SYNC Turn By Turn Directions
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SYNC Turn By Turn Directions
My wife and I took a trip to see family over the holiday and we used the SYNC Turn By Turn directions. Thought I would explain some basics about how it worked:
1) You first have to set up an account on the SYNC web site. The SYNC online system needs your basic info, VIN, and cell phone number linked to the car. This online account is part of the SYNC services that is free for 3 years, and then $60 per year after that (IIRC). Once this is set up, you can use the Turn By Turn directions.
2) When you are ready to use the Turn By Turn directions, have your cell phone with you, then hit your SYNC button, say services, then say directions. After saying directions, it calls in to the SYNC services using your phone. From here, it will ask you what city and state you are going to. After that, it will ask you for an address, intersection, or "find a business". Once you have the address locked in, it finds your current location using the GPS (I'm pretty sure it uses the GPS built into the car, not the one your phone might have), and then it downloads the directions through the phone. Once the download is complete, the phone call ends and the in-car SYNC takes over again.
3) As you are traveling, it will inform you several times before each turn. IIRC, it informs you once when you are just a few miles away, once when you are almost there, and once when it's time to make the turn. If you leave the designated path it downloaded, it will inform you you have left the route, and you can either tell it to update or not. If you choose not to update, it will suspend until to return to the route. So, for example, if you leave the highway to stop at a gas station, it will tell you you left the route. You tell it "no" to not update the route when it asks. And then it starts up again when you get back on the highway and it detects you are back on route.
4) The directions end when you reach the destination or when you activate SYNC and say "cancel route".
A few more things to know: Every time directions are issued, music play is suspended. Music resumes after the digital lady finishes telling you about the next turn or whatever. The Turn By Turn directions sound level is independent of the music level. If you turn the music up or down, the directions sound level remains unchanged. If you turn the directions sound up or down, the music sound level remains unchanged.
Overall, we were very happy with how the system worked. There were a couple of times where it told us we went off route when we didn't, then a short time later it said we had returned to route. This happened to us once when taking an offramp between highways, and once on a straight stretch of highway. Something to watch out for, as it can make you second guess whether or not you went the right way. But that only happed twice as I recall over a ~1500 mile trip.
It uses your cell phone only when setting a new destination and when downloading the route. Download only happens when first setting up your route, and if you at any point update the route.
1) You first have to set up an account on the SYNC web site. The SYNC online system needs your basic info, VIN, and cell phone number linked to the car. This online account is part of the SYNC services that is free for 3 years, and then $60 per year after that (IIRC). Once this is set up, you can use the Turn By Turn directions.
2) When you are ready to use the Turn By Turn directions, have your cell phone with you, then hit your SYNC button, say services, then say directions. After saying directions, it calls in to the SYNC services using your phone. From here, it will ask you what city and state you are going to. After that, it will ask you for an address, intersection, or "find a business". Once you have the address locked in, it finds your current location using the GPS (I'm pretty sure it uses the GPS built into the car, not the one your phone might have), and then it downloads the directions through the phone. Once the download is complete, the phone call ends and the in-car SYNC takes over again.
3) As you are traveling, it will inform you several times before each turn. IIRC, it informs you once when you are just a few miles away, once when you are almost there, and once when it's time to make the turn. If you leave the designated path it downloaded, it will inform you you have left the route, and you can either tell it to update or not. If you choose not to update, it will suspend until to return to the route. So, for example, if you leave the highway to stop at a gas station, it will tell you you left the route. You tell it "no" to not update the route when it asks. And then it starts up again when you get back on the highway and it detects you are back on route.
4) The directions end when you reach the destination or when you activate SYNC and say "cancel route".
A few more things to know: Every time directions are issued, music play is suspended. Music resumes after the digital lady finishes telling you about the next turn or whatever. The Turn By Turn directions sound level is independent of the music level. If you turn the music up or down, the directions sound level remains unchanged. If you turn the directions sound up or down, the music sound level remains unchanged.
Overall, we were very happy with how the system worked. There were a couple of times where it told us we went off route when we didn't, then a short time later it said we had returned to route. This happened to us once when taking an offramp between highways, and once on a straight stretch of highway. Something to watch out for, as it can make you second guess whether or not you went the right way. But that only happed twice as I recall over a ~1500 mile trip.
It uses your cell phone only when setting a new destination and when downloading the route. Download only happens when first setting up your route, and if you at any point update the route.
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Here are some videos about many of SYNC's features. Please share in all forums and within our mustang community. Post your video also.
https://themustangsource.com/f726/vi...st-see-485290/
https://themustangsource.com/f726/vi...st-see-485290/
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