john01473 Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Well here’s hoping for some guidance. Having recently driven for miles down the wrong roads I figure I have to surrender to the annoying chic in a box with "turn right" I wonder if there is one with some attitude - I wore the patience out of one I borrowed and in the end she just shut up and switched herself off. My luck with women. Anyway I am looking for something I can update with downloads - something to take to Europe - mainly France and Spain. So any help as to which one with an idea of cost would be helpful. Any to avoid. Cheers Big John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyjrode Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Hi there, you won't go wrong with a Tom Tom, have had mine for 18 months know and it has been worth ever penny, the Euro model is about £170 if I remember correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outdoor_ian Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 I purchased a Garmin Nuvi for personal use sometime ago now because I prefered the look of the map layouts/graphics etc. Now this works fine and the maps can be updated however not so long after we got some tom toms at work which I have ended up using alot more and find the address search funtion alot more intuative than the garmin and now I think the the tom tom maps are less clutered making them easier to follow on the move. The tom tom maps can be updated also you can buy some discs with different voices on (yoda, darth vada to name but a few) The next one I buy will be a tom tom as I now personally find them easier to use. Hope thats of some use to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreeSheds Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 TomTom is great but computer based software that it syncs with can be rather flakey - at least my three year old version is, and although TT have issued updates, these won't install on my PC, and the TomTom helpdesk are not the best either. the actual machine though, is great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxtherotti Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 i used to have a tom tom but it died on me so i got a garmin nuvi 255w with full euro mapping and as said above the address input is not the best(you have to tell it if your looking for addys in wales for example)and while it works ok i have known it send me some silly ways to places (even different ways to the same place!!) so i will be going back to tom tom when this one packs up rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxtherotti Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I purchased a Garmin Nuvi The tom tom maps can be updated also you can buy some discs with different voices on (yoda, darth vada to name but a few you can get different voices etc and updates from garmin too chap rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocky Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Hi, I use a tomtom go which I bought mainly for europe and the usa, it has done everything I have asked of it. It has two useful features:-sd card slot for adding more maps and a facility for adding lat/long co-ordinates, which is far more accurate than using post codes etc. Regards, rocky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teabag Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 The map software is the important and the best is Navtec used by Navman same software that the British Army use, Forget all the girly stuff, mp3, photos, where an I, voices, thats a Tom Tom. The mapping is the important thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeagent Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 personally i'm a Garmin fan... have old school GPS V and a Nuvi 250W.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco_al Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 i bought one of the cheap ones off ebuyer (was £50 in the summer) which are now around the £38 mark, then installed the latest tom tom on it, including the western europe maps. works a treat, especially as it was nearly a third of the price of the tomtom.....Clickety Click.....worked a treat taking us to Aberdeen & back last summer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john01473 Posted February 5, 2010 Author Share Posted February 5, 2010 i bought one of the cheap ones off ebuyer (was £50 in the summer) which are now around the £38 mark, then installed the latest tom tom on it, including the western europe maps. works a treat, especially as it was nearly a third of the price of the tomtom.....Clickety Click.....worked a treat taking us to Aberdeen & back last summer thanks all - i have gone for a TOMTOM - TomTom ONE Europe V4 Classic - UK, ROI & Europe - original price was £179.00 i got it for £99.99 from Halfords who were the cheapest. many thanks Big John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teabag Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 personally i'm a Garmin fan... have old school GPS V and a Nuvi 250W.. They will be good also as the use Navtec or Navteq software Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameslwt Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Avoid the Navmans....biggest pile of rubbish I have ever used. Twice yesterday it told me to make a turn then 20 seconds later made me go back onto the original road I had been on. About a year ago it wanted me to turn the wrong way up a dual carriageway. Great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teabag Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 It's funny how a sat-nav will make some people do things. How does it do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmagnet Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 i had a tom tom and it kept prompting me to go to tom tom updates and when i plugged it into the computer to update it said that i had the latest version so no update available but it erased all the maps so it wouldnt work i got a refund and bought a garmin much better also if you ask in shops like halfords they get loads of tom toms returned with problems but hardly any garmins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teabag Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 i had a tom tom and it kept prompting me to go to tom tom updates and when i plugged it into the computer to update it said that i had the latest version so no update available but it erased all the maps so it wouldnt work i got a refund and bought a garmin much better also if you ask in shops like halfords they get loads of tom toms returned with problems but hardly any garmins May be because tom tom are a best seller, but if you read the reviews on sat navs you wouldn't buy one they all have pros & cons, even built-in sat navs fitted to the expensive cars have problems as shown on TV Top Gear. Just bit like mobile phones don't read the reviews Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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