I recently changed my Kodiaq with Columbus for a Kamiq with Amundsen.

I then asked the following question in the Kamiq section here and have had no replies, so I wondered if someone with Amundsen in their Kodiaq could shed some light ?

 

Quote

Unless I'm missing something, there's very little scope to change sat nav settings compared to my previous Columbus There appears to be no way to programme it to avoid tolls, motorways ferries etc etc. I could do this in my previous car and I would also be given the option of 3 different types of route when I put in a destination.

I'm assuming these functions don't exist in the Amundsen and as I still have the 2019 map version in my car, I wonder if any of this has been addressed with subsequent updates ?

 

I have an Amundsen (Octavia) and it always offers 3 routes, where only 2 are feasable they can overlap. The routes are shown in green, orange and red. 

I have found the Amunsen satnav to be a complete PITA. It doesn't recognise half the villages or towns in spite of showing them on the map which can be tedious to find them. The zoom in to show route guidance seems quite random. In France I find I have to revert to Google often.

  ^ But when using in France do you use proper names, ie with accents etc

Just now, Frenchtone said:

  ^ But when using in France do you use proper names, ie with accents etc

I start typing the location name for instance Saint and it offers me a very limited list of place names. Will check on accents. I had the same problem though in the UK. It wouldn't recognise Hay on Wye

6 hours ago, VRS_White_Hatch said:

I have an Amundsen (Octavia) and it always offers 3 routes, where only 2 are feasable they can overlap. The routes are shown in green, orange and red. 

Yes, that's the same as my Columbus had, but I'm not getting the option in my Kamiq.

2 hours ago, MichaelTL said:

I have found the Amunsen satnav to be a complete PITA. It doesn't recognise half the villages or towns in spite of showing them on the map which can be tedious to find them. The zoom in to show route guidance seems quite random. In France I find I have to revert to Google often.

Whilst I've hardly used it so far, it's not looking user friendly. It took me down a country lane last week that was more like a farm track when there was a perfectly decent road a few hundred yards further on.

That's why I'd like the option of dialling in the type of roads I'd like it to use.

2 hours ago, MichaelTL said:

I start typing the location name for instance Saint and it offers me a very limited list of place names. Will check on accents. I had the same problem though in the UK. It wouldn't recognise Hay on Wye

Quote

 It wouldn't recognise Hay on Wye

That's cos it's in Wales 🤣

3 hours ago, MichaelTL said:

I start typing the location name for instance Saint and it offers me a very limited list of place names. Will check on accents. I had the same problem though in the UK. It wouldn't recognise Hay on Wye

 

Saint could be Sainte or St according to the village or town, also it could be a commune of a town or a lieu dit which would only present itself as an option amongst the streets of the correct town when selected.

 

I live in France but get incredibly frustrated trying to set my Chinese shatnav when in a different area and have to use the map to see where I am going wrong, often I am spelling the name incorrectly or have not realised its part of a larger agglomeration, sometimes it will need the hyphen if the name contains one, I have not found accents to be a problem, if you use the right letters it will present the options including accented letters.

On 18/09/2021 at 00:01, olderman1 said:

That's cos it's in Wales 🤣

Only part of it!

 

1. I'm wondering which satnav app is likely to show me up to date speed limits in France. The Amundsen with the latest update downloaded from this forum shows me 80kph even when roads are signposted 90kph. With the shake up of single carriageway limits a reliable speed limiter is a big help.
2. I'm about to try Waze but I doubt the display will show on the car's screen.

Good question. I'm hoping to revert to travelling to France next year, so it could be interesting.

I've never used a sat nav app, so can't help with that I'm afraid, al though my wife has used her phone with Google maps as a standalone in our car a couple of times which seemed to work quite well.

I have a 10 year old Garmin which I keep updated, so I think I'll take that to France as a back up. I've done the same with a Hyundai I had, n which I thought the sat nav was dire.

 

When you say you have the latest update from this forum, do you actually mean from the Skoda Portal ?

25 minutes ago, olderman1 said:

I have a 10 year old Garmin which I keep updated, so I think I'll take that to France as a back up

 

Just be careful - it is illegal in France to have something that tells you where speed cameras are... not just radar detectors, but SatNavs with warnings also count. Might be your 10 year old Garmin has that and you can't turn it off because it wasn't a problem back then.

2 minutes ago, WiggosSideburns said:

 

Just be careful - it is illegal in France to have something that tells you where speed cameras are... not just radar detectors, but SatNavs with warnings also count. Might be your 10 year old Garmin has that and you can't turn it off because it wasn't a problem back then.

Thanks for the warning. I am aware of what you say and my Garmin does have the option of turning off speed warnings, which I used to do when using it due to horror stories of large fines and device confiscation !!

Trying Waze today. Just checked that I can access it on the Amundsen system. Can't see how to adjust the volume on the car though unless I can do it on the phone.

 

It does make me laugh when I read all the fantasy reports about my country.

 

Enforcement of any notional offence is as close to zero as to be of no consequence, voluntary compliance with the often irrational requirements is as close to 100% that enforcement is never even considered.

 

Don't be fooled by the strikers and demonstrators, that happens even when there is nothing to demonstrate about, outside of the tolerated manifestations those same firebrands will be as god fearing and law abiding as a Nun.

 

Having a radar detector or jammer is a different kettle of fish.

1 minute ago, MichaelTL said:

Trying Waze today. Just checked that I can access it on the Amundsen system. Can't see how to adjust the volume on the car though unless I can do it on the phone.

 

Like other systems I've had, the built in sat nav volume control can only be adjusted when there's an announcement taking place, so maybe it's the same when you have your phone connected.

I find this really annoying, because if the volume is turned right down how do we know when an announcement is being made.

You didn't answer my question about whether you got your update from the Skoda Portal ?

2 minutes ago, J.R. said:

It does make me laugh when I read all the fantasy reports about my country.

 

Nothing I said was fantasy, and I didn't say anything about enforcement of the law or anything else. I simply stated that it's illegal to have something that warns you about the location of speed cameras. Is that incorrect?

Quote

It does make me laugh when I read all the fantasy reports about my country.

JR, whether these reports are true or maybe just exaggerated, it's surely better for the occasional traveller to be safe than sorry. I would hate to have my holiday spoiled with a 750 euro fine and confiscation of the sat nav. That would have amounted to the best part of £1000.

Also, there's always one jobsworth gendarme out there who wants to apply the letter of the law. I've had it in airports a couple of times - they do exist and getting a fine for a minor misdemeanor does put a stain on a holiday.

34 minutes ago, WiggosSideburns said:

 

Nothing I said was fantasy, and I didn't say anything about enforcement of the law or anything else. I simply stated that it's illegal to have something that warns you about the location of speed cameras. Is that incorrect?

The comment was not for youbut in response to" horror stories of large fines and device confiscation !!"

Quote

horror stories of large fines and device confiscation !!"

So these stories are made up then ? There's a script writer sitting a desk somewhere making them up and then posting them online purely for sensationalism ?

They might be exaggerated and few and far between, but they do happen and it's not wrong to make people travelling to France aware of them.

I believe it was the AA over here that made me aware of the possibility of large and confiscation.

2 hours ago, olderman1 said:

 

You didn't answer my question about whether you got your update from the Skoda Portal ?

The Amundsen with the latest update downloaded from this forum shows me 80kph 

2 minutes ago, MichaelTL said:

The Amundsen with the latest update downloaded from this forum shows me 80kph 

My point was; this forum does not provide sat nav updates unless I'm missing something, so I have to assume that you got your update from the Skoda Portal via a link someone on this forum provided.

If for some reason your update isn't a genuine Skoda one, that could explain why speed limits are incorrect.

Having said that, my previous Columbus system often got speed limits wrong and couldn't be relied upon.

2 hours ago, olderman1 said:

So these stories are made up then ? There's a script writer sitting a desk somewhere making them up and then posting them online purely for sensationalism ?

Probably but most people would never hear them if people did not buy into them and propogate them.

 

But then what do I know, I have only lived there for 17 years, you will be stopped if you are speeding or committing a moving offence (99% of speeding fines arrive by post), you may be stopped together with all the other traffic for an alcotest if driving at night, in these scenarios they may ask to see your documents but unlikely in a foreign registered vehicle, if a tyre is visibly worn or dangerous you may be advised, if you are unlucky or obstinate you may even be fined.

 

You have more chance of winning the lottery than to be stopped for any other reason or for them to go through the foreign menus of your shatnav, which by the way they have no right to do.

 

Speed camera locations are shown as symbols on every up to date roadmap, when temporary cameras are installed or where speedtraps are being set up its always publicised in advance in the newspapers and other media, the government website also shows the locations of all the speed cameras.

Edited 20 September, 20214 yr by J.R.

5 hours ago, MichaelTL said:

1. I'm wondering which satnav app is likely to show me up to date speed limits in France. The Amundsen with the latest update downloaded from this forum shows me 80kph even when roads are signposted 90kph. With the shake up of single carriageway limits a reliable speed limiter is a big help.
2. I'm about to try Waze but I doubt the display will show on the car's screen.

 

The speed limit for single carriageway roads in France is now 80kph rather than 90 kph.(unless a lower speed is indicated)