I recently bought a new Fortuner, this time with the built in GPS.

In my old one I was using a dash mounted Garmin nuvi 710 GPS

(Thai version).

Last weekend we went to Kho Chang from Pattaya and I let the

new built in GPS guide me. That dam_n thing took me on dirt

roads and through scary undeveloped areas, before I started

to ignore it and steered towards the highway. It corrected

the route and stayed on the highway until we where 2/3 there,

and than wanted to go through each small village again.

I stopped several times and went through all the settings and

menus on the built in GPS. It had a selection to "allow highways

and tollways", but I could not find something like "prefer

highways" like on the Garmin GPS. Of course I had "allow

highways and tollways" enabled.

I could not find any setting that would prevent it to go of

the highway. Is this just a useless piece of junk GPS, or did

I miss some hidden menu/setting ?

I used my Garmin Nuvi 710 for many years without any problems

at all. This baby is as close to a mind reader in terms of

directions as I can imagine. Map updates are 1000 baht per

year.

Any pointers/ideas ?

Thanks,

rudi

Sounds like the GPS is sending you by the shortest roure. Look for something like fastest route and enable it, also disable shortest route.

I think a mod should combine the two threads

See this duplicate topic: