Cheapest sat nav please

Big_Tree

AdrianC wrote: »

Yes, thank you. I did. Did you do more than glance at it? Clearly not, since that price is obviously not referring to the atlas, but to the offer of a "driver ready kit", £69.99 RRP, pictured. Foot pump, tow rope, hi-vis, torch, triangle, jump leads etc...

The atlas itself is usually £1.99...
http://www.theworks.co.uk/p/road-atlas/aa-2014-big-road-atlas-great-britain-and-ireland/9780749574598

That's the problem with sat-nav users, because they wait on instruction like mindless automatons they lose the ability to read and digest.....

Using a satnav means you never learn a route using landmarks and such so in effect you never know how to get anywhere without voice in a box......

I'll stick to a map and some common sense.

matttye

AdrianC wrote: »

Yes, thank you. I did. Did you do more than glance at it? Clearly not, since that price is obviously not referring to the atlas, but to the offer of a "driver ready kit", £69.99 RRP, pictured. Foot pump, tow rope, hi-vis, torch, triangle, jump leads etc...

The atlas itself is usually £1.99...
http://www.theworks.co.uk/p/road-atlas/aa-2014-big-road-atlas-great-britain-and-ireland/9780749574598



I wish I lived in your world, where you never follow a car at night wondering what the heck the driver can see past the thermonuclear glow slap bang in front of their face, so bright it's even getting on your wick.

My bad.

I don't follow cars closely enough to let their sat nav bother me! And the glow from the screen is no worse than the thousands of pairs of headlights you pass on the roads anyway.

BigJockKnew wrote: »

That's the problem with sat-nav users, because they wait on instruction like mindless automatons they lose the ability to read and digest.....

Using a satnav means you never learn a route using landmarks and such so in effect you never know how to get anywhere without voice in a box......

I'll stick to a map and some common sense.

I can usually memorise a route about 3-4 times after using it, so I only use my sat nav until I know how to get there without it.

Need your wits about you with a sat nav anyway because there can be glaring errors. E.g. whenever I go to Birmingham my sat nav forgets to tell me to turn off a road that goes to Nottingham, which would take me through Nottingham rather than around it.

I'd rather someone be driving around with a sat nav instructing them where to go, than be meandering around at a crawl, constantly stopping and starting, trying to figure out where to go.

Big_Tree

matttye wrote: »

My bad.

I don't follow cars closely enough to let their sat nav bother me! And the glow from the screen is no worse than the thousands of pairs of headlights you pass on the roads anyway.



I can usually memorise a route about 3-4 times after using it, so I only use my sat nav until I know how to get there without it.

Need your wits about you with a sat nav anyway because there can be glaring errors. E.g. whenever I go to Birmingham my sat nav forgets to tell me to turn off a road that goes to Nottingham, which would take me through Nottingham rather than around it.

I'd rather someone be driving around with a sat nav instructing them where to go, than be meandering around at a crawl, constantly stopping and starting, trying to figure out where to go.

My brother drove me from Glasgow to Bradford once to pick a car up.........The night before I asked if he'd; 'like me to map the route out so we don't get lost?'

'No, no, I've got my satnav it's brilliant'.

'Are you sure?' I asked.

'Definitely!'

It was only when we were 30 miles north of London that we realised that he'd forgot to turn the volume up........
:rotfl:

AdrianC

BigJockKnew wrote: »

My brother drove me from Glasgow to Bradford once to pick a car up.........The night before I asked if he'd; 'like me to map the route out so we don't get lost?'

'No, no, I've got my satnav it's brilliant'.

'Are you sure?' I asked.

'Definitely!'

It was only when we were 30 miles north of London that we realised that he'd forgot to turn the volume up........
:rotfl:

And you didn't speak up at all?

AdrianC

matttye wrote: »

Need your wits about you with a sat nav anyway because there can be glaring errors.

Surely not! You must do whatever the SatNav tells you to do! It is infallible!

E.g. whenever I go to Birmingham my sat nav forgets to tell me to turn off a road that goes to Nottingham, which would take me through Nottingham rather than around it.

Except, if you've only ever used a SatNav and never a map, you have absolutely no idea whether Nottingham and Birmingham are in the same direction, or what the roads between them do...

matttye

BigJockKnew wrote: »

My brother drove me from Glasgow to Bradford once to pick a car up.........The night before I asked if he'd; 'like me to map the route out so we don't get lost?'

'No, no, I've got my satnav it's brilliant'.

'Are you sure?' I asked.

'Definitely!'

It was only when we were 30 miles north of London that we realised that he'd forgot to turn the volume up........
:rotfl:

Aha brilliant

AdrianC wrote: »

Surely not! You must do whatever the SatNav tells you to do! It is infallible!



Except, if you've only ever used a SatNav and never a map, you have absolutely no idea whether Nottingham and Birmingham are in the same direction, or what the roads between them do...

I am absolutely rubbish at geography, so I look at Google Maps before I go on any new long journey just so I've got a rough idea of where I'm going and what's around it.

You're quite right that if you only ever used a sat nav you wouldn't have a clue.. but the two don't have to be mutually exclusive. Map before the journey, sat nav on the journey, seems great to me.

Big_Tree

AdrianC wrote: »

And you didn't speak up at all?

There were 4 of us in the car and because we were driving down the M6 I thought the Satnav would let us know when it was our exit, it did but we never heard it......My brother was furious and the me and our 2 mates were in hysterics, I still laugh when I think about it today.

AdrianC

BigJockKnew wrote: »

There were 4 of us in the car and because we were driving down the M6 I thought the Satnav would let us know when it was our exit, it did but we never heard it......My brother was furious and the me and our 2 mates were in hysterics, I still laugh when I think about it today.

So that's four people in the car, and not one of you even started to wonder how come you'd reached Lancaster without turning off, or how come Bradford was now south of Manchester instead of north-east, or how come you'd got to Birmingham, or how come you'd joined the M1, or how come you'd passed Northampton and were approaching Milton Keynes, or even how come you were now 350 miles into a 200 mile run?

OK, so the SatNav was on silent - but nobody looked at the screen on it?

But maybe there's an alternative bit of muppetry that'd explain it all... What town's about 30 miles north of London...? Somebody set the destination to Bedford rather than Bradford, didn't they...?

silkyuk9

AdrianC wrote: »

£1.99 for an AA atlas down the supermarket petrol station. Job jobbed.

This is the best reply ive had. I bought one and its great! However I need some advice from you now.

I was using the AA atlas that you suggested I buy, it was a great idea, however I was travelling down the A1 this morning and needed to be off at Blythe. I flicked through the pages of the atlas to see where I needed to be after the turn off. Things were going great until I heard an almighty bang! my Air bag suddenly shot out the the steering wheel and suddenly had shocking pains down my spine. I put the crumpled AA atlas down, which cost me a few pounds from the local petrol station and looked up through a haze of smoke and fire. I couldn't understand it, I am a safe driver and pay attention all the time. However, in front of my was my engine, it was quite hot sat on my lap and could not really move it. My car windscreen was broken and attached to my bonnet was a Ford Focus. How the hell did It get there? That is not really my concern as they must have been drinking of fell asleep at the wheel. But my question was do you have any idea how much a new windscreen will cost to replace on my 307. Also is anyone any good at replacing car engines?

AdrianC

silkyuk9 wrote: »

This is the best reply ive had. I bought one and its great! However I need some advice from you now.

I was using the AA atlas that you suggested I buy, it was a great idea, however I was travelling down the A1 this morning and needed to be off at Blythe. I flicked through the pages of the atlas to see where I needed to be after the turn off.

Just because you don't have to OK your way through several screens of what I always assumed were utterly redundant warnings for anybody with sufficient intelligence to not short-circuit it with drool, doesn't mean those warnings wouldn't still apply... BTW, the atlas will also suffer from drool-related issues. Sorry for not forewarning you. If you send me the atlas in a usable and un-drool-soaked condition, I'll refund your £1.99. Can't say fairer than that, can I?