Which Sat Nav do you recommend?
A relative has just got himself a new job which will involve considerable motorway and urban driving by car to new places, something he has not had an awful lot of experience of, so we are going to treat him to a Sat Nav. to help him find the routes to the various placess he will have to get to. Cost will not be an issue.
Being dinosaurs, we know absolutely nothing about them. Our relative says he would prefer one with a large screen, with good, clear, easy to follow instructions, but having never used one before, he is finding it a bit of a minefield deciding which make is best. So knowing a lot of forum members use them, we would really value your suggestions and advice as to which make and model you would recommend, including the type to avoid and any other information you can give to help us make an informed decision.
Thanks in anticipation.
There's certainly a lot of choice - there are even some that claim to be able to choose routes for caravans (and motorhomes and HGVs) but I've never heard many complaints from caravanners about ordinary ones - many (perhaps all) Tom Tom and Garmin offer map updating services which will keep the purchased unit up-to-date for many years - they generally include locations of fixed speed cameras but few are very good with mobile speed camera locations.
I personally use a Snooper Strabo because it's the best for mobile speed cameras and therefore very important to me - but the map can't be updated so few buy them, it's no issue for me as I've always done my own map reading.
I used tom Tom for years but company has just bought me a garmin, both excellent but I would say the Tom Tom just about has the edge as slightly easier ( in my opinion ) to use, the other thing I liked about the Tom Tom was you could tell it to avoid a particular part of a route, so if I was heading south and I wanted to go via m40 rather than m1 which always seems to be the way the Tom Tom and the garmin want to take me I could on the Tom Tom just tap in to avoid the m1 and it would then pick next best which was always m40, a small thing I know but still makes the Tom Tom score slightly higher, I do around 40k miles anually and think sat nav is wonderful.
……in my opinion this offer is hard to beat at the moment. The manufacturer has a reputation second to none in navigation equipment and you are not likely to have any problems with the retailer
GB West Sussex
That offer is great, having lifetime free map updates is well worth having, my current one is a nuvi, dunno what number but it's def a nuvi and I'm perfectly happy with it.
have had both tom tom and garmin, and more. choice is huge, just one think to add free traffic update, as per the link on the post above, and Live services version traffic update are not entirely the same. the choice is yours. Also tom tom has the advantage [if it is an advantage] of tom tom home,and also it takes the data from the users to work out the best route at different times of the day [historically] and added to up to date traffic info. Which they claim is better, who knows how does one check?
Garmin nuLink! 1695 LMU Sat Nav UK, ROI & Europe
This one is showing on halfords site at £189.99 with £30 back from Garmin .Has anyone used it would like to know if it has a pedestrian mode.The free updates on the range are very good,Navman charge £99 for one update,thats why I,m looking for a replacement
Although not strictly answering the first post, someone out there might be interested in the Nuvi 550. Garmin claim that this piece of kit can be used in the car, on the water and as a hand-held GPS for walking.
The reviews I've read are very positive and I will be researching it further.
We have a TomTomn Classic from 2004 and just keep updating the map every 2 or 3 years. Takes us to the destination okay and easy to use.
Thanks all for your replies. Please keep them coming.
We have a Tom Tom and it has been marvellous never let us down. It is getting a bit old now so no good me telling you the model. If you go to Halfords, Comet or other such outlet they will help you whith advice as Tom Tom has many models at various prices.
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