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as you may have seen im in the market for a newer car , it was previously a choice between a new style Vectra or the C5 , both diesel. Ive been looking around and came across a Peugeot 406 2004 model that has sat-nav . Is this a free to use gizmo on the car or does one have to pay each year to make it work ? Any advice on this thread please ? Oh its a Diesel hdi 90 , should I really have the 110 ?
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Satnav is free to use, except that it will get increasingly out of date unless you update the CD (possibly DVD, but probably not on a 406) at a cost of about £100 (or more) each year.
Should you have the 110? Probably, but drive it and see. How much is the car? Even with the kit, it'll need to be cheap to make the vertical depreciation a late 406 will suffer from even halfway palatable.
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The car in question is a 406 saloon "S" model with 8,000 miles on it , the price.............£9,000.
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GPS satellite system is provided free of charge by US military! You might need to buy updated maps from time to time. Note that you can buy a new PDA-based GPS nav system for under £400, so don't be overly swayed by it.
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These 'run-out' 406 are just now showing up in auction.
Not taken much notice of the saloon, but an estate made £11050 about 8 weeks back in Blackbushe. It was in white,SE spec, 110, & 8K on the clock.Registered late 03.I was 1/2 interested in it, but thought it £2,000 to dear!!
Think you'd be better off looking for an GTX, or, if you can stand the awful leather seats, an Executive.
VB
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excuse my silly question here , but i dont know . How does the Peugeot 406 sat-nav actually work , does it just guide you to a town or city , or does it actually know the streets in each town ?
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How does the Peugeot 406 sat-nav actually work , does it just guide you to a town or city , or does it actually know the streets in each town ?
The turn by turn one guides down to house numbers. Works for houses, but can be a slight issue finding business premises on long roads. There's no postcode facility.
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So it will actually find streets in any Town ? Ideal for a taxi driver who is not sure of the area ?
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My 406 was Sept 2000, just a month or two before the free satnav appeared. Aprilia is quite right - a PDA-based navigator is a good solution, with upgrades generally free from the internet. I have just purchased one of these (iPAQ 2210 + TomTom) and it is the best motoring purchase I have ever made - although a few probs with TomTom (the manufacturer, not the software) being rather unhelpful.
CG
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So it will actually find streets in any Town ? Ideal for a taxi driver who is not sure of the area ?
I had it for a year and I don't think it ever failed to list an address. It would probably be better for the use you described than it was for me - on major journeys it sometimes tried to take strange routes (cutting the corner off the M5 South /M42 East junction, for example).
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