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I have an 07 Civic with the built-in nav system that has an annoying
"feature". When I go on long trips for vacations, I like to take back
roads, state highways and such, and I used to do this with just a
pocket atlas at hand. I'm planning a trip and if I put in a
destination anywhere over 60 or so miles away, I don't get the option
to minimize freeways. Is there any way around this? I'd like to put
in my final destination, about 900 miles away and minimize freeways,
but the thing just won't let me do it. Any ideas?

Thanks!

In article <1182689418.188593.260930@k79g2000hse.googlegroups .com>,
drksky1056@hotmail.com wrote:

> I have an 07 Civic with the built-in nav system that has an annoying
> "feature". When I go on long trips for vacations, I like to take back
> roads, state highways and such, and I used to do this with just a
> pocket atlas at hand. I'm planning a trip and if I put in a
> destination anywhere over 60 or so miles away, I don't get the option
> to minimize freeways. Is there any way around this? I'd like to put
> in my final destination, about 900 miles away and minimize freeways,
> but the thing just won't let me do it. Any ideas?

Yeah.

You spent $2000 for that system, which is built in and which you cannot
take from car to car. You also cannot choose what features you want.

You could spend $500 for a nice portable system that does all you want
and much more, and which goes from car to car.

Spend the $500, and get a Garmin system that does what you want.

On Jun 24, 10:10 am, "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <e...@nastydesigns.com>
wrote:
> In article <1182689418.188593.260...@k79g2000hse.googlegroups .com>,
>
> drksky1...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > I have an 07 Civic with the built-in nav system that has an annoying
> > "feature". When I go on long trips for vacations, I like to take back
> > roads, state highways and such, and I used to do this with just a
> > pocket atlas at hand. I'm planning a trip and if I put in a
> > destination anywhere over 60 or so miles away, I don't get the option
> > to minimize freeways. Is there any way around this? I'd like to put
> > in my final destination, about 900 miles away and minimize freeways,
> > but the thing just won't let me do it. Any ideas?
>
> Yeah.
>
> You spent $2000 for that system, which is built in and which you cannot
> take from car to car. You also cannot choose what features you want.
>
> You could spend $500 for a nice portable system that does all you want
> and much more, and which goes from car to car.
>
> Spend the $500, and get a Garmin system that does what you want.

Thanks for the smart-ass remark that nobody needed.

On Jun 24, 10:10 am, "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <e...@nastydesigns.com>
wrote:
> In article <1182689418.188593.260...@k79g2000hse.googlegroups .com>,
>
> drksky1...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > I have an 07 Civic with the built-in nav system that has an annoying
> > "feature". When I go on long trips for vacations, I like to take back
> > roads, state highways and such, and I used to do this with just a
> > pocket atlas at hand. I'm planning a trip and if I put in a
> > destination anywhere over 60 or so miles away, I don't get the option
> > to minimize freeways. Is there any way around this? I'd like to put
> > in my final destination, about 900 miles away and minimize freeways,
> > but the thing just won't let me do it. Any ideas?
>
> Yeah.
>
> You spent $2000 for that system, which is built in and which you cannot
> take from car to car. You also cannot choose what features you want.
>
> You could spend $500 for a nice portable system that does all you want
> and much more, and which goes from car to car.
>
> Spend the $500, and get a Garmin system that does what you want.

Thanks for the smart-ass remark that nobody needed. What do you do?
Troll usenet forums looking for someone to berate?

Schmuck

drksky wrote:
> On Jun 24, 10:10 am, "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <e...@nastydesigns.com>
> wrote:
>> In article <1182689418.188593.260...@k79g2000hse.googlegroups .com>,
>>
>> drksky1...@hotmail.com wrote:
>>> I have an 07 Civic with the built-in nav system that has an annoying
>>> "feature". When I go on long trips for vacations, I like to take back
>>> roads, state highways and such, and I used to do this with just a
>>> pocket atlas at hand. I'm planning a trip and if I put in a
>>> destination anywhere over 60 or so miles away, I don't get the option
>>> to minimize freeways. Is there any way around this? I'd like to put
>>> in my final destination, about 900 miles away and minimize freeways,
>>> but the thing just won't let me do it. Any ideas?
>> Yeah.
>>
>> You spent $2000 for that system, which is built in and which you cannot
>> take from car to car. You also cannot choose what features you want.
>>
>> You could spend $500 for a nice portable system that does all you want
>> and much more, and which goes from car to car.
>>
>> Spend the $500, and get a Garmin system that does what you want.
>
> Thanks for the smart-ass remark that nobody needed.

you may not like the tone, but the content is absolutely correct!


> What do you do?
> Troll usenet forums looking for someone to berate?
>
> Schmuck
>

On Jun 25, 7:42 am, jim beam <spamvor...@bad.example.net> wrote:
> drksky wrote:
> > On Jun 24, 10:10 am, "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <e...@nastydesigns.com>
> > wrote:
> >> In article <1182689418.188593.260...@k79g2000hse.googlegroups .com>,
>
> >> drksky1...@hotmail.com wrote:
> >>> I have an 07 Civic with the built-in nav system that has an annoying
> >>> "feature". When I go on long trips for vacations, I like to take back
> >>> roads, state highways and such, and I used to do this with just a
> >>> pocket atlas at hand. I'm planning a trip and if I put in a
> >>> destination anywhere over 60 or so miles away, I don't get the option
> >>> to minimize freeways. Is there any way around this? I'd like to put
> >>> in my final destination, about 900 miles away and minimize freeways,
> >>> but the thing just won't let me do it. Any ideas?
> >> Yeah.
>
> >> You spent $2000 for that system, which is built in and which you cannot
> >> take from car to car. You also cannot choose what features you want.
>
> >> You could spend $500 for a nice portable system that does all you want
> >> and much more, and which goes from car to car.
>
> >> Spend the $500, and get a Garmin system that does what you want.
>
> > Thanks for the smart-ass remark that nobody needed.
>
> you may not like the tone, but the content is absolutely correct!
>
> > What do you do?
> > Troll usenet forums looking for someone to berate?
>
> > Schmuck

No, the tone was condecending and insulting as was the content. I got
the nav system not only for that, but for the other sound system
options that it came with and to add resale to the car. I asked a
simple question and was responded to with "spend another $500",
instead of either suggestions on how to alleviate the problem or that
there was no solution.

In short, a usenet troll that likes to be insulting and start
arguments.

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:50:18 -0700, drksky1056@hotmail.com wrote:

>I have an 07 Civic with the built-in nav system that has an annoying
>"feature". When I go on long trips for vacations, I like to take back
>roads, state highways and such, and I used to do this with just a
>pocket atlas at hand. I'm planning a trip and if I put in a
>destination anywhere over 60 or so miles away, I don't get the option
>to minimize freeways. Is there any way around this? I'd like to put
>in my final destination, about 900 miles away and minimize freeways,
>but the thing just won't let me do it. Any ideas?
>
>Thanks!

Are you saying that you can turn off the maximize freeways for routes
up to about 60 miles, but over that the option is not there? My nav
is in an Accord so may be a little different, but I have had the
freeways turned off for routes up to 300 miles. Haven't tried it
further than that.

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On Jun 25, 10:51 am, Dick <w...@k7yca.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:50:18 -0700, drksky1...@hotmail.com wrote:
> >I have an 07 Civic with the built-in nav system that has an annoying
> >"feature". When I go on long trips for vacations, I like to take back
> >roads, state highways and such, and I used to do this with just a
> >pocket atlas at hand. I'm planning a trip and if I put in a
> >destination anywhere over 60 or so miles away, I don't get the option
> >to minimize freeways. Is there any way around this? I'd like to put
> >in my final destination, about 900 miles away and minimize freeways,
> >but the thing just won't let me do it. Any ideas?
>
> >Thanks!
>
> Are you saying that you can turn off the maximize freeways for routes
> up to about 60 miles, but over that the option is not there? My nav
> is in an Accord so may be a little different, but I have had the
> freeways turned off for routes up to 300 miles. Haven't tried it
> further than that.
>
> --
> Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com

That's exactly it. Say I put in a route to go from Chicago to St.
Louis, but I don't want to take I-55, so I try to change the routing
options, but the only ones available are Direct, East and Maximize
Freeways. But if I were to put in Chicao go Kankakee, I have those
three routing options, plus Minimize Freeways and one other (I don't
remember what the 5th option was). It's quite annoying.

On a related note, has anyone tried to go to the hondanavi.com site?
There's a link from the main Honda site that there is an updated DVD
available, but taking that link results in Mozilla saying, "Waiting
for hondanavi.com" which just eventually yields a blank page.

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:29:13 -0700, drksky <drksky1056@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>On Jun 25, 10:51 am, Dick <w...@k7yca.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:50:18 -0700, drksky1...@hotmail.com wrote:
>> >I have an 07 Civic with the built-in nav system that has an annoying
>> >"feature". When I go on long trips for vacations, I like to take back
>> >roads, state highways and such, and I used to do this with just a
>> >pocket atlas at hand. I'm planning a trip and if I put in a
>> >destination anywhere over 60 or so miles away, I don't get the option
>> >to minimize freeways. Is there any way around this? I'd like to put
>> >in my final destination, about 900 miles away and minimize freeways,
>> >but the thing just won't let me do it. Any ideas?
>>
>> >Thanks!
>>
>> Are you saying that you can turn off the maximize freeways for routes
>> up to about 60 miles, but over that the option is not there? My nav
>> is in an Accord so may be a little different, but I have had the
>> freeways turned off for routes up to 300 miles. Haven't tried it
>> further than that.
>>
>> --
>> Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com
>
>That's exactly it. Say I put in a route to go from Chicago to St.
>Louis, but I don't want to take I-55, so I try to change the routing
>options, but the only ones available are Direct, East and Maximize
>Freeways. But if I were to put in Chicao go Kankakee, I have those
>three routing options, plus Minimize Freeways and one other (I don't
>remember what the 5th option was). It's quite annoying.
>
>On a related note, has anyone tried to go to the hondanavi.com site?
>There's a link from the main Honda site that there is an updated DVD
>available, but taking that link results in Mozilla saying, "Waiting
>for hondanavi.com" which just eventually yields a blank page.
>

I just tried it and went right to the order page. Of course it was
for the Accord and not the Civic. Didn't try that one. Try this one
and maybe you can use it to get to the Civic DVD.
http://automobiles.honda.com/models/...=Accord+Sedan#

Sometimes these sites are very hard to access if you have pop-ups
blocked, cookies screwed down, etc. Might check that with your
browser.

Dick

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drksky wrote:
> On Jun 25, 7:42 am, jim beam <spamvor...@bad.example.net> wrote:
>> drksky wrote:
>>> On Jun 24, 10:10 am, "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <e...@nastydesigns.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> In article <1182689418.188593.260...@k79g2000hse.googlegroups .com>,
>>>> drksky1...@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>>> I have an 07 Civic with the built-in nav system that has an annoying
>>>>> "feature". When I go on long trips for vacations, I like to take back
>>>>> roads, state highways and such, and I used to do this with just a
>>>>> pocket atlas at hand. I'm planning a trip and if I put in a
>>>>> destination anywhere over 60 or so miles away, I don't get the option
>>>>> to minimize freeways. Is there any way around this? I'd like to put
>>>>> in my final destination, about 900 miles away and minimize freeways,
>>>>> but the thing just won't let me do it. Any ideas?
>>>> Yeah.
>>>> You spent $2000 for that system, which is built in and which you cannot
>>>> take from car to car. You also cannot choose what features you want.
>>>> You could spend $500 for a nice portable system that does all you want
>>>> and much more, and which goes from car to car.
>>>> Spend the $500, and get a Garmin system that does what you want.
>>> Thanks for the smart-ass remark that nobody needed.
>> you may not like the tone, but the content is absolutely correct!
>>
>>> What do you do?
>>> Troll usenet forums looking for someone to berate?
>>> Schmuck
>
> No, the tone was condecending and insulting as was the content. I got
> the nav system not only for that, but for the other sound system
> options that it came with and to add resale to the car. I asked a
> simple question and was responded to with "spend another $500",
> instead of either suggestions on how to alleviate the problem or that
> there was no solution.

really? what part of "You also cannot choose what features you want."
was unclear?

>
> In short, a usenet troll that likes to be insulting and start
> arguments.

my, you have a thin skin for someone that's happy to go from zero to
schmuck in less than 2 seconds. get over it.