Just been fiddling around with Volvo's options - the Garmin sourced sat-nav on the V50 is an eye watering £1500.00 how is that justified ????
The Sat Nav, pops up out of the top of the dash in a Thuderbirds sort of way, but £1500.00 ?????
The car we're getting is well spec'd including the solid gold, diamond encrusted sat-nav....but flippin' 'eck !
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Does it come with a free pair of loafers (or Brashers) like the Pagani Zonda?
Last edited by: corax on Mon 2 Jan 12 at 17:38
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I surprised the owner of two BMWs would be fazed by the prices on a Volvo option list.
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Does seem a bit steep for an Escort with airs...
:-p
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I hope and assume that being second user, you are not paying for these fripperies. They have no value second hand.
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Isn't a V50 a Focus with slippers?
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Posh-ish slippers to be fair.
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>> Isn't a V50 a Focus with slippers?
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Who would ever have thought of a Mercedes with a Renault engine ? Or a Nissan sharing a platform with a Mercedes E class.
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What spec is it ?
According to the Volvo website configurator, it's only £1,000 to go from SE to SE Lux spec which includes RTI Navigation.
Have you spec'd the grocery bag holder ? On the S60 it saves having to clamber in to retrieve anything which would otherwise have moved.
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Spec'd nawt, it's an ex-Volvo car, saving around 10000 on list & options. If I was speccing a sat-nav it would be a 100 quid TT effort !
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The satnav updates alone are around £250 on Mercs - more expensive than a decent stand-alone TomTom or Garmin. Absolutely bonkers.
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No - DVLA have changed the way they work - we're waiting for the transfer papers on the MX5 - the dealer buying it want it on it's original plates before they'll take it. LVLO was shut until today (since Christmas Monday) - get it probably end of the week. Mrs RP was complaining a bit, I'd taken the X1 to er...work and the leccy was off here (storms etc) and a fine blustery afternoon could have been spent on the beach with the "boys".....I didn't get home until after two and she's off to work....:-(
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Yeah I left my "cherished plate" on the Mondeo when I sold it. I'd had it for donkey's years and while it probably wasn't worth much and it really only meant something to me as it had been around such a long time I'd become disenchanted with the faff of changing it from vehicle to vehicle. As I had also got a company car by then the only real option other than to sell it or put it on retention would have been to put it on my wife's car but she wasn't bothered.
I was never very sure why I kept it so long really. Sentimental value only. Certainly wasn't an effort to make my car look posh. That would have been a brief too far for a Mondeo estate!
I sort of miss it but not enough to ponder it for too long.
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>> The satnav updates alone are around £250 on Mercs - more expensive than a decent
>> stand-alone TomTom or Garmin. Absolutely bonkers.
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I can't be 100% sure, but I'm sure somewhere in the bumph that came with mine its says I get free updates for 3 years - might even be on the price list?
Though updating every year isn't necessary - I only bought one update for the A4 (taking me from 2008 to 2010) and even that was an extravagance really. Despite that both it (2010) and the MB one (2011) don't get the A4/A26 interchange around Reims right even now; both insist that you're off-road!
I'm in two minds on the integrated solutions; they're undoubtedly less hassle and more, well, integrated, but manufacturers do take the mickey with the price of these things. On balance though, I think the one in the A4 (which was a £900 retro-fit of an OEM unit) was money well spent, if only for teh great voice control operated from teh steering wheel. Price if ordered new was almost £1.5k from memory! The system in the Merc was standard, so difficult to be picky!
On the other hand the cheap Garmin unit we bought in '06 has never been updated, but it's never caused any insurmountable problems
Peter
Last edited by: PeterS on Tue 3 Jan 12 at 17:46
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I have to say the one in the v50 is "shiny kit" it has a wireless remote and is impressive in the way it raises itself from the dashboard top, but not worth the money.
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I like the sat nav integrated in my Passat CC. Miss features of my TomTom (which of course I could still use) but the fact it's integrated and does not need setting up etc. And it was standard kit for this car. Although I know it was effectively included in the list price.... but there were enhancements to spec worth £3000 that only cost £1500 more.
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Few pay this much for options. They are part of the bargaining/adding value process. A sales tool.
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Everything finally fell into place today, 5 working days after DVLA started the process with my wife's plate transfer. The car arrived this afternoon, not had much chance to look at it let alone drive it - I didn't get home until 3.30pm and Mrs RP was leaving for work 4.20pm so I had to satisfy myself with a sit down in it and revving the engine (boy-like) - that 5 cylinder motor sounds very good - anyway should have more time tomorrow.
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Have I heard that these integrated Sat Nav systems are very expensive to update? 4 Europe updates a year for £38 on TomTom, I think.
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I only updated my TomTom maps the last time because the new European maps included Greece. They are still a couple of years out of date.
My car should have the latest maps for it's built in sat nav (an update came out middle of last year that included 7 digit postcodes).... probably get by with that for the 3 years I have it.
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It's a Garmin machine in the Volvo - I had much the same thought this afternoon when I had a play with it, not sure yet how to update the mapping.
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In the course of researching the costs of Garmin upgrades I came across this nugget of information, on the Garmin site
IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you are planning to travel in France, please be aware that as of 1 January 2012 a proposed legal ban on the public use of speed camera data is due to come into force.
This is confirmed by a number of motoring forums found by a Google search. If you have a TT with a camera subscription and update it the French cameras will be deleted, apparently.
Please excuse thread drift/hijack!
Last edited by: Meldrew on Wed 11 Jan 12 at 19:02
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Thanks Meldrew...interesting.
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No English driver needs to know about French speed cameras anyway. Its gone and forgotten in a flash.
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May be about to change though...:-)
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Well, it updates via a DVD - Mrs RP e-mailed them to "register" the system and we're getting the update disc for nothing.
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Yes, I gather it highlights "Edinburgh Woollen Mills" automatically in the points of interest menu...
Last edited by: Humph D'Bout on Sat 21 Jan 12 at 17:10
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Volvo V50 - Cost of options. - corax
