BMW '06 X5 (MkIV SatNav)

[Hamie]

In a word, it's rubbish.

I'm glad I bought my car second hand and didn't have to pay factory prices for this piece of garbage. Off the forecourt (2 years old in '08), the satnav was broken within a day. The replacement is just as bad. It consistently crashes at the same point every time you drive on the M40. It only has 5 digit postcodes. HTF are you supposed to find an address with 5 digits. And updates apparently cost several hundred pounds!

Note, I've also tried a 1st gen iDrive satnav (Business Version) in a 1 series... Just as rubbish.

Would I pay ££ for a new BMW satnav? Not likely. I wish they'd just drop an iPad mini in the dash and put a copy of TomTom on it. That'd be about 1/4 of the cost and 10x the functionality and performance.

Yes I know it's 7 years old... But so is my TomTom Go720. That's 7 years old, cost about 1/10th of the price, is several times faster, has full 7 digit postcodes, map updates cost about £40 and it's as stable as a rock.


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[M8TJT]

I can see that you are not very impressed then.

[Hamie]

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