New Nissan Primera sat nav offer...no good?

DukeDredd · 21-01-2005 1:17pm #1

Never used sat nav in Ireland but i hear it's not really useable outside the main cities as maps aren't available (something about Ordinance Survey Ireland acting the arse). Nissan are advertising a free sat nav system with any new primera sold. Surely this is going to p1ss off customers who suddenly realise it's no use to them after forking out over 30K Euro for the car! Are Nissan aware of this?

stratos · 21-01-2005 9:50pm

My phone has sat/nav works all over Ireland. So I guess the the Primera should be o.k.

impr0v · 22-01-2005 12:46am

If they fork out 30k on a Primera they deserve everything they get.

unkel · 22-01-2005 12:47am

It should work reasonably well. The Ordinance Survey seem to be a conservative (read: retarded) kinda organisation. Can't really put the blame on them though, the problem with satnav here is that Ireland is not part of NATO

NATO => meticulously exact maps based on standards backed up by satellite photography

Back in me army days before we had satnav, with a ruler and the appropriate NATO map, I could pinpoint my position to within about 10 meters :cool:

stratos · 22-01-2005 1:05am

impr0v wrote:

If they fork out 30k on a Primera they deserve everything they get.

mafiaboy · 29-09-2010 9:54am

IV GOT A NISSAN PRIMERA 2006
and the sat-nav never worked in it, is there some part i could buy to get it working ??

crazyderk · 29-09-2010 10:07am

I've an 04 Primera which has the option of getting the satnav and carkit built in, I asked at my local Nissan garage and they said that the satnav was so unpopular that it had been discontinued because of the quality of the maps vs the price and that the carkit didnt work with a majority of Phones.
so I left it.

The issues your going to face is within 1-2 years your maps become outdated even if they're the best of maps they need to be updated

whose going to update them? if its Nissan I'm sure it will be quite expensive

That vs a new Garmin/Tom Tom at a cost of up to 200 euro and then updates at a cost of approx 100 euro!

Yes it looks nice being built in but not worth it IMHO

What about other Car manufacturers, what do they charge to update their maps?

bazz26 · 29-09-2010 10:58am

I was reading the first post on this thread and it referred to the new Nissan Primera.

Then I realised this thread is over 5 years old. :eek:

New Nissan Primera sat nav offer...no good?

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