The base eight-speaker audio system in the Explorer produces average sound quality. A nice feature of this stereo is its ability to show album art for devices plugged into the USB ports and channel icons for satellite radio stations.
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Other audio sources included Sirius satellite radio, Bluetooth streaming audio, and HD radio. This is all fine and good if the navigation system knows the correct location of the car. The latter two integrate with the navigation system, letting you, for instance, make a gas station in the list of fuel prices the car's destination.
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There is a weather report, sports scores, gas prices at nearby stations, and movie times. Through Sirius Travel Link, the Explorer brings in a lot of useful external data.
That performance is exceedingly subpar, and does not measure up to Ford's previous, hard-drive-based navigation system. Even after it regained its satellite signal, it took an unreasonably long time, measured in tens of minutes, to regain its position on the map. While driving in a lightly wooded area, the system lost its GPS fix, showing the vehicle off in random areas of the map. This flash-drive-based system offers some very good features, such as traffic and 3D displays, but it is more prone to losing track of the vehicle than others. The nav system lost its GPS signal in lightly wooded areas, and took a long time to get it back.Īnother major problem with the Explorer is the navigation system. However, Ford could also use a faster CPU in the system, as some of the slow response seems to do with processing time. A resistive touch screen has the advantage that it can be operated by a person wearing gloves, but it needs a stronger touch than the capacitive style. Part of the problem seems to be that Ford used a resistive touch screen instead of the capacitive style of touch screen commonly used on cell phones. Touch the tab for navigation, and the response is less than instantaneous, such that you might be finding yourself touching it again, thinking it didn't work the first time. Divided into four main areas, audio, navigation, phone, and climate, this touch screen is too slow responding to input. The central touch screen is where the problems begin. These displays work very well and provide useful information close to the driver's line of sight. Both are configurable with D pads on the steering wheel spokes, letting the driver, for instance, check fuel economy on the left and route guidance on the right. In the instrument cluster, the LCD to the left of the speedometer shows vehicle data, while the one on the right shows infotainment.
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