Gray13 Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Hi, at the end of June i purchased a used-Ford Focus Titanium 2008 from a dealership. Absolutely love the car, but there was one gripe i had about it which has been ongoing in different forms. The Focus comes with the pre-built Travelpilot SatNav, but the dealership didn't have an SD Card to hand to give me, telling me to come back in a few weeks to sort out. So i wasn't able to do it there and then and test it. Few weeks passed and eventually i got a brand new Ford Focus SD Card, i put it in and decided to just go from A-to-B, on a route i was familiar with - only a few minutes drive away. However as i was driving, it was giving incorrect turn-offs to roads which didn't exist, it left me confused but i didn't think much of it. On a much longer test i opted to go down the motorway. I started out from my location before going towards the M6, via the M56. Out of the blue the SatNav said i was now coming upto the M62 motorway?? I ignored and continued on, but still it wasn't "correcting" itself. It was as if the Satnav was following a pre-designed route as opposed to a route following the GPS signal. When i got halfway to my destination (about 20miles!!) it said i had arrived. I've tried similar tests and each one shows it's failing hard. is there anyway to rectify this?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preee Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 In my Sig below you will find a download for the manual , perhaps you need to reset the unit , when i have mine i reset the Satnav so it picked up the correct satelites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray13 Posted August 10, 2013 Author Share Posted August 10, 2013 Just a quick update, i have downloaded the Satnav manual which was a help. I think reading through the only thing i didn't do was calibrate the Satnav. So i took it out for a quick spin, let it run its calibration. Once completed i stopped the car and setup the Satnav to take me home. It properly located my area (Perfect). One issue. I didn't set off straight away, and once again the Satnav started to run all on it's own, instead of following my vehicle via GPS it went on it's own (correct) pre-designed route. While i was thinking about it, i noticed that there was an option within the settings for demonstration first... So it made sense that maybe it ran a demonstration first - But even when i started the journey again it didn't work. So would i need to disable the Demo straight away and it will stop with the issues? I haven't tonight tried disabling it, but it seems likely that's what's causing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preee Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Yes disable the Demo completely , and all should be fine. Glad it's sorted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray13 Posted August 11, 2013 Author Share Posted August 11, 2013 Yeah! Test run today confirms it works perfectly fine. So all good now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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