Activating Co Pilot 5 EU Maps

[topgazza]

Can this still be done ? I have the maps on CD that came with my CP5. Is this worth doing or should I just upgrade, if cost effective to CP6 and EU maps?
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TomTom 720

Nokia Lumia 800 with Nokia Maps, iPhone 4S with Apple Maps (sigh)

[Robin2]

I paid £100 to upgrade to CP6 pan Europe maps (having been reasonably satisfied with the CP5 Europe maps). I wished I hadn't bothered. The French maps were virtually unusable - at many motorway junctions the slip road appeared impassable, so CP6 produced crazy routes to avoid that point on the map. There were similar glitches on other roads too, so that CP6 would take me 25 miles, through a very busy town centre, to drive to a village 10 miles away by perfectly good D roads. After 9 months some of the first problems were fixed and they send me a replacement set of CDs, but I still had other unpredictable crazy routes from time to time. It reached the point that if I was in an area of France which I didn't know well, I couldn't trust CoPilot - which rather defeats the object of sat nav!!!
Apart from an occasional tendency to suggest unsurfaced tracks, TomTom has proved much more reliable
Robin
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TomTom One v3 Europe, Navcore 7.903, Western Europe 835.2420
TomTom Go 720 Europe, Navcore 8.351, Western Europe 855.2884
Satmap Active 10
Plus a lot of other PDA GPS kit, seldom used

[topgazza]

Had some very quick replies from ALK support today which at least is impressive. But o spend another £100 and have such problems puts me off as I have heard this elsewhere. Most of my driving will be in Spain and I would trust that even less based on evidence. I am edging more and more towards the TT One even though I have TT5 on PDA as when I go abroad it comes down to even more cables/chargers etc to cope with.

So, as much as I have had a pretty flawless service from CP5 I think the step to CP6 is too risky and I will be waving it bye bye. Shame.
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TomTom 720

Nokia Lumia 800 with Nokia Maps, iPhone 4S with Apple Maps (sigh)

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