The Amundsen in my Kamiq is the third satnav I have used, two Garmins and now the Amundsen.  The first Garmin, a 2610 Street Pilot I bought about 2003, was dead easy to use and he display was clear and well set out with goo use of colour, albeit very small.

 

The next Garmin, a NUvi something or other was faster, had a bigger screen but with poor layout and poor use of colour.  I got the impression that the software writers and screen designers probably had little or no experience of driving a car.

 

The Amundsen has convinced me that the people responsible for its design and software and operation, had not only never driven a car but probably had never ridden in one.

 

And the downloaded manual doesn't help much.

 

So can someone tell me how to select a route o drive where the satnav offers more than?  My Amundsen is showing three possible routes, the fastest as the preferred route and two others, one of which I want to use.  Tapping on that route to select it doesn't appear to do anything other than set me off on the preferred route.

Well, after more experimenting I found out how to do this.

 

All the routes have a time of travel shown in a box on the route. 

 

For the preferred route, this is the actual travel time, e.g. 1h 23m. 

 

For the alternative routes, it shows the difference between the preferred route time and the alternative route's time, so if the alternative route takes 1h 34m, the box shows +11m.

 

To select the alternative route for your journey, tap on the "time difference" box of that route.

 

Unfortunately, only a few miles into our journey, the console map display was replaced by a black screen and a clock, which nothing could get rid of until we had reached out destination!

 

Fortunately, the dashboard display I use offered me a smaller display between the rev counter and the speedometer to follow, but no spoken instructions.

 

The wonders of modern technology!

@Seasider - suggest you see whether there are any major firmware updates for your Kamiq.  The fact that you lost your navigation screen says that:

a) The system turned itself onto Standby and presented the 'clock' as default.  Press the Power On button would have got your screen back.

b) The latest MIB3 systems are buggy as heck.  There are minor updates you should be able to download yourself, but suspect there maybe larger firmware updates to be installed by the dealer to fix any 'operational' issues.

Many thanks for that info; I'll follow it up with my dealer.