LOL, no wonder my neighbors are so nice to me......

~John

 

It does have that. It's just poorly documented (like every other part of the NAV system).

Before you start on a route, there is a "Plan" softkey, which will give you line-by-line directions for the route.

Once you have started on the route, the Plan option goes away, but if you press the "NAV" button, then you can use the four-way joystick to scroll up and down through the planned route.

 

Curt, thanks for the tip! I did not know that! I thought I had played with everything the Nav offered but couldnt find that feature...I'll try to see if I can get that feature. I guess the stock Nav just went up a notch on my list

 

Gripe ,Gripe Gripe, if you all did your homework like your mom said, you'd wouldn't be griping. You'd have a driver chauffering you in a Bentley to the clubhouse for martinis! My '07 FEH Nav does exactly what it was designed for, Helping. Not driving the car,or picking out a pizza place for me.Yeah,sometimes it loses its place, but it resets as four satellites regroup your position.There are so many variables they need to calculate,I'm in awe as a layman. I found that in order to pinpoint your address, you need to inch on your street,near your home,while hitting the Mark funtion button again and again till it reads your address, then hit HOME to register.My address was close in my own driveway but off 4#s, it even read #s that didn't exsist. But with a little patience I was able to set it. As for directions, My 16 yr old set a 75mi trip from my home in the Lehigh Valley,Pa. up to center city Scranton.Read to me its course of travel.Followed them. Accurate to the mark such that we needed to find parking at a small school, circled the neighborhood twice in different directions using the Nav map fine! Give Visteon,Navteq & Ford a break! Give yourself a chance to actually learn how to use the device without expecting it to tell you who to vote for.

 

No one said it didn't work. The point is that it is outdated technology, overpriced, and offers far less features in a far smaller screen than EVERYTHING else factory or aftermarket. It is not a good system. It is not an average system. It is a working, usable system.

 

We're griping because if we had a choice of getting the Hybrid display WITHOUT the NAV we would have taken that option and get a better/cheaper more updated aftermarket NAV elsewhere. If Ford meant to try to sell the Hybrid display by adding a NAV, then they screwed up...it's the other way around...people bought the NAV because they HAVE TO if they wanted the display. If they had bundle this with an up-to-date NAV, we wouldnt be griping (actually, we would still be griping...about something else).

Like I stated before, I'm totally fine with the stock NAV, but I gripe anyways, because it's outdated and not up to par.

 

Absolutely agree!

I would have never bought the option just for Nav. I really have no use for such an expensive, and little used, toy built into my car.

The only useful feature are the Hybrid displays. Those I actually use on a daily basis.

I have it only because it comes with the premium package. In other words, I was really stuck with getting it.

 

I have also premium package with built-in NAV, which is almost unusable, so I leave the screen on hybrid energy screens almost all of the time.

What I am looking for is a way to installa a Pioneer, Garmin or Alpine aftermarket NAV system on TOP of the current system, if someone is able to devise a mounting kit, I would be so glad and eager to pay to have it installed immeidatley.

 

Well,all good things come to those who wait! This new site boasts of a 6 1/2" touchscreen Nav system! So,it was crafty marketing that suckered us all into the present system, which against all odds, I am enjoying using. Check it out:http://drivezen.com/mariner08/

 

So, ten model years after Acura first provides a DVD Nav as an option in their sedans......Ford can supply a unit that is comparable in the MM/MMH. Do they still wonder why the Japanese Mfrs are eating their lunch......in market share, etc., etc.?

[I really really want to support the US Mfrs (the FEH is my first US-made purchase), but time and time again they get beat to punch in new technologies.]

Again, if you've never lived with a Lexus or Acura supplied Nav....you may easily enjoy using the Visteon unit. And don't waste time using any Nav to find the precise street number of the one place you already know - your own house. Treasure the Ford unit for the Hybrid displays. 'nuf said.