Can anyone shed any light on the main difference between the two. Looking at the tech pack but is it a great deal better than standard SD nav in the car ?
Tech pack vs SD nav
- Thread starter The Hammer
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Can't comment on the tech pack, other than the screen is better, but the SD nav is crap. Don't get me wrong, the integration is good, but the actual sat nav is useless.
I've played about with all the settings but can't get it to pick up a realistic route comparable with TomTom, Google maps or Here Maps. Getting it to use anything other than motorway or main trunk routes is a challenge. Last week it picked up 'slow moving traffic for 1 mile' from the traffic data stream and tried to send me on a 43 mile diversion. There is one of about half a mile through a local village! Worst £450 I have ever spent
I've played about with all the settings but can't get it to pick up a realistic route comparable with TomTom, Google maps or Here Maps. Getting it to use anything other than motorway or main trunk routes is a challenge. Last week it picked up 'slow moving traffic for 1 mile' from the traffic data stream and tried to send me on a 43 mile diversion. There is one of about half a mile through a local village! Worst £450 I have ever spent
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Obviously tech pack will be better, and if I could of increased my budget I would of specced it over the SD nav, but I had to be honest with my self in that I would be getting it just for the sake of having the more Gucci option, there were other options I wanted more that fit my budget. I literally never use my nav, only if I'm clueless about where I'm going - in which case the SD nav does just fine tbh and I really hate sticking things on the windscreen with cables trailing. It was an easy decision for me to spend 500 on it. If I often relied heavily on sat nav my options priorities would of been different and would of ditched a few niceties for the tech pack. Honestly the SD nav is fine 
Tech pack comes with 5 updates free these are the next 5 in a row and are real eased every 6 months. If you add what this would cost for SD map updates you are a good way into the 1k price difference as I think it's around £140. It also has the touch pad on the central MMI wheel which has hand writing recognition so for sat nav post code entry you just scribble each letter on it - same for music searches etc. it has the 7 inch hi-res screen which is why I bought it alone after the 5.8 inch (think it was on the Seat Leon) which I thought was very poor. Could be wrong on this one but think it also works with the higher capacity SD cards.
Hope this helps - there may be others. Possibly integration with LED headlamps as well if you are thinking about these.
Hope this helps - there may be others. Possibly integration with LED headlamps as well if you are thinking about these.
I've found the SD Nav pretty good, can't comment on Tech Pack but the standard Nav does the job.
However I'm not going to blindly rely on it, like I would never rely on a TomTom, I'd always use Google Maps to check a route beforehand so I know I'm taking the right route.
There are times it's sent me somewhere random - for example going to a Tesco Extra it said I'd "arrived at my destination" when I was actually at the back of the store, opposite a Fire station, near the deliveries entrance.
However I'm not going to blindly rely on it, like I would never rely on a TomTom, I'd always use Google Maps to check a route beforehand so I know I'm taking the right route.
There are times it's sent me somewhere random - for example going to a Tesco Extra it said I'd "arrived at my destination" when I was actually at the back of the store, opposite a Fire station, near the deliveries entrance.
Also check out the speed camera POI thread its now possible to add camera locations to the map with the tech pack. Not a fully fledged warning like tomtom but much better than not having them.
