Johnny Rocket
VIP Member
Evening all,
I'm grateful for help resolving an annoying 'car knows better' issue which only appeared recently on my Aug '21 Ocean.
My main dash display has always been set to what I think is called 'Classic' layout - i.e. with two full-size round analogue dials and a user-selectable information panel in the centre section between the tacho and speedo - I always had this middle part set to the 'driving data' summary option, and would only scroll up or down within that option to see my fuel or maybe occasionally AdBlue range, always afterwards reverting to driving data for that trip.
And I use Google Maps as my navigator. And I'm happy with that; so any answer needs to be only Google Maps-specific please !
So far so good . . . .
A few weeks ago I found the centre panel showing my driving data would, without request, switch to show simple turn-by-turn driving instructions from the SatNav . . . . the only pattern I've so far been able to establish with this behaviour, is that often the change to what's shown in the central panel comes after some action on the main Nav screen, whether reloading or changing a route, adding a stop, or whatever. But I'm sure also that sometimes it flips entirely of its own accord.
Try as I might, I have found nothing anywhere in any menu which can successfully lock the centre main dash space again to show driving data-only, although it definitely did stay with this setting always for the 4+ years previous to this !!!
I'm grateful if anyone knows what's going on here . . . better still can offer a fix, but please, and no offence here to anyone's alternative preferences, I don't want to know how much better Apple Maps or Waze is, or why I should be delighted to have turn-by-turn instructions imposed on me when I didn't ask for them - we can have a vote on this question if anyone cares to in another thread (although that debate has likely been done to death many times already) !!!
Thanks in advance folks ! John.
I'm grateful for help resolving an annoying 'car knows better' issue which only appeared recently on my Aug '21 Ocean.
My main dash display has always been set to what I think is called 'Classic' layout - i.e. with two full-size round analogue dials and a user-selectable information panel in the centre section between the tacho and speedo - I always had this middle part set to the 'driving data' summary option, and would only scroll up or down within that option to see my fuel or maybe occasionally AdBlue range, always afterwards reverting to driving data for that trip.
And I use Google Maps as my navigator. And I'm happy with that; so any answer needs to be only Google Maps-specific please !
So far so good . . . .
A few weeks ago I found the centre panel showing my driving data would, without request, switch to show simple turn-by-turn driving instructions from the SatNav . . . . the only pattern I've so far been able to establish with this behaviour, is that often the change to what's shown in the central panel comes after some action on the main Nav screen, whether reloading or changing a route, adding a stop, or whatever. But I'm sure also that sometimes it flips entirely of its own accord.
Try as I might, I have found nothing anywhere in any menu which can successfully lock the centre main dash space again to show driving data-only, although it definitely did stay with this setting always for the 4+ years previous to this !!!
I'm grateful if anyone knows what's going on here . . . better still can offer a fix, but please, and no offence here to anyone's alternative preferences, I don't want to know how much better Apple Maps or Waze is, or why I should be delighted to have turn-by-turn instructions imposed on me when I didn't ask for them - we can have a vote on this question if anyone cares to in another thread (although that debate has likely been done to death many times already) !!!
Thanks in advance folks ! John.
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