C5 X7 VTR+ vs Exclusive

[Stickyfinger]

The chrome trims on the tailgate on the car on the left are more then likely aftermarket

Yes they are, used to protect the boot lip and I thought the bottom of the glass needed finishing as all the other angles on the car have chrome strips/details/badges....why not the back ?

[KP]

Well I'll kind of be entering the Exclusive club soon Pics to follow in my blog later in the week

[DickieG]

Well I'll kind of be entering the Exclusive club soon Pics to follow in my blog later in the week

Has your application been approved then?

[Hell Razor5543]

If people can join willy-nilly it cannot be that Exclusive!

[vborovic]

No one said the club was free, if you have a few quid to spare, you're welcome to join us ... ...

[myglaren]

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

[SaabC5]

Watch this space, i too will be purchasing an X7 in the very near future. Spec undetermined as yet, can't decide if i want an Exclusive without nav or a VTR+ nav. Finding an Exclusive with nav in the right colour (red or black)is proving difficult.

[Deano24v]

i have a red exclusive tourer. I didnt want Nav as lets be honest it isnt great. The only plus point is it makes the dash look better. The only thing i wish the Exclusive came with as standard was Xenons. Comning from a car with them the difference is large. I fitted brighter bulbs but even so.

[vborovic]

The navigation isn't great, but get's the job done ... if you have the latest maps and firmware, it works flawlessly ... I navigated more than 2000 miles across Europe with the myway & emyway, second better that the first of course, but I never needed my Android's Navigon ... as a driver, I had the chance to use Garmin, TomTom, iGo, etc in the previous years ... and I don't know what more you could want from the PSA car nav units ... except take them out for a stroll ...

[Stickyfinger]

In Built Sat Nav does work in another car or van or the house run about (wife/son/daughters) or when out walking in a strange town.......I will stick with a portable one until I can stream Google maps for free

[vborovic]

I'm always up for full maps in a device (no streaming), because experience taught me that in the most crucial time there will be no phone signal, let alone internet connectivity ... that way you don't worry whether you have all the required maps or not during your trip ...

This is one difference for you lot that live in the UK ... most of your driving is within your country ... where I live, I can travel within 3 hours through 4-5 countries ... and in each you have roaming that can be more expensive than buying the actual Garmin handled device with a map ... ... example, if you don't have roaming options, the default roaming price for 1 MB is approx 0,2 GBP ... or, 100 MB for 20 GBP ... I'd imagine there are flat-rate-on-everything monthly subscriptions on your carriers for 20 GBP ...

[Jelly_Owner]

I've got a 2011 Exclusive. It's a V6 with the Navidrive NG4 unit and I've just updated the firmware and the maps. Has anybody here ever tried removing the hard drive from the NG4 and attaching it to a PC and then copying the files from the DVDs? It's a bit of a pain driving round for the best part of a couple of hours while the thing does the updates.

Going back to an earlier comment about portable sat navs compared to the inbuilt jobbies, I recently did a trip to the south of France with both the Navidrive and a Tomtom Via Live 120 guiding me. They're both fine for peage and the like but they're vastly different when in towns and cities. The Tomtom would guide me down narrow back streets - a bit of a struggle sometimes in a C5 - whereas the Navidrive would normally take me down main roads. That's with them both set to fastest route. One big advantage of the Tomtom however is the ability to add one's own POIs. I've yet to discover a way to do that on the NG4.

[vborovic]

No that I'm aware of such a procedure, all the people that have NG4s do it that way (I know quite a few people from different forums) ... the one manual regarding the NG4 that I have doesn't say anything about the POI adding ... if possible, the logic should be that you can save the current car location by a context menu ... that's how it was on the myway and how it is on the emyway navigation units ... as for the difference between handheld & car units, your argument is valid, but you need to take into consideration that maybe the handheld has a filter, of which roads to include (I remember on one Garmin I had, you could finely tune the roads that will be available for the routing ... from the local ones, even including gravel, to only the major ones) ...

[osx]

I've got a 2011 Exclusive. It's a V6 with the Navidrive NG4 unit and I've just updated the firmware and the maps. Has anybody here ever tried removing the hard drive from the NG4 and attaching it to a PC and then copying the files from the DVDs? It's a bit of a pain driving round for the best part of a couple of hours while the thing does the updates.

Going back to an earlier comment about portable sat navs compared to the inbuilt jobbies, I recently did a trip to the south of France with both the Navidrive and a Tomtom Via Live 120 guiding me. They're both fine for peage and the like but they're vastly different when in towns and cities. The Tomtom would guide me down narrow back streets - a bit of a struggle sometimes in a C5 - whereas the Navidrive would normally take me down main roads. That's with them both set to fastest route. One big advantage of the Tomtom however is the ability to add one's own POIs. I've yet to discover a way to do that on the NG4.

I have removed the hard disk only to make a backup and check the file system. If it is just a matter of moving files (like you would do for media files for example) there is no issue. If the map disks however have compressed files and a special installer I don't think it will work.

[Stickyfinger]

of which roads to include (I remember on one Garmin I had, you could finely tune the roads that will be available for the routing ... from the local ones, even including gravel, to only the major ones) ...

Yep. AKA TOMTOM...and others I am sure.

TomTom gives, Shortest (miles/km) , Quickest (in time), Toll road free (a right laugh in London), Pre Planned, 1 mile ahead, 2mile 5miles Road blocked. in a ---- Walking, Truck, Car
(On dedicated unit OR now on IPhone and Android)