R8 Navigator is deranged

[wavering]

I bought a V10 R8 a couple of months ago which is a year old. I find the navigator is great to look at but totally useless! It often send us on ridiculous diversions - typically it will suddenly decide to go a hideously long way round and then as soon as we ignore it and go the sensible route it will recompute and decide that our route is 30 minutes faster!

I have bought a new disk for £160 but it makes no difference. We now use a portable navigator which is vastly better (originally I named it but do not want anybody to think I am advertising). The navigator in my 9 year old Audi RS6 is primitive but better and I am very disappointed that the R8 navigator is so pathetic

Anybody else experienced this? Apart from this, the R8 is a fabulous car ...

[harrison]

The Nav. in my 08 R8 was the same as yours. I updated the disc to the 2010 and it remained dismal. I love my Tom-Tom !!

[malc]

I totally agree
Its seems that it goes out of its way to round the houses,and the voice its like be ordered around.Me to have resorted to a portable satnav, but apart from that a great car in all respects.

[SebringSilver]

The Nav button should be relabeled as Naff.

Our UK friends will understand what I mean.

[Rtoon]

I thought it was just me!
Glad to hear someone else has the same opinion of this idiotic tech. crap!!

[rawg]

The technology on my Q5 puts my R8 to shame

[KfabR8]

I call my nav system Jenny. Jenny's an IDIOT...

The system is sub-par at best.

[willyjp]

Well, you've got to be sure you've got your routing settings on "fastest", NOT "shortest";
I've had it come up with some outlandish routes when on "shortest" (using pedestrian paths, etc.) but I have to say it's been pretty good on "fastest", though the inputting of destinations is WAY too time consuming & difficult;

I have been quite impressed with the FM traffic service.....on several trips through the Seattle area it has suggested a re-route when I-5 has been bottled up, and it gives you some choices: continue despite traffic or choose 1 or 2 alternates. I've had portable navs with automatic traffic routing, but this is the first built-in nav I've had with it.

[maegeri]

I use a Tom-Tom too. My son's Civic has a great NAV, touchscreen and intuitive. The Audi NAV is nearly impossible to use.

[andyhofer]

I used the Nav for the first time today to get to Silverstone. Checked the settings to make sure that it was on fastest, I have a Navigon portable and shortest is a pain, so I made sure the R8 was on fastest.

To be honest, I thought it worked absolutely fine, got me to my destination, in the time stated.

Like WillyJP said, make sure it's on fastest.