Sunday, Feb 02, 2014 at 13:43
Hi allein m, we had a VMS unit installed in-dash 'a few' years ago. Back then they came with all the Hema maps and Australia wide topos in MemMap format. OziExplorer is also installed, but as pointed out already, I'd need to pay a license fee (MemMaps were included free). Generally it has been very good. A couple of things I don't like about it are:
1) when using the nav system, it occasionally comes up with an igo8 error - perhaps this has been fixed in later models,
2) it was sold as being iPod compatible, however it turns out they are not compatible with our iPod Touch, but it is compatible with a friend's iPod Classic, and
3) occasionally, when hitting a sharp bump (could be a spoon drain around town, a corrugation offroad, or the sharp tug you get when snatching another vehicle), the system restarts and so loses the map it was on. I presume my model has a hard drive, and this has possibly been rectified if they now use SSD's.
There are some holes in the map coverage, and in some cases the mapping s/w does not seem to be very accurate, eg. driving around on the main sealed roads around SW Vic, and according to the map we're off the road and driving through the adjacent paddock. However I believe that is not a fault of the VMS, but in the mapping definitions themselves.
I've had to call their tech support people a couple of times, and they've been helpful each time.
We haven't used all of the features of the VMS (eg. Bluetooth telephone, CD player or DVD player).
Would I get another? Probably. But then I'd also need to work out what to do for mapping on the new one.
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Follow Up By: jacent - Sunday, Feb 02, 2014 at 14:06
Sunday, Feb 02, 2014 at 14:06
The $995 vms is pretty much identical to the $1995 in dash units as I have compared them, i rang vms and they said the chesper one is their newer model and it isxa better unit than the double price one! not much else to compare to, I don't want to muck around with Chinese gear as majority is junk but obviously some people have a win!
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