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10th August 2011, 00:00 | #1 |
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i am thinking of treating myself to a sat nav my first which would you recommend or would you suggest is good to have, price range is £200 or which are the best you have found you have owned and still own cheers Arctic.
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10th August 2011, 00:06 | #2 |
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I've moved this into the the navigation forum, I'm sure some of our satnav experts will be along shortly.
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The garmin nuvi widescreens are very nice and very easy to use.
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10th August 2011, 06:18 | #4 |
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Hi Steve. SWMBO kindly bought me a TomTom about 4 years ago and that's still going strong. Good infrastructure to back it up. And as James says. Garmin is very good, with their pro stuff used in the aviation word too.
But to be fair now that my phones have google maps and various wayfinders on I tend to use those along with the Rover satnav. Having the TomTom as a back up. Regards. Steve.
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If you are looking for a stand alone sat nav I have been a garmin customer for 9 years for personal and work. somthing like the 1690 which has the Nulink connected services, after the first year this will require a £40 per year subscription that gives you speed cameras, live traffic, google local search (very useful.) and other stuff like weather ect.
Garmin also do a service called Nu maps Life time, officaly this is £75 ish but I got it off amazon for £39.99 and will give you map updates for the life of your device. I bought a 1690 off the bay of e for £130 in march for work and used it straight away on a drive to Palma, Majorca from london it was well worth the money and when I got to Palma and discovered the address I had been given was wrong I was able to use the google facilaty to locate where i needed to be. Never been a tom tom fan, the products are good but I have only had to deal with there customer services once and the experience put me off completly. Richard |
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i have had a tomtom510 from new never had any probs at all apart from my own fault.driving up east coast filey to scarborough and it got a bit confused as they had done a new bypass last year and i had not updated my maps dohhhh.apart from that found it spot on can not say about customer relations never had to use them.
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Hi
Thank you for your reply James/Steve/Richard. as i am new to this sat nav game do all need subscription each year the reason i was thinking of getting a sat nav is that at the moment halfords have some deals on,such as these http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...atalogId=10151 http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...k&iozone=PDPz1 http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...k&iozone=PDPz1 and last but not least this one is this one you have Richard http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...k&iozone=PDPz1 there are more 2340/2390/3760 does the higher the nimber the better it is or more programes as i say i am a complete novice in these. Arctcic
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Hi Steve. Yes I think they all can do with a subscription to obtain the latest maps. Then it's optional extras like spee camera alerts and traffic data so you can circumvent obsticals etc. TomTon is the same as the Garmin I would think as most likely all makes do similar packages.
So long as you stick with one of the bigger well known brands you won't go wrong. I'd get to Halfords and play with a few as the interface while driving....I know we don't, do we!! is important. I don't know about the others but the TomTom let's you change the voices and the colours too. So at night I have a nice black/orange map Regards. Steve.
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THE FIRST ONE YOU HAVE LINKED THE GARMI NUVI SAYS free updates for life of product. sounds a good deal for the price do not know what they are like but i am sure somebody on the forum will.
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The Garmin 1440T currently retails for £149 (but is cheaper elsewhere, such as Amazon) and is brilliant:
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