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I don't like the factory nav. I use my Garmin. Standby for a mix bag of opinions.
me as well. CarPlay (Waze) for shorter trips, garmin for long cross country trips. The factory nav is crap. In fact I have it edited out as well as all the Sirius bs via forscan so none of it even shows up cluttering up the interface.
Had it in our 2016 and 2010. Also had it in two Fusions... The latest is by far batter than it has been.
Now we have over 27k miles on our 2018 F150 and it is used daily. No issues. I enjoy how it provides real time adjustments as accidents happen "After" one gets on the road. Not once has it sent me to a cliff or a dead end street like all my Garmin's have in the past (And I have life time updates with the Garmin's I have.).
The one feature I despise with SYNC Nav is the voice commands. With the advancements in today's tech, there is no reason that I should not be able to just say "Jacks Steak House Issaquah" and have it route the route for me.
But noooo. Instead I have to jump thorough hoops and if it has a hard time understanding any of it, not a good time to be had for those in the vehicle.
As such, all routes have to be typed in while parked. Not as efficient as I would like. Although the manually typing is also needed to most all other forms of navigation systems. I just expect an $800 add on to smoke what I get for free on my cell phones or a $200-$400 Gamin unit can provide.
My wife and I get a kick out of what the nav comes up with sometimes. Especially if we both start talking or answering at the same time.
However, 90% of the time, it picks it up.
Voice Button
"Find a P.O.I"
"<Name of POI>"
"Line number (if more than one)"
Boom, done.
I mostly use Sync for playing music. I have a USB with all of my music on it. I like that I can say "Play Song and Emotion" and it will play that song and go back to shuffling. Or I can play a whole album or one artist. That stuff seems pretty seamless. The Nav stuff, not so much.
The best part of factory nav is easily reading cross streets if your in a strange town, or if you aren't sure where you're at you can hit the nav button, zoom out a little and get your bearings. Plus, it just looks a lot cooler than the compass while in the home screen.
02-18-2019, 09:19 AM
