How daft is this?

[graffiti]

Got a call to go to Rugby (the place!) yesterday, not in my car (no maps) but had my 660 so plugged it in and set to fastest route

Took me down the M6 and onto the M6 toll....

Brought me off the Toll at T4 (£3.70) and onto the A38....

5 mins later BACK ONTO THE M6 TOLL at T2.......

Came off..another £3.70....and back onto the M6.....

How does that work......why not stay on M6 toll or just M6?

Lessons, always have map to hand ...

 

[Blue Sweeper]

..........or set preferences to avoid Toll roads.

 

[Taff]

... Lessons, always have <s>map</s> owners manual to hand ...

Fixed it for you.

 

[Taff]

Sorry if my post came across as flippant Graffiti, but there is a way of avoiding this and it is explained in the manual. At the start, mine had a habit of taking me off motorways, down the slip road, up the slip road the other side and back onto the same road I'd just turned off 200yds earlier. It was something to do with road preferences IIRC.

Once your GPS unit is set up properly to your preferences, it should avoid these stupid suggestions.

 

[Bem]

Whilst not argiung with Taffs description, I had something similar happen to me going up the A30 (or wherever it was!) when my Quest did the self same thing - took me two junctions to realise what was going on. Did not reoccur when I went down that way a few years later, but had updated maps by then, so assume it oculd be a mapping issue.

 

[graffiti]

Not flippant at all Taf and good advice..you get lazy with Sat nav's sometimes and forget their only as good as the info put in!

I'll know better next time (hopefully..)

 

[skellum]

Sorry if my post came across as flippant Graffiti, but there is a way of avoiding this and it is explained in the manual. At the start, mine had a habit of taking me off motorways, down the slip road, up the slip road the other side and back onto the same road I'd just turned off 200yds earlier. It was something to do with road preferences IIRC.

Once your GPS unit is set up properly to your preferences, it should avoid these stupid suggestions.

I have also experienced the same thing recently - obviously if you are using Mapsource in planning a route then I usually zoom in to check that the route is as planned however, I am not sure how preferences would negate this issue arising unless I have missed something.
i.e., if I ask my 660 to navigate me somewhere whilst out on the bike, occasionally it will want to take me off a slip road and then back on the same road again - never happened with my 2820 but maybe that was just a coincidence..