Comand 2 gets lost...

[grayb]

We have experienced the Comand 2 fitted to our 2003 CLK55 getting seriously lost on at least two occaisions - it stayed lost for up to an hour, showing the car tracking across fields alongside the motorway! There seemed to be only between 1 and 3 satellites being picked up, and it had been following the road perfectly until suddenly veering off. And, no, the road hadn't changed since the map disc was produced (M25 in one instance)...

Has anyone else experienced something like this?

Also, do these units often refuse to eject a CD in the front loading slot?

 

[television]

I have experienced the same thing telling me that I was in the middle of the English channel, I knew that was wrong as my feet were dry, it only ever did it on a warm day and has been fine since, it is normally when the unit loses contact with Sats, but in my case the roof was down and the unit in the sun


Yes the eject needs cleaning, and the unit dismantled to do it.

I do have some info if you feel like having a go

 

[MBDiesal]

This only happens when the Sat-Nav loses the satellite sync i.e. tunnels, bad weather etc ... always best to look out of the window ... if you see a cliff ... jump :0)

 

[television]

This only happens when the Sat-Nav loses the satellite sync i.e. tunnels, bad weather etc ... always best to look out of the window ... if you see a cliff ... jump :0)

Actually the Comand will steer you through tunnels without losing where it is, that is a big advantage with it

 

[grayb]

This only happens when the Sat-Nav loses the satellite sync i.e. tunnels, bad weather etc ... always best to look out of the window ... if you see a cliff ... jump :0)

When ours got lost we were driving down open motorways - no tunnels. It was also sustained - lasting for 45-60 minutes... Weather the last time was normal, slightly overcast. Thanks for your suggestion anyway...

 

[Alex M Grieve]

When ours got lost we were driving down open motorways - no tunnels. It was also sustained - lasting for 45-60 minutes... Weather the last time was normal, slightly overcast. Thanks for your suggestion anyway...

Does re-booting help? It seems to help other aspects of COMAND if they get "confused".

 

[television]

Sometimes it can,it depends on if it is a Comand fault or antenna fault, Mine did it once on a 10 hour drive on the M5 around Bristol, it was trying to search to see where I was, and then started giving silly directions for getting me to that place that was shown on the map 50 to 100 from my actual position. The other time it did it was on the A35 and re booting did not help, and you have to wait while it re loads