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Ok, really. I had a very nice Garmin with the car before my 2011 Avalon, and must admit, I often used both units. The Garmin (which I had lifetime Map updates), was as you'd expect always right on the money. More so as of late (which is why the Toyota unit has a New DVD available).
Is it worth $169.00 to not get lost É you'll have to make that call?
Is it worth NOT having a usable Nav that you paid dearly for É you'll have to make that call?
Is it worth looking at a nice Garmin and getting lifetime map updates and never have to worry about this again É you'll need to make that call.
In a perfect world, Toyota would contract with someone like Garmin and allow for "Lifetime Map updates" and:
- Being able to create a route on the desktop computer / ipad or whatever, and then be able to email to the car
- Be able to move about the screen better, and change routes with greater easy. Touch on the new road you want to be on, and have it take you there.
Now the 2013 does have something I didn't see and my 2011, which is POI show up and you can select one and say go there and it puts it into the system. A pretty cool feature, that is a way I used to get back on track once so far.
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23 Telluride SX-P X-Line, 23 Camry XSE
Nav model in the Sienna is E7027 and in the Avalon it is E7031.
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Upon pairing my iPhone to the car's entertainment system, many things started happening. First, the system played what I wanted it to from the iPhone. Then, right in the middle of listening to my calming music at the volume level I wanted, another song from a totally different genre of music started playing at a much higher volume level. I had no idea where it came from, and it took quite a bit of fiddling to get it to revert to what I was listening to.
Then, it arbitrarily went to the Settings screen. I did not tell it to do that. I got that turned off, and then it went back to my music. Then the map screen came on. I got that turned off and it reverted to my desired music.
Then the loud music came back on. I got that turned back off and the same cycle started all over again. I had not touched anything to make all this happen.
There are many more details, but that the gist of the situation.
Has anyone experienced the same, or reasonably similar, situation with the 2013 Avalon Limited?
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Try this, it's a great area for how do video's
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF94CmqbviY&playnext=1&list=PLsOvRYzJPCwW2G_XGce-- V89dSGZzNSuHw&feature=results_main
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And I believe the "Head Unit" is part of the sound system, so you'll get more then just the Nav É I believe.
The Nav is nice in that is bigger then the Tom-Tom. It's easy to read, it splits the screen when you get on highways, and has exits and such showing up on screen, it has POI showing up on screen, which is cool, because you can touch say, the gas station on the screen, and say "Go there" and sets that up as the stop to make next and other cool stuff like that.
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I do like having POI show up on the map, and being able to click on them, and then say "Go there" and the Nav add's it to your route.
Very surprised that the car manufacturers aren't hooked up with one of the GPS giants? All a moog point with cell phones on a days.
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I live in Rochester. NY. It seams that XM traffic only works in profitable markets which I am not in. Do not fret. The HDD nav. system does not require an XM subscription for road problems. So I guess, the question was what do I have to pay for good nav. information. Nothing!
I will say this, when driving, the voice recognition needs improvement. You need to know the commands and locating a destination that is not close by, can be frustrating. This is a software fix and can be updated to your vehicle.
You have to get use to the system. Read the manuals and the videos. Is it perfect, No! I have still not seen a perfect Nav. system. I think this car offers a more user friendly system that I have seen in cars costing $20,000 more. Everything is touch sensitive including the nav. system. The whole user interface to the driver is well laid out and responsive.
I own this car but I do not have any problem with suggesting any improvements.
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Here is my question: How do you get from Point A to Point B without the GPS telling you to take
every exit you are approaching long before you arrive at the actual exit you need to take? For example, if I need to take Exit #12 the GPS will tell me to take all the exits from 1 to ll. I purchased the car new in July of 2012 and the GPS never done this in the past. It just started
doing this last week on our last vacation. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Terry
Also, you'll need to notice when it tells you there are 3 routes chosen and you choose a route, it's going to follow that route. You can go in and place a marker at a point, and it will then go that route.
I haven't checked this out yet, but here is what looks like an OUTSTANDING site to watch video's on the system?
- https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/2011-toyota-avalon-navigation/id388938852
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Check out the video's on youtube for using the Nav.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHPeW6n6l0s&list=PLsOvRYzJPCwW2G_XGce-V89dSGZzNSu- Hw
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While I'm not having enough issues to worry about, I'd be leery about the time table. Maybe others can chime in on if they purchased over the years and when.
Other posts have noted, that while the latest is nice, it's still a year or more away from the newest data?
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AND READ THE MANUAL for goodness sake
You're welcome :-)
I use it most of the time on trips, and yes, sometimes it takes me off the beaten path,
and yes, it has gotten screwed up when new roads, new roundabouts have been built since the current version was made, and yes, it still lists many POI that is wrong or non-existing, it has never gotten me lost, or not work at all.
Yes I like and use my Garmin, but I try the built in unit first and been fine.
I travel a fair amount (35,000 miles a year), from Maine to Florida and all points in-between and it's never failed me to the point of being mad.
YES, it has on a few occasions sent me out in no mans land for a pizza shop / subway sandwich shop, but for hotels, streets and most other major attractions, it's worked fine.
YES, I'm glad I bring along my Garmin, but even that has brought me out in the woods for a restaurant before, and yes, it most often chooses a different route to get somewhere.
Would I like the built-in unit to work as good, easy and practical as my Garmin, Hell yes (as I pointed out before, just trip planning online then downloading to the Garmin is way cool, and makes a extended trip so much less stressful, but the Toyota unit has a bigger display and shows things like how many lanes there are in an upcoming exit, REAL helpful when getting off in the bigger cities and coming up on an exit quickly.
Ok, I'll stop so I can get some work done.
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I have a 2006 avalon and I can't input a new destination. On the destination screen I click on address and it flashes but thats all. No input screen, nothing. Also, I can't input a search area. It's all blank on the search area right side. No map and "change" button, nothing. Help.
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JohnR888