Best buy SatNav for £100

motorguy

A._Badger wrote: »

Don't assume that a newer one will necessarily be a light year better and, as Rubidium says (above), take a real map with you, too. I recently replaced my ancient Garmin with a current model and the mapping has been significantly wrong twice so far, in just a couple of uses.

Still, wild, exotic Sussex (where I happened to be). Hardly Garmin's fault if somewhere so remote hasn't been fully mapped yet, is it?

That surprises me. Garmin do map updates 2 or 3 times a year.

Did you do a download of the latest maps?

A._Badger

motorguy wrote: »

That surprises me. Garmin do map updates 2 or 3 times a year.

Did you do a download of the latest maps?

Sadly, yes. What's more, one of the mistakes it made was the wrong speed limit on a road that has had the same limit for years (I asked a local). That could have had unfortunate consequences.

I have to say that both on my older Garmin and this one, I haven't been greatly impressed with the standard of mapping.

teddysmum

I'm considering buying a TomTom to use up Tesco vouchers,as this month's will be the last double up.


I was thinking of buying the Go 510, but Tesco put the price up by £32 overnight.


That leaves a choice between a Start50 or Go50 and possibly a Start60 for the larger screen.


I don't have a smart phone,so is there any advantage, for me, in the Go50 over the Start50 ?

Richard53

sacsquacco wrote: »

I d vote a proper sat nav as the best car safety device in the last 40 years and the man who invented them should be given the Victoria Cross.
When I m in an unfamiliar area I can sit back and follow the voice instructions along with the visual directions on my windscreen at eye level in the centre ( not in direct view ). I m in awe of how it directed me through the mess of Central London to a house to pick up an Ebay buy last month without a hitch.Without that I would have been stopping every few hundred yards consulting an A to Z

Totally agree with this. People who say satnavs and the like should be banned because they distract a driver's attention (I have read that on this forum) haven't considered that a stress-free journey in unfamiliar territory with both hands on the wheel and both eyes on the road is a far safer option than an eye on a map on the passenger seat and the other eye looking for street names.

A._Badger wrote: »

Don't assume that a newer one will necessarily be a light year better and, as Rubidium says (above), take a real map with you, too. I recently replaced my ancient Garmin with a current model and the mapping has been significantly wrong twice so far, in just a couple of uses.

That may be just an out-of-date map, to be fair. I have had two Garmins, but sold one and returned the other. I just couldn't get on with their map display and routing method, which seemed illogical on many occasions. I have always returned to a TomTom, which seem the most user-friendly things out there. I am currently experimenting with smartphone apps as my 10-yesr-old TomTom is due for replacement, but none is as good as a dedicated unit.