tom tom update maps

pennymakespounds

is there a cheaper one that is shown when i use tomtom Home to update .. it talks about 4 updates in a year for about £60
?

thanks

Notmyrealname

Legally you can only get updates from them.

photome

Notmyrealname wrote: »

Legally you can only get updates from them.

what law is that.

having said that I dont know where to get any cheaper.

maybe just buy a new updated sd card each year , ebay maybe

1jim

If you don't update straight away they often email offering you the year updates for half price

cajef

TomTom occasionally do offers, I got one six months ago, update to latest map and twelve months updates with an extra six months free so eighteen months altogether for £24.75, just got to keep checking their site.

Notmyrealname

photome wrote: »

what law is that.

having said that I dont know where to get any cheaper.

maybe just buy a new updated sd card each year , ebay maybe

The law of copyright and that they only sell updates directly, not through third parties.

Ones from Ebay are most likely to be pirated ones.

withabix

You CAN buy Live subscription from other suppliers and some map update codes (you buy a scratchcard), but they are of course all provided by TomTom.

Tom Tom Home prices are usually best and there are regular offers on there.

The thing is, do you REALLY need a map update? Not many new roads or changes to one-way systems etc at the moment.

Notmyrealname

withabix wrote: »

The thing is, do you REALLY need a map update? Not many new roads or changes to one-way systems etc at the moment.

THIS. And not only that, the map updates still lag behind changes on local roads by 12 months or more.

I've bought an update for mine this year only because I bought it over 3 years ago and there's been a lot of changes to major routes since then.

Dollardog

I bought my Tom Tom in 2006 and have never updated the maps and I do a lot of mileage in places I don't know well.
Sometimes, yes, if its a new major road, the Tom Tom shows me driving across a field lol, but it soon gets back to somewhere it knows and if, when it gets distracted you read the road signs, in conjunction to where its telling you its headed for, its not hard to stay on the correct road.
Smaller roads don't generally change much.
I keep telling myself that one day I'll update it and I nearly did a month or so ago when Tom Tom Home had an offer for a year's updates for £19, but there's always something I'd sooner do with the money and as its not that big a problem, it can always wait for another day.