Hire car built-in satnav ?

[garryboy11]

Originally Posted by sotagals

Our mistake was not switching our phones on before we got to the garage.

Sky was really slow to get going. Luckily I kind of knew where I was going and pulled up at a garage. We got some water and waited while the phones kicked in.

Sky was terrible on my android but ok on the iPhones.

I'll have a look into carplay.
The car we had previously with the satnav was a brand new Ford Taurus Limited so that's why it would have been working.

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With Google maps you can download the map area you want in advance - that way at least the map doesn’t rely on data to load - neither does navigation, but you don’t get live traffic without the data connection.

[sotagals]

Originally Posted by garryboy11

With Google maps you can download the map area you want in advance - that way at least the map doesn’t rely on data to load - neither does navigation, but you don’t get live traffic without the data connection.

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If only we were that organised ...

Although actually I booked the hotel during our 3 hour wait on the tarmac at Heathrow as I knew I wouldn't want to drive over to Marco once we finally got there. Next time I'll remember the maps as well.

[Ram1500]

I had a Chevy Tahoe which had apple car play.

[Antsp]

If you like booking hotels look up hotwire.com part of Expedia but with big savings on last minute bookings

[Summerfun]

Even though our hire car had satnav we still used Googlemaps as backup. We downloaded the Florida map at home for offline use, which helped when we lost signal a few times

[JudeB]

We had a suburban from Alamo that had a satnav but it was disabled. We just loaded up either Google or apple maps before we left villa or park/mall etc using WiFi and that worked for us. Doesn’t give you live traffic reports but that didn’t really matter.

[CCFCRJ]

Originally Posted by sotagals

I'm full of questions today

I just read on here somewhere " hire car satnavs are usually disabled"

Is this true ? I've got an upcoming hire of a group Z at Miami and was hoping it would be built in.

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Ours is disabled, Toyota Sienna from Miami Avis. Using Google maps through the android pairing thing so much the same providing data okay I guess or pre downloaded maps