Command satnav upgrade?
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I have a 2005 SLK55 AMG and find the satnav good except for one big frustration - the fact that you can only input the first 4 digits of a postcode 
A lot of my clients live in the country and there road names usually don't show up so I can only get close to their address, not all the way to the door as I can with other satnavs. Can the system be upgraded to do a full postcode search?
A lot of my clients live in the country and there road names usually don't show up so I can only get close to their address, not all the way to the door as I can with other satnavs. Can the system be upgraded to do a full postcode search?
The best people to talk to are Richard and Alfie at Comand www.comand.co.uk, that sounds like exactly their sort of thing.
So it won't be long before a used R171 without 'Comand' will be worth more than one with a 'stuck-in-2005-or-£1800' system?
Nice one, Mercedes. What the hell were you thinking of when you commissioned a non-upgradeable Satnav system?
Top tip for used car buyers would seem to be to check to somewhere on the Comand system which has changed since 2005 - and if the map shows the old route, tell the dealer that the deal is off unless the Comand is updated to present day mapping at his expense....
Nice one, Mercedes. What the hell were you thinking of when you commissioned a non-upgradeable Satnav system?
Top tip for used car buyers would seem to be to check to somewhere on the Comand system which has changed since 2005 - and if the map shows the old route, tell the dealer that the deal is off unless the Comand is updated to present day mapping at his expense....
nickwilcock said:
So it won't be long before a used R171 without 'Comand' will be worth more than one with a 'stuck-in-2005-or-£1800' system?
Nice one, Mercedes. What the hell were you thinking of when you commissioned a non-upgradeable Satnav system?
Top tip for used car buyers would seem to be to check to somewhere on the Comand system which has changed since 2005 - and if the map shows the old route, tell the dealer that the deal is off unless the Comand is updated to present day mapping at his expense....
I believe the mapo can be updated - it is just the postcode recognition that can't be updated to read more than the first 4 digits which is annoying if the road you are looking for doesn't come up on the subsequent list...Nice one, Mercedes. What the hell were you thinking of when you commissioned a non-upgradeable Satnav system?
Top tip for used car buyers would seem to be to check to somewhere on the Comand system which has changed since 2005 - and if the map shows the old route, tell the dealer that the deal is off unless the Comand is updated to present day mapping at his expense....
Ah - OK, I get it now. It did seem rather bizarre that it might cost £1800 to bring the system up to date!
If you can't enter detailed postcodes into a 2005-era Comand, can you at least enter lat/long positions for isolated places such as country farms or aerodrome entrances? I find it convenient to use Google Earth to read the exact lat/long of where I need to go, then enter it directly into my Garmin nüvi and allocate a user waypoint name. Can you do this with Comand?
If you can't enter detailed postcodes into a 2005-era Comand, can you at least enter lat/long positions for isolated places such as country farms or aerodrome entrances? I find it convenient to use Google Earth to read the exact lat/long of where I need to go, then enter it directly into my Garmin nüvi and allocate a user waypoint name. Can you do this with Comand?
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