs that I've seen cannot handle a 'google style' search for something like the nearest Tesco store. I quite often travel to places that are in the middle of nowhere and it's not unusual to be given the old style instructions of 'turn left at the Kings Head and then right at the post office'. You can find the Kings Head very easily on Google maps but I have very rarely been able to find it on the sat nav without having to park up for 10 mins to try all the different categories to find the one with the Kings Head in it.
In hindisght I wish I hadn't wasted my money on a headunit with sat nav and just stuck to using Google maps on my phone which is always sat in a charging cradle alongside the sat nav display anyway!
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