On Thursday, I set off from Wirral to drive to Bovington in Dorset, via Fritwell in Oxfordshire. We were to stay overnight with my Brother-in Law and en-route I noticed that the voice had ceased on the Satmap Nav. No problem as I am familiar with the route, but I was a little surprised. During the evening I checked things out but could not trace anything wrong with the settings.
The next day I set up the system for the unfamiliar drive to Bovington ( I had only been once previously).Whilst I was clued up with the main towns, I had no idea about positions on the roads which I needed to make to smooth out the travel through them. So with the system set up all I needed was for it to work !
Thank goodness for Mrs Roy. It poured down with rain and as usual many motorists were driving in poor conditions without turning their lights on.Will they never learn ? At first she "read" the map in the dashboard and advised me. The last time we had travelled down we had enjoyed lunch in the Waterloo Inn at Lyndhurst in the New Forest, slo we headed for Lyndhurst. Sure enough we found the town but sadly,not the Inn. Then Mrs Roy had what I called a "Herbie" moment and remembered that she had an I-phone.She found the app and suddenlyeverything that Herbie had been proclaiming came true in an instant. The inn was two miles away, behind us and would be just 4.7869 minutes away. The app easily outclassed the standard in built sat nav. Herbie for PM !
Over lunch I consulted the Handbook.Mrs Roy googled for advice and in both cases the sat nav in the car had been set up correctly. I checked that all other voice outputs were working correctly, and they were. I thought about calling into Lexus Poole to see if they could help as Members had often praised their services. So, I did.They were excellent.Dave was outstanding. The Chief Technician also.........but they could not solve the problem !
Relax will not help, the new 15 year old/150,000 miles warranty will not help. Thank goodness for my Lexus Extended Warranty which expires at the end of August which includes multimedia systems.
I am booked into Lexus Chester next week, so I will update you in due course.. Has anyone on this Forum had a similar problem ?