Hope this isn't a duplicate, but:

 

On a new 2017 Octavia SE-L, during a trip across France in recent days, the satnav was doing this:

 

1: Recommending leaving the autoroute at EVERY junction due to "road closure / heavy traffic / access restrictions". There was no significant traffic - indeed, the only place it didn't warn was near Paris, where there was heavy traffic, as usual. Google maps confirmed that all was running normally.

 

2: In addition to the above, it wanted me to leave the autoroute at every Aire (rest stop), drive through, and rejoin, for no apparent reason. Even the ones that were physically closed--.

 

This carried on for 3 days and >600 miles!

 

It's set to default, dynamic route, fastest route, etc.

 

BTW, I also find that when trying to enter a destination it will grey out or fail to display the next step (part of postcode, road name, etc) of a valid address entry. You have to quit and start again, and it then happily allows the required entry.

 

Positive note: it was damn good in central Paris.

Sorry haven't got an answer for you - but in a similar way the quickest route for me from Junction 9 of the M27 (South Coast) to Bournemouth was to come off at Junction 7 and Joint straight back on again. Mind sometimes in the rush hour - I could well believe that would be the quickest route.

1 hour ago, koborn said:

1: Recommending leaving the autoroute at EVERY junction due to "road closure / heavy traffic / access restrictions". There was no significant traffic - indeed, the only place it didn't warn was near Paris, where there was heavy traffic, as usual. Google maps confirmed that all was running normally.

 

2: In addition to the above, it wanted me to leave the autoroute at every Aire (rest stop), drive through, and rejoin, for no apparent reason. Even the ones that were physically closed--.

1. In my experience the TMC (traffic) data in France can be hopeless out of date - my worst experience was it saying that a road was closed which had been reopened ONE YEAR earlier. So I suspect this was caused by out-of-date TMC data being received by the sat nav and not a fault of the sat nav.

 

2. Maybe caused by the same issue - if it thought the Autoroute was closed/WHY but that TMC data didn't apply to the aires then it would try to route you using the aires! Bizarre but what a "dumb" system will do...

You may well be correct on the first one, although the overhead gantries were showing nothing, and they are usually pretty good. May be a different system, of course.

 

Very glad I didn't follow the routing though - only had it on for the in-town bits at start and end. If I didn't know the general autoroute map we'd still be bumbling along a D road!

mines taken me on some odd detours before, which actually turned out slower than the original route (back roads instead of the main road!)

Yep mine has taken me off the A55 on Anglesey, along the old A5 and back on to the A55 again, for no reason whatever 

3 hours ago, Gti Jazz Blue said:

Sorry haven't got an answer for you - but in a similar way the quickest route for me from Junction 9 of the M27 (South Coast) to Bournemouth was to come off at Junction 7 and Joint straight back on again. Mind sometimes in the rush hour - I could well believe that would be the quickest route.

I use this route a lot and although I don't need the SatNav on it often is. It has never asked me to do this and indeed when the A34 was closed recently very near the M3 junction it did a very goon diversion route via Romsey to get me home.

14 hours ago, koborn said:

You may well be correct on the first one, although the overhead gantries were showing nothing, and they are usually pretty good. May be a different system, of course.

Yes it's a different system.

Mine keeps telling me that the A134 in Colchester is closed when it isn't, I only get the issue when connected to skoda connect if it's not connected the sat nav doesn't tell me the roads closed. 

On 12/28/2017 at 20:03, pist0nbr0ke said:

Yep mine has taken me off the A55 on Anglesey, along the old A5 and back on to the A55 again, for no reason whatever 

Must have seen a pretty ewe

4 hours ago, themanwithnoaim said:

Must have seen a pretty ewe

 

Rumbled 

My Skoda satnav has done much the same as Koborn's, but only from time to time. But I live permanently in France. On a trip last week it suggested driving straight through a couple of motorway service areas, and elsewhere leaving the autoroute at an intersection and rejoining it immediately at the same intersection. But the live traffic information was spot on: there were indeed long delays on a mountain road caused by the snow that had only just fallen.

 

A few months ago it told me the autoroute I was on, was closed. When I ignored the satnav and continued, it came up with a message which I think was "I cannot suggest an alternative route" !

Oh dear, these weird tales of Skoda satnav behaviour are becoming increasingly common. Never ever had a problem using Here maps on my 5 year old Xperia, maps always up to date, gives discrete audible warnings when speeding and cameras and its all free! 

 

Both are Navteq underneath, strange.

On 12/28/2017 at 19:51, Gumby said:

mines taken me on some odd detours before, which actually turned out slower than the original route (back roads instead of the main road!)

Mine tries to. Fortunately I usually have a fair idea of the route I should be on and ignore the spurious. It will catch me out if it continues though.