Satnav for Mrs O, recommendations please

[Lord Sterling]

^^ Nice, I wanted to try and get a Rover logo to come up whilst starting up the SkatNav, would look good in the Sterling though a bit starnge in the Micra. I aint got a clue how to go about it though, and I cant hook up my SatNav to 'puter as I dont have the wires.

 

I've got a "Keomo" something or other with a missing stylus. I bought it a couple of years ago off my neighbour for about £35 as he was "upgrading". It doesnt have the all-singing all-dancing map updates/speed camera alerts/European maps or whatever (I could probably do with some Euro maps though) but it is however pretty dead easy to use, I can even store videos/music on there, but then again, I've got a radio if I want to listen to music. I've only ever once been taken up a road that was closed off whilst lost out somwehere in the North Shropshire countryside.

 

I only ever really use it to direct to me the exact street in a town/city/area of the country I've never been to, the rest of the time its sits switched off waiting to be used.

[myglaren]

Tomtom gets my vote.

 

I remember not fondly driving around alsorts of places before with scraps of paper, prints from Multimap etc etc. getting stressed trying to find places.

 

I'll stick with the Tomtom and getting where I'm going stress free and when I said I would be there.

 

I'm unbelievably crap at following directions. If someone tells me more than four things I forget the majority of them.

Only once has it worked for me, in Bedford. Got hopelessly lost after taking the wrong road into Bedford (It did say 'Bedford' on the sign)

Asked an Arab guy and his directions were extremely precise and easy to follow.

 

I had to stop at a motorway service area half way between Washington and Bedford as I hadn't a clue where I was going other than south.

Can't remember map details either - should be simple enough to say "I want to be off at J36" and then drive to J36 and check for the next junction or whatever.

Doesn't work like that . Two minutes down the road and it's "Was that J36 or 39 or 63 - damnit!"

 

I borrowed my daughter's TomTom - which shouldn't work in the C5 but does, admirably.

I can't see any directions other than the motorway representation and the arrow but the spoken instructions are reasonable enough - except when she changed it to Yoda. That was a bit interesting.

 

It has taken me to Gaydon, Little Horwood/Drayton Parslow via Thorn, "The Monastary" in Manchester, a church near Cambridge via half a dozen other locations, all hassle free other than instructions to take the sliproad and then the second exit from some non-existent roundabouts on the A1 and a14.

 

Also a tour through the carparks of MK General Hospital on one trip - than back onto the road I left

 

Had it not been for the satnav I think I may still have been trying to find The Monastery now, six months later.

 

I wasn't at all convinced before trying it but if used as a guide rather than blindly following it's directions then they are fine.

 

My eldest daughter - who lives in the next street to me, needed to bring her car to work and swap cars with me.

She had never been there so printed out a Google map that would have sent her on a complete wild goose chase halfway round the county to get four miles - even got the destination out by half a mile.

[maxpower]

use the garmin at work... total shite... when its not freezing or constantly recalculating..its sending me on a magical mystery tour... i started to use my tomtom one.. a bit dated...

 

so i just downloaded route66 to my iphone and its been the dogz bollocks

[M'coli]

use the garmin at work... total shite... when its not freezing or constantly recalculating..its sending me on a magical mystery tour... i started to use my tomtom one.. a bit dated...

 

so i just downloaded route66 to my iphone and its been the dogz bollocks

Except it's on an iPhone...