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It's great to have you here. I'm glad to hear that your new T03 is meeting your expectations overall, but I’m sorry to hear about the issues you’re experiencing with the navigation system and the user manual.

Have you checked if the navigation software is up to date? Tried clearing the cache of the navigation app, if possible? Is there a specific area where you are trying to load the maps, or does the issue occur across different locations?

 

I do not know how to check if the navigation software is up to date. The car is new, we received it about a week ago, we did not get the English User´s Manua we requested and the answer was very laconig "O.K." to our request. We are living in Spain during the winter months and the car is supposed to stay there. The Spanish maps would be interesting, but even the area of Andalucia would do for the starters.

I must believe that the navigation software is working somehow, as it is aware of the local speed limits and they change according to the road and we get in the central screen in the left upper corner sketches from the roundabouts and there is a red line showing what way to go. It draws a curved line on the white screen that is aproximately following the route to destination, but there are no streets of other places drawn on the screen and in the smalleer screen under the steering wheel there is an arrow that bends to the right or left telling us the direction of the next turn. If we ask about the charging stations there is a number of spots on the white screen, numbered 1, 2, 3,... and a list on the left side telling the name and address.

I suppose that the navigation program is working properly, but I am not allowed to load the maps. Some thirty years ago in sea navigators where the chart were provided on on diskets or sticks the whole sea was not on one discet and you had to change the source discet if you was sailing outside of the are of the previous one. I suspect that this is the case. We have contacted the wendor and hes answer was something to the effect: Maybe the streetmaps have not been opened for your car. I am on vacation and can not do anything to this. The car is connected to the Internet with Movistar ans the phone is working with the Bluetooth. If we give the navgarot a destination say street addres "Calle los Alamos" or a place like "IKEA" it will make a rout draw the rout on the whie screen and give directions to the destiny.

I have used, before the time of navigation plotters to the naval use small handheld (telephone size) GPS navigators with a screen size of some 2 by 2 inches and they did not have charts as we have in the naval navigation plotters of today with the screen size of some 8 - 12 inches diagonal, and we have to buy the charts of the area we are sailing in. Even the plotters of aerial navigators used in the general aviation have maps and they are loaded automatically when you fly from say from Finland to Sweden and come south to Spain. So it is difficult for me to understand that this car navigation system in year 2024 does not have street maps. Especially when there are several displays of cars in YouTube videos that display cars and my latest cars have had plotters with street maps.

 

In my case, the car was delivered without navigation. I solved it in the following way:

1.- Connect the car to a wifi network.
2.- Go to the navigation system settings menu. On the map screen, click on the three dots at the bottom left.
3.- Download the online maps for your area.

I attach some photos that I sent to my salesman so that he can learn in the following deliveries.

 

Thank you all for your good suggestions, but after some scratching of my head and some experiments, I found out that the porblem was more bureaucratict than technical. I try to make a summary of the key issues of the process.

First, there was some kind of omitment of the dealer to allow my access to the maps, it was opened aften he returned from his Xmas holidays, but that was not enough for me to get into the process of loading the maps.

The Leapmotor T03 APP was needed for the BINDing of the "intellectual" connection. The APP is available in Google PlayStore, for free. The APP has an restricted distribution according to geographical areas, where Leapmotor T03 is sold.

My first attemps to load the Leapmotor T03 APP failed to a message: Not available in your AREA. I tried to be smart and used an VPN setting my location to be: 1) Spain, 2) Germany and 3) UK, but the resulta was the same: Not available in your AREA.

I tried to be a bit smarter: I had a phone with two SIM cards, one Finnish and one Spanish. So I disabled the Finnish SIM card and was hoping that my request for the APP would now come from Spain. I had bought the car from Sevilla, Spain, so according to my logic, Spain would be a proper geographical area. The response was still the same: Not available in your AREA.

I suspected that there was something in my phone, as it was initialized in Finland, that was smelling nonSpanish, so I took an older Smartphone reser it to the factory settings and tried again, now there was a change in the tone: No Spanish Credit card. The Google PlayStore is not using national borders or even EU economical cooperating areas, according to them the BANKS define our location on the map. I had only Finnish credit cards so I had to get one Spanish, that was no big problem, but a bit unnecessary in my mind.

Now I had a "pure" Spanish phone, Spanish loacation, I was in Benalmadena, Andalucia, Spain and I had a Spanish credit card and now I did not get any more complaints of the AREA, but the result was still unsatisfactory: This APP will not work in your phone.

So what now? A friendly PC wendor and consult, sold me a Chinese smartphone for 105 euros, initialized without any of my interference, so that the phone did not have any smell of the Finnish owner, the Google account had a Spanish credit card and a Spanish addres and believe me or not, the Leapmotor T03 APP was able to read the QR code and opened the way to the coveted maps.

There was lots of maps available, even Finland was on the list, if we for some reason drive this car to Finland. On the way we of course would need maps of France, Germany, perhaps Sweden depending of the route, but now we were happy with the maps of Spain. So let us load the maps of Spain! Time went but nothing happened. This gave me time to think; Spain is actually quite a big area, perhaps there is an option to load a smaller part of Spain and a bit more careful look at the screen told me that there were opitions like the Islands and Andalucia and..so I decided to load the maps of Andalucia, because there is at the moment no plans to go outside Andalucia. It took some time, but the I got the red sign: Apply! and afrer pressing that button, I suddenly could see crooked lines on my previously blank white central screen. I think it took some 20 minutes to load the maps of Andalucia. Looks like the navigator is working as it should.

The Leapmotor T03 has now an own smart phone, and we soon noticed that it has some advantages. After a short test drive we left the car in the parking place and went for coffee and soon we noticed that it is telling us (via the phone) that we had forgotten to lock the doors. Now we have to learn to communicate with the car called Conejito Azul with the telephone.

 

Wow, great research work.

Congratulations !!

 

Thank you. I must share one more interesting feature of our Conejito Azul (Blue Rabbit) It is connected to our personal phones as well, this because we want to use the phone via the "hands free" system of the car and we found once that as the other phone had some novels in sound mode loaded to it, suddenly the Conejito Azul had started to listen to them, of course we could hear it from the audio system, but the initiative to start to listne to the novel was done by the car. We have to find out more about the litteral taste of the car, I wonder too, should I provide some cultural stimulus to the Conejito Azul when it is alone in the garage?