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Is There Anywhere Online With A Full Explanation of a Captur Satnav System?

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6.7K views 10 replies 6 participants last post by  Rogerdodger  
#1 · (Edited)
I'm aware that there are two versions of the Captur satnav system, but the only person in my own circle of acquaintance I can attempt to communicate with on the subject - indirectly - is a workmate's wife and the more she tells me (via her husband) about her satnav, the more I realise it's different from mine.

She talks about updating the map software by removing an SD card and then plugging in a memory stick containing updates downloaded from the Web, then removing the stick and putting the SD card back in, but I can find no sign at all of an SD card slot anywhere on or near my media console - and the erstwhile media socket location next to the cigar lighter is just a gap where a blanking plate has presumably fallen out when the car was in the possession of its previous owners. My Captur has its USB port above the media screen, which presumably says something about what generation it is.

The car is a 2016 1.5 diesel manual.

Is there anywhere on the Web where I can identify my satnav system and find out the answers to any question under the sun? And does anyone recognise my description of my own system and know precisely how to update the map software?

Thanks.
 
Discussion starter · #4 · (Edited)
Many thanks to you both for your posts. So it looks like mine is a Media Nav Evolution, then. With no free updates.

Bummer.

Copilot looks very tempting indeed, I must say. Now all I need is a smartphone, which I've so far resisted because (a) I've never seen the point of having one, (b) they cost money and (c) most don't appear to last for more than two years, unlike my Motorola flip-phone which has already done eleven years and is still using its original battery. But I s'pose I'd better buy one and a big one too or else what'd be the purpose of putting Copilot on it?

All very unsettling for an old miser like myself, I must say. Looks like the grandchildren will only be getting a Custard Cream biscuit each for Christmas this year, then.

(Sorry to have taken days to respond. I was away from home and when I tried to log in via an alien PC, I couldn't remember my original password. That's what extreme old age does to you.)
 
Discussion starter · #8 ·
Well, many thanks for that, Rogerdodger....and now I'm even more confused, just when I thought I'd made sense of everything at long last.

My workmate gave me to understand that with an R-Link system there's an actual SD card slot somewhere on the media console, very much like that on a digital camera, and that the card is removed by gently pushing it inwards with your fingernail, which makes it click out of place and protrude from the slot. I have no such slot on mine, so it seemed to me that I had a Media Nav Evolution satnav, i.e. the type that came after the R-Link system.

As for plugging an SD-to-USB adaptor into the USB port and leaving it there.... What function would that perform (other than rendering it impossible to play music from a memory stick simultaneously)?

I freely admit that I just don't get any of this stuff. Why don't they just tear out the media console and fit a holy water stoup instead? At least it'd be simple to operate and if you weren't at all religious you could just ignore it altogether.

Bring back the Ford Popular, sez I.
 
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