Garmin i3 - Avoiding Motorways

[galaxy111]

Since upgrading to the latest v.8.0 map, my Garmin i3 appears to be trying to route my journeys via motorways as its preferred option. Both the M6 and M56 are close by on my journey to work, but because of local congestion I avoid using either - it's much easier and quicker to use the normal A roads.

So I thought well that's easily solved because all I need to do is go into settings and deselect 'Highways' in the Navigation/Avoidance section. WRONG - I assumed that 'Highways' means 'Motorways' only, but not so. It initially appeared to work OK as it avoided any route onto the M6 or M56, but it was aslo now avoiding a local town bypass which is a dual carraigeway that saves a fair bit of time, and was trying to send me through the centre of town with all the local traffic. I did actually ignore the instruction and took the bypass anyway which the Garmin eventually accepted and changed route, but you would need local knowledge to make this decision. So how can you setup the Garmin i3 to only avoid Motorways? Is it possible?

If it were possible to change the average speeds (as in Autoroute) for the various type of road that may add some flexibility, but I can't see how to do that on the i3 other than by vehicle type.

The specified list of roads is obviously based on American terminology. I mean, what the hell is a 'Car Pool Lane'? It would be a big improvement if the UK / European units specified road types as 'Motorways', 'Main/Trunk Roads', 'Minor Roads' etc. The road system within mainland Europe differs significantly compared to those of the US.

Does anyone with more experience of the Garmin have any useful info on avoiding certain road types?

[PaulB2005]

[matb]

might give a thought to setting it to shortest route rather than fastest, or have you tried that

[zogman]

it seems like the i3 regards both 'm' and 'a' roads as highways..like mentioned above try to set the route preference to shortest....
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[galaxy111]

[zogman]

[Aitch2]

I'd take issue with 'more accurate' - possibly you meant 'more customisable / granular'?

I find the i3 works just fine in human-override mode - I follow it when I want to and ignore when conditions dictate (ie. rush-hour) that I take a different route, following local knowledge...

Aitch
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[zogman]

'' more accurate routing capabilities '' ...not in the ''accurate'' location sense..
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