I am looking at a Greenline Estate and want the Xenon lights and a few extras.

I have worked out that I could get the SE with Xe lights and the extras I want for about £1000 less than the Elegance with the couple of extras I would still have to add (park assist mainly).

Bearing in mind the upholstry in the SE that I have test driven seemed fine and that I have a perfectly good TomTom sat nav that hasn't yet let me down in the UK or Spain (and I don't use it that much) - Is the leather and Columbus worth the extra £1000?

I am looking at a Greenline Estate and want the Xenon lights and a few extras.

I have worked out that I could get the SE with Xe lights and the extras I want for about £1000 less than the Elegance with the couple of extras I would still have to add (park assist mainly).

Bearing in mind the upholstry in the SE that I have test driven seemed fine and that I have a perfectly good TomTom sat nav that hasn't yet let me down in the UK or Spain (and I don't use it that much) - Is the leather and Columbus worth the extra £1000?

Columbus is not just a Sat Nav, it is a complicated computer system, plays CD's DVD's SD cards up to 32 Gig Radio and hands free telephone adaptor hence the price. If you only want it for its Sat Nav it would not be worth the extra.

Leather seats are only leather facings the sides and back are synthetic but are good.

Park assist you will rarely if ever use it, I have it but it is used mainly to demonstrate, a good talking point.

Front sensors are handy .

For £1000 extra for leather and sat nav i would say yes. Columbus is £1600 and leather a £800 option.

It's also...

+ chrome trim on doors

+ chrome trim on lower grill

Which looks pretty too

I love my Columbus - does exactly what need it to do - would never go back to a TomTom..

Al.

I would agree forget the park assist it works very well but unless you parallel park all the time its a wast of money. spend your money on the Columbus and the leather heated seats with memory and electric two way lumbar adjust on both front seats.

bill

Don't thow away the TomTom. It is a much better sat nav than the columbus. I have tried the other features of the columbus, such as the phone - never got it to work, and the SD card reader. The SD reader is good (download talking books onto it for long journeys), but have not had the time to try and store them on the hard disk so after 9 months of ownership the hard drive is still empty. I cannot see any use for the DVD player.

The lights on the excellence are really, really good and the fact that at teh touch of a button you can change the dip from the left hand side of the road is very valuable/

You either want leather or not. That is a very personal choice

That's like saying a car is useless because you don't know how to drive. its not the Columbus fault you don't know how to use it.what more do you want it plays music,films,shows you the heating controls.the heated seats and parking sensors, and will take you any where you want to go.

bill

Remember the Elegance will also include leccy heated front seats

Remember the Elegance will also include leccy heated front seats

and if there are two drivers, you can code the two keys to each persons position! Being the taller person I find this is an absolute beauty!

In winter the heated seats are fab... hands free integrated phone system works very well for us (Nokia N8 & B.Berry 8250), leather, apparently a few more maxidot features, SatNav... plus the exterior... chrome trim, fancy alloys. Even if you didn't want any of them, it would probably add nearly £1000 the resale value of your car 3, 4 or maybe 5 years later, so you could just have them and almost consider them a freebie - I don't know the re-sale prices but this is just to make a point that I think its worth it as you'll get your money back & they are luxuries that you are likely to be happy you've got.

I hope it make sense & that you agree.

Regards

Stef

Hmm. Just as stuck as I was!

Does the columbus deal with the iPhone 4? I already have a bluetooth headset so what does the Columbus do with your phone that is so good?

... and the difference between park assist and the front sensors alone is "only" £145.

Hmm. Just as stuck as I was!

Does the columbus deal with the iPhone 4? I already have a bluetooth headset so what does the Columbus do with your phone that is so good?

I have columbus and iPhone 4, it works like a charm! You use it with handsfree, playing spotify and so on! I would never think of using something else!

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As a cheapskate who threw a couple of extras on the "S" spec rather than pay for the SE with bits I didnt want (and as it is a work lease car I would have to pay extra tax on based on BIK value) I remember reading somewhere that generally the base and top of range models are usually best value. Base gives you the size and most of the technical features. Top of range gives all the toys. Implication was stay away from mid range.

May not mean anything but if you look on the SUK used car site 80% of Superbs for sale are Elegance trim, with a few more SEs than S spec making up the rest. Guess the S spec are being thrashed into the ground as taxis.

The one thing Columbus needs is speed camera alerts. This I miss moving from my TomTom.

I use CamerAlert app on my iPhone which I find useful when using Columbus satnav.

On the whole Columbus does a good job.

Leather is poor quality but heated seats and memory are great features.

Phil

Hi Phil

You can have speed cameras on your Columbus if you want them.

bill

Hi Phil

You can have speed cameras on your Columbus if you want them.

bill

Hi Bill,

Interested in your reply. How can I get speed cameras onto my Columbus?

I am not the most technically literate user on this site so can I have a lay mans version please?

Hi Bill,

Interested in your reply. How can I get speed cameras onto my Columbus?

I am not the most technically literate user on this site so can I have a lay mans version please?

First, you need a subscription to somewhere like PocketGPSWorld for the database of cameras. Then you need software capable of making a second editable copy of your navigation DVD. Then you need software to achieve the editing - Pimp-my-Nav is one example, but there are free versions too. Then you need to be able to burn the edited files onto a blank DVD. HTH

Ray

Hi Ray hope you are keeping your lovely car nice and clean and shiny

that was Very eloquently put, Phil should know what to do now.

bill