Sat Nav question

Post by **djt** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 5:04 pm

I'm being a bit lazy here as I could look through the huge manual that comes with the Sat Nav.

Is there an option to allow full postcodes to be entered? I have been caught out a few times over the last week where I have only been allowed to enter the first 4 characters. I was stuck the other day because all I had was the postcode, no street name etc.

Cheers

Dan

Post by **davefaedeen** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 5:33 pm

not sure mate i have the same problem, but i know make sure i have the street name!!!

Post by **byrnie** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 5:33 pm

I asked a mate of mone with an S6 and he says cannot put in a full postcode on his, and I certainly can't on mine so I never use it now.

Post by **Dom81** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 5:37 pm

It's a definite no I'm afraid...

Post by **djt** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:29 pm

How annoying, I too will have to make sure I take note of the street name from now on.

Post by **kiN** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:40 pm

Thats crap! I always assume it would be a full post code entry...

Post by **PetrolDave** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:17 am

djt wrote:Is there an option to allow full postcodes to be entered?

Nope, none of the OE Audi sat navs allow full postcode entry.

Post by **GBrownlow** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:42 pm

Makes you wonder how they can charge so much for an inferior system and yet a small portable tom tom one for £150 is better.

Post by **weblissimo** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:57 pm

When I asked about this the answer from Audi marketing HQ was that it's because the system in the B7 is actually pretty ancient and the software has not been updated. Sort of makes sense as TomTom and the likes have only around an 18month lifecycle whereas with development time the B7 is probably 5 years or more? The same satnav system in my previous S4 didn't even have TMC (Trafic info boradcasts) so I was preety amazed that Audi had managed to squeeze that into the B7 RS4...not sure whether it's in all models or just the later ones? - anyone know????

Post by **PetrolDave** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:30 am

weblissimo wrote:When I asked about this the answer from Audi marketing HQ was that it's because the system in the B7 is actually pretty ancient and the software has not been updated.

What Audi didn't tell you is that the MMI system in the A6 and A8 still only have partial postcode entry too! So their reply isn't totally honest...

weblissimo wrote:The same satnav system in my previous S4 didn't even have TMC (Trafic info boradcasts) so I was preety amazed that Audi had managed to squeeze that into the B7 RS4...not sure whether it's in all models or just the later ones? - anyone know????

UK TMC was added to the RNS-E by a software only upgrade in 2007 - and can be applied to ALL RNS-E's no matter how old. Software 0550 or later have UK TMC.

UK TMC was available on the older CD based RNS-D from 2003 by buying a map CD from TeleAtlas instead of Audi!

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