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koiboy

I have £130 to spend on a sat nav which one should i buy tomtom or garmin?

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koiboy wrote: »

I have £130 to spend on a sat nav which one should i buy tomtom or garmin?

Always went for tomtom myself

Euphoria1z

tomtom...coz I have one. simple and straight forward.

Gloomendoom

Garmin. Ours has guided us around three continents and has never let us down.

Well, not seriously.

VSynth

TomTom, had mine for 10 years and it still ain't broke despite being left in the car all the time.

forgotmyname

Tomtom for features Garmin for better maps. Thats how it used to be.

They all have their little flaws, Tomtom used to say take the 2nd exit as i passed junction 10 on the M6. 2nd exit? Im in the 3rd lane doing 70mph and going to Stoke. Why would i enter or exit anywhere?

Garmin used to take me off the A53 down a lane then turn right and bring me back out on the road i had just left but a few hundred yards further up.

No idea why?

boatman

The most recent ones by Garmin are the ones ending in 8(e.g. 2548), Tomtom's latest are the 400, 600 and 6000.

http://www.satnav-discounts.co.uk/garmin/nuvi-2500-lmt.htm

InsideInsurance

It is more down to personal taste than anything. Have had TomTom for many years and now have a Mercedes with whosever system that is built in plus have used a friends ultra budget one.

Personally I liked TomTom the most. It makes occasional mistakes such as on a few roundabouts it mistakes an exit with separate on and off junctions as two separate exits rather than one and at one point around Stoke it tells you to get off the dual carriage way and then immediately back on it but I preferred its style of maps and the timing of its instructions. With the Mercedes system it sometimes doesnt tell you where to go until you are within a few meters of the roundabout and then tells you to cross 3 lanes of london traffic to get to the right lane.

iolanthe07

I have both, and they're both OK. My Garmain has a larger screen, so I tend to use it more than the TomTom. On the other hand the TomTom has a really sexy female Irish accent that brightens up any journey.

wba31

have a smartphone? save money and get apps?

i have the tomtom app for iphone, £50 and will work as long as i have a working iphone...
Co-pilot is free and comes with rave reviews. google maps and apple maps have navigation tools. Andorid phones have nav in google maps and navigation maps available too

DigForVictory

I could get a free-maps-for-life UK tomtom at the supermarket and that seemed like a nice straightforward pick. I considered using the smartphone but the neverending drain on the GPS seemed like a good way to wear out an expensive bit of kit & I'd rather have a seperate tool for the job.

So I'm a TomTom user. And months later, so are my mum & my sister - it is that straightforward once you get used to being bossed by a box on the dash!

A mate got the EU one & pays for map updates, but that suits him.