Has anyone (had satellite navigation badly direct)

[TonyF]

I haven't used the MG4's maps. But. My Mazda used to do this. Google used to do this. Tomtom did it. Garmin did it. I was zooming along a newish motorway in the UK and the hire car kept telling me to find a road.

Because I live on a corner Waze (google) was convinced I live on the side street, not the address I manually entered. It's an effectively unusable, rough difficult climb/walk from the side street. Waze now accepts I live where I live - I haven't changed anything

Check your route settings. They're the most likely problem, but as noted above, satellite mapping and the "intelligence" behind directions need work.

 

[mymg4]

Hi I got 2024 MG4 trophy. I stopped using the navigation system because I put my home destination in and it took me miles out the way no where near my home has anyone else had this problem.

Hi I had exactly the same thing on my 2024 long range Trophy. It should have been on a straight road but it wanted to go through a housing estate? Luckily I know the route well. More bugs than a tramp's bed!!! Best Wishes Dan Gardner

 

[decrep]

Had a RAV hire car in NZ last month, It dumped us in the middle of nowhere a couple of times. I would have used Google thru Android Auto, but we were on global roaming and had run out of credit.

 

[Mrs B]

Hi I got 2024 MG4 trophy. I stopped using the navigation system because I put my home destination in and it took me miles out the way no where near my home has anyone else had this problem.

I've given up with the in car satnav too, found it absolutely useless despite setting it all up correctly. It tried to send me off on several weird and whacky routes, into car parks and even a dead end road. Having to use Google maps on the android auto connection instead. Disappointed in the in car satnav, it's not even as good as the one in my old car which was a 2013 Skoda Yeti!

 

[Jamesrr]

Disappointed in the in car satnav, it's not even as good as the one in my old car which was a 2013 Skoda Yeti!

But why would you ever bother? Even Apple gave up and use Google Maps.
You get all the telemetry from everyone else using it and helping find the best route in real time.
Polestar did the right thing. They run Android Automotive (like most rational car manufacturers these days) and use a lightly skinned version of Google Maps as the SatNav system.
It works great.
I wish MG did the same.
You'd use it then.

 

[DixieTGS]

I would have used Google thru Android Auto, but we were on global roaming and had run out of credit.

In google maps you can download a copy of the offline maps for a decent sized area (Southern England and Wales fit in to 2 chunks for example).

Basic maps and navigation works, but other bits are missing or reduced functionality - no voice control and traffic obviously, as well as less good search and points of interest.

When I last used it due to poor signal in the area, the maps needed updating so it was no use on the first day of our trip. The maps info say they expire after a year, but it seemed to actually be 1 month for navigation use. Hopefully this issue has been fixed by now.

 

[Huffin Puffin]

The are a number of settings (cog icon) that control the routing, it may be these are driving the solution. I can't remember them but there must be shortest/fastest/economical. Have a play to see what happens as you change them.

Hi Martin - can you describe where you see the cog icon? We have the standard satnav with the ZS and it doesn't send us in the wrong direction, but it keeps directing us down farm tracks to minimise the distance. So we suspect it is a problem with settings, but haven't been able to track them down.

Thanks!

 

[SteveG511711]

Hello all, I have an MG3+Hybrid. Bought it new 6 months ago and it has been fine; covered 4000 miles to date. Love the car but not the complicated (and forever self-adjusting) technology. The Satnav often takes me a strange way, for example; it took me onto the A500 ('D'-Road) near where I live and then proceeded to take me to the end near Nantwich. It then re-routed and took me all the way back again to the start and took me the proper way. Why? I knew roughly where I wanted to be but assumed that there had been a closure/accident or whatever? It is almost as though it was completely lost? I have an old but up to date Tom Tom that simply has (to date) not made any such errors in another vehicle of mine. Owners of the new range of MG's keep mentioning updates to the system; any ideas when?

 

[ReintjeWA]

I tried the satnav once, to see what it would look like on the driver display, but unfortunately it just showed the standard "no navigation information" or whatever it always says. So just swapped back to CarPlay and Apple Maps. In Perth you basically go North or South most of the time, and I only use satnav for the last few directions for specific addresses and such.

@Jamesrr I noticed your new profile pic (nice!), are the fangs on order for the missus or does she like the car with a little less attitude?

 

[Ian Key]

Hi Martin - can you describe where you see the cog icon? We have the standard satnav with the ZS and it doesn't send us in the wrong direction, but it keeps directing us down farm tracks to minimise the distance. So we suspect it is a problem with settings, but haven't been able to track them down.

Thanks!

I'm not sure if your sat-nav is the same as on the MG4. Tap the 3 dots below the star and then the cog icon.

 

[Jamesrr]

@Jamesrr I noticed your new profile pic (nice!), are the fangs on order for the missus or does she like the car with a little less attitude?

Fangs have miraculously grown on my dear beloved's car.
I don't know how that could have happened

 

[Brian0]

Never ended in the wrong place, but the routing is a menace in the early part of a journey. I just head generally for where I want to be (including the journey home) and it eventually gets the idea of how to get there. On a short journey from Aldershot to Reading it suggested the Blackwater Valley (2 miles in the wrong direction) and onto the M3, which doesn't go anywhere near Reading.

 

[Joules]

Just show me where I am then I put in a post code. It shows me where to go but it's not going the right way. I found this out today: my mate had Google maps on so I knew we were not going the right way. It wanted to take me miles out the way.

Hi I see you live in a fairly rural location(according to Google maps) It might be similar to us up here in very rural Southern Scotland, our post code covers an area about a half mile radius and the centre of it is nowhere near where we live, in fact I had to persuade to PO have the post code changed to better reflect where we actually were as post and parcels used to get delivered to a farm a mile away! I digress, I found that you have to set the "home" button when you are actually sitting outside your house or driveway, that way it puts in the coordinates of that location. I think the process was about saving it, but can't quite remember now, I know it was quite easy once I experimented with it. I must say that I haven't had any problems with the sat nav, although on occasions it has wanted to send me a different direction but has come up with a message first giving an alternative route...which I have ignored only to find that there was traffic light and road works further on. Even though I know my home, it's handy to have an ETA and mileage on display, that way you can check against the GOM. Hope this helps.

 

[Deleted member 2148]

Hi I got 2024 MG4 trophy. I stopped using the navigation system because I put my home destination in and it took me miles out the way no where near my home has anyone else had this problem.

No problems at all on mine are you running the latest software?

 

[mcderd]

I tried the satnav once, to see what it would look like on the driver display, but unfortunately it just showed the standard "no navigation information" or whatever it always says. So just swapped back to CarPlay and Apple Maps. In Perth you basically go North or South most of the time, and I only use satnav for the last few directions for specific addresses and such.

@Jamesrr I noticed your new profile pic (nice!), are the fangs on order for the missus or does she like the car with a little less attitude?

I have just got an MG S5 EV, which does the same. I cannot get the media information or the navigation to show on the driver's display. Did you find a fix for yours?

 

[ReintjeWA]

I have just got an MG S5 EV, which does the same. I cannot get the media information or the navigation to show on the driver's display. Did you find a fix for yours?

Nah I just use the CarPlay screen, I hardly use navigation anyway, and have the drivers screen set to my tyre pressures.

 

[mcderd]

Thankd for the reply, it's weird, I got mine to work today, both for media and nav. Then it stopped working again. I will be using Android Auto, so will just set it to one of the other screens, it's just a bit annoying with a brand new car not doing what it should

 

[decrep]

Weird one for me, I had a conflict with AA google and ABRP, whichever one was speaking told me to merge into state route 1 but the map had a T junction and I could only go left or right so I went left, which was 100% wrong, and the voice instructions made no sense at all.

I think part of the problem, is sat reception when phone is sitting on its shelf

 

[salty]

The few times I've used my Sat Nav, it's been fine. Of course they will send you the wrong way occasionally, pretty sure they all do.
But if it's, sending you towards the edge of a Cliff, don't listen to it.

 

[barry7153]

Hi I got 2024 MG4 trophy. I stopped using the navigation system because I put my home destination in and it took me miles out the way no where near my home has anyone else had this problem.

I have had similar experiences but only when using Android auto and Google maps, when the car can suddenly lose GPS signal and start giving random directions. Don't think I've noticed it when using onboard navigation system.