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[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

If anyone is unhappy wtih their NCDC 2013 / CID, feel free to remove it and send it to me. I want one. 

[TheBoy]

Got to agree the original is a pile of poo compared to anything this decade but it is cute, tidy and does get you there........eventually, as long as you have a road name! The lack of post code, certain place names and traffic is just a minor oversight.

I`ve been driving a Seat Leon for the past week while my new company van gets delivered and stickered up and that doesn`t have post code search either which I found odd for a 65 plate.

The Ibiza does, but like all VAG tosh, isn't that straightforward. Cant imagine the Leon is any different

[tunnie]

Full postcode in VW, tap Nav, tap postcode. Bash postcode in and press go.

So yeah, really complicated. 

[Mr Gav]

Full postcode in VW, tap Nav, tap postcode. Bash postcode in and press go.

So yeah, really complicated. 

Seat Leon.... tap nav then you have a choice of city, town and street name, no post code option on the screen and none of the other options lead me to a post code input either.

It`s gone back now otherwise I would have taken a photo of the screen.

Got the new van now anyway and no satnav to worry about 

[Doctor Gollum]

Got to agree the original is a pile of poo compared to anything this decade but it is cute, tidy and does get you there........eventually, as long as you have a road name! The lack of post code, certain place names and traffic is just a minor oversight.

I`ve been driving a Seat Leon for the past week while my new company van gets delivered and stickered up and that doesn`t have post code search either which I found odd for a 65 plate.

The Ibiza does, but like all VAG tosh, isn't that straightforward. Cant imagine the Leon is any different

Typical behaviour for the smug badge molesting self-abusers

[TheBoy]

Full postcode in VW, tap Nav, tap postcode. Bash postcode in and press go.

So yeah, really complicated. 

Yes, you'll be surprised how many struggle with it.  Exactly the same system as what's in yours. All all other post 12 VAGs


Personally, I still struggle to see the point in postcodes. If I've had to enter road name, at least I know what I'm looking for, thus not having to rely completely on technology. And it must take a whole second or so more...

[Mr Gav]

Full postcode in VW, tap Nav, tap postcode. Bash postcode in and press go.

So yeah, really complicated. 

Yes, you'll be surprised how many struggle with it.  Exactly the same system as what's in yours. All all other post 12 VAGs


Personally, I still struggle to see the point in postcodes. If I've had to enter road name, at least I know what I'm looking for, thus not having to rely completely on technology. And it must take a whole second or so more...

Post codes are handy when the sat nav doesn`t recognise the road name either, with no option for post code I had to resort to putting the town name (Irlam) and the the road name (Huntsman Drive) but after entering the H and u it only gave one road and it wasn`t Huntsman Drive so I had to rely on memory.
It`s a strange system that Highlights all letters to start with and then as you enter more letters there are less that are highlighted, after I`d entered H and u only an r was highlighted so I was unable to enter the n and there was no way of just typing the road name in, in full 

[Nick W]

Personally, I still struggle to see the point in postcodes. If I've had to enter road name, at least I know what I'm looking for, thus not having to rely completely on technology. And it must take a whole second or so more...

The Post Office designed postcodes to enable no more than 8 characters to refine an address search to a few house numbers. That eliminates the common problem of finding the right address in the wrong town. It's an efficient system that has worked for over fifty years, far longer than GPS maps have used it.
Having tried GPS that doesn't use postcodes, such obsolete systems should be put to sleep.

[Lazydocker]

Personally, I still struggle to see the point in postcodes. If I've had to enter road name, at least I know what I'm looking for, thus not having to rely completely on technology. And it must take a whole second or so more...

The Post Office designed postcodes to enable no more than 8 characters to refine an address search to a few house numbers. That eliminates the common problem of finding the right address in the wrong town. It's an efficient system that has worked for over fifty years, far longer than GPS maps have used it.
Having tried GPS that doesn't use postcodes, such obsolete systems should be put to sleep.

Except I recently used a postcode and ended up in a road of the same name in the next village (1.5 miles or so) which I was then told happens all the time

[Entwood]

Personally, I still struggle to see the point in postcodes. If I've had to enter road name, at least I know what I'm looking for, thus not having to rely completely on technology. And it must take a whole second or so more...

The Post Office designed postcodes to enable no more than 8 characters to refine an address search to a few house numbers. That eliminates the common problem of finding the right address in the wrong town. It's an efficient system that has worked for over fifty years, far longer than GPS maps have used it.
Having tried GPS that doesn't use postcodes, such obsolete systems should be put to sleep.

Which was fine 50 years ago when it was designed .. there's a village not so far from me where a single postcode covers a road 3 1/2 miles long .. which originally only had about 5 houses on it, now has over 50, and none of them numbered .. all named (posh village) ... thats a bit of a bugger ...

Also, large business district on the outskirts of swidnod .. single post code covers 3 different business estates of about 80 different companies !!

[zirk]

Except I recently used a postcode and ended up in a road of the same name in the next village (1.5 miles or so) which I was then told happens all the time

That happens to me quiet a lot, in fact more and more as years go on, and you dont necessarily have to be out in the sticks for it to happen.

Problem with Post Codes is they change or more commonly get updated on daily basis, so your only as good as your last update, unlike a National Grid Reference which will never change. Post Codes are just that, a system originally designed for the Royal Mail sorting office with the first 4 digits given a good indication of where something is for someone in the know.

Personally I never understood why we dont use the NGR System, ok, asking someone to remember there Lat and Long is probably pushing it, but a 10 digit NGR is accurate to 10 cm anywhere in the UK, it can shortened to 8,6,4 digits very easerly, a 6 Digit NGR is accurate to 10m which is smaller than your average size House, and it can be found with a Sat Nav or just using a Map / A to Z and a pencil.

You often hear horror stories of Emergency Vehicles driving up and down country lanes to to find somewhere using Navi's, I would have thought to get an Ambulance within 10 m of a NGR of where it needs to be is pretty much job done.

[Doctor Gollum]

Rural postcodes can be measured in hectares which doesn't help when every village and their dog has a London Road...

Urban postcodes are often individual buildings, but certainly no more than one side of a block