Sat Nav System Badly Needed

30 Oct 2005

I am fed up of driving places and getting very very lost.
I drove down to Notts on Thursday, from Teesside, I got on the A19, then A1 and decided to stay on the A1 until I got to the M18 turn off to Notts to get onto the M1.
Slight problem!! I forgot the M18 and carried on the A1 and eventually got to Notts, only to find I didn't know where the hell I was in relation to Dave Notts' house. Ten frantic phone calls and 3 hours later, I get to his house. So you can image the stick I got off Dave for managing to get lost again!!
Take 2! On Friday, I promised my daughter I would take her to Meadowhall, so drives from Notts to Sheffield no problem. I had to nip over to Scunthorpe, again, I got there no problem. Driving from Scunny to get to the M18, I seen a turn off, and thinking it was the right one, I drive off the motorway. 30 minutes later, I realise I am in Grimsby FFS mad

I had to turn aroundand drive back to Scunny, to get back on the same road I took the turn off.
To add insult to inury, they closed the fecking junction I had to turn off (J24, M1) to get back to Notts and had to give Dave a ring to guide me in. Dave was merciless in taking the piss out of me all night, I felt like super glueing his gob shut just to get some peace!
I am the first one to admit my sense of direction is shite and I am soooo fed up with myself!!!
I know what I am going to put on my Santa List!!

30 Oct 2005

:lol: :lol:
Alex, Hi hun
Put down on your xmas list for a "TomTom 300 Sat nav.
You will not get lost with that. Just stick in the post code and away you go. wink

phredd

30 Oct 2005

Well OK Alex, you've admitted that your navigation isn't so good, but how will sat-nav help?...............
You have to listen and follow instructions :grin:
never known a girlie to do this for longer than 30 seconds :confused: bolt

30 Oct 2005

Quote by Him'nHer
Well OK Alex, you've admitted that your navigation isn't so good, but how will sat-nav help?...............
You have to listen and follow instructions :grin:
never known a girlie to do this for longer than 30 seconds :confused:

Have you got a death wish H&H?? :shock: :shock: :shock: lol

:lol: :lol:
You might want to speak to equi-princess about her sat nav Alex wink

:lol:
Shireen
xxx

30 Oct 2005

MY TomTom is fab and I wouldn't be without any more.. it's just a great device once you have mastered the ways of it!
If you want to ask any questions feel free to PM me.
:P

30 Oct 2005

I wouldn't be without mine,,,,,,,,, and if ya had ever driven with naughtynymphos navigating you would know why lol......
by the way check ya pm box alex x x x

30 Oct 2005

Quote by sleazy
I wouldn't be without mine,,,,,,,,, and if ya had ever driven with naughtynymphos navigating you would know why lol......

:shock:
i'm good at reading maps me

30 Oct 2005

well as sat nav is my business i can recommend the Navman IC510 or IC520, both great bits of kit and very slim in design, fit in your pocket easier than a tomtom.......

30 Oct 2005

Quote by steff35
well as sat nav is my business i can recommend the Navman IC510 or IC520, both great bits of kit and very slim in design, fit in your pocket easier than a tomtom.......

Mine's on an iPaq so not TomTom 300 and it fits in my handbag just wonderfully - and is useful for other things too!

30 Oct 2005

Thinking of buying Navman PDA thats got GPS

30 Oct 2005

Just a tip to anyone thinking of buying a sat nav, wont bore anyone, but if your budget allows buy the best you can, stand alone sat navs work better than PDA's, purely because of the processing power required by the software, especially if you are going to run a PDA with tomtom 5 on it.
Navmans are very good, tomtom too, but the cheap PDA/nav systems are very slow to process data quickly.
anyone wanna know more, pm me ....always happy to help

30 Oct 2005

try this alex lol

30 Oct 2005

Quote by steff35
Just a tip to anyone thinking of buying a sat nav, wont bore anyone, but if your budget allows buy the best you can, stand alone sat navs work better than PDA's, purely because of the processing power required by the software, especially if you are going to run a PDA with tomtom 5 on it.
Navmans are very good, tomtom too, but the cheap PDA/nav systems are very slow to process data quickly.
anyone wanna know more, pm me ....always happy to help

Hey!! My PDA was not cheap and it's not slow at all - it's very quick to pick up the satellite signal and replans within seconds when needed.... got TomTom 5 on a memory card too. NOT all PDAs are slow or cheap.
confused

:shock:

30 Oct 2005

Quote by Shireen_Mids
Have you got a death wish H&H?? :shock: :shock: :shock: :lol: :lol:

Well I did have till H slapped me after reading what I posted :shock:
M

30 Oct 2005

Jags..............if you read what i said, i said buy the best you can, i was pointing at Â£99 pda specials from makro and the like, i didnt think i said you have a cheap pda did i?????

30 Oct 2005

So what can I get with Â£200 cause thats all I can afford and all the best ones cost a lot more than that?
May get me to Wigan safely then

:rotflmao:
DD

30 Oct 2005

Quote by naughtynymphos1
I wouldn't be without mine,,,,,,,,, and if ya had ever driven with naughtynymphos navigating you would know why lol......

:shock:
i'm good at reading maps me
Thats not what I heard
NC

31 Oct 2005

I got the ipaq 4150 and tomtom 5 and its bl00dy brill. so I back up Jags on this one !!
There are a few sat nav specialists on ebay (thats where I got mine, and the whole kit and caboodle cost about Â£240 notes)
Nigel

31 Oct 2005

at work all our guys out on the road have them and 99.9% of the time their great but we have had the odd one directed to a building site,tesco car park and even one sent down a one way street in the wrong direction biggrin

31 Oct 2005

Quote by markz
at work all our guys out on the road have them and 99.9% of the time their great but we have had the odd one directed to a building site,tesco car park and even one sent down a one way street in the wrong direction

My tomtom3 took me up the side of a mountain in the rhondda valley up a single track road with a massive drop on one side to get me into a small welsh village - when i got to the top the council had blocked it off with bollards that meant only pedestrians could get through. I had to reverse about 3 miles down this SINGLE TRACK ROAD (did I mention that there was a sheer drop on one side) in the dark. The GPS almost went out of the window at that point !!
But on the whole I would say its 99.9% wicked !!

31 Oct 2005

jesus lol some of us still rely on A-Zs i was at the london mini munch and relied on a A-Z to get me from a friends house back home.
MikeC

31 Oct 2005

Quote by MikeC
jesus lol some of us still rely on A-Zs i was at the london mini munch and relied on a A-Z to get me from a friends house back home.
MikeC

I find it very difficult to read a map AND drive at the same time!! Female failing I suppose???
redface

ops: Sat Nav is safer. Some unexpected routes I have to admit but, for me, that's part of the joy - that and never having to find the way home in the dark! Just click on 'navigate to home' and a route is worked out. Options are for 'fastest, shortest, avoiding motorways' etc etc. Sat Nav is (for me) far better than a map which needs folded just at the road I want to look at it or it's over the page and the pages don't quite match up or the page has been used so often it's torn or missing!
Each to their own. :P :P

31 Oct 2005

I really need one of these sat nav thingies -me -jobbies! possible new job has me covering a wide geographical area and I'm useless with a map! rolleyes

Am sooooooo not technically minded or into gadgets either redface

so, can anyone recommend one I can take out the box, stick on dash, switch on, type in postcode, press go and voila?!
thats about as much as i'm capable of doing, i want instructions in a small, concise, understandable manual written in plain English, and I want the fooker to WORK!! lol

31 Oct 2005

Quote by Darkfire
I really need one of these sat nav thingies -me -jobbies! possible new job has me covering a wide geographical area and I'm useless with a map! Am sooooooo not technically minded or into gadgets either
so, can anyone recommend one I can take out the box, stick on dash, switch on, type in postcode, press go and voila?!
thats about as much as i'm capable of doing, i want instructions in a small, concise, understandable manual written in plain English, and I want the fooker to WORK!!

Get a tomtomgo
brill.
Even a well known person on this site, who was in my car, a while a go, use to argue with it at first, but eventually agreed it was good........... :shock:

31 Oct 2005

I enjoy map reading redface

I hate getting in a car without knowing exactly where we are going so I don't know how I'd feel with a tomtom telling me where to turn dunno

31 Oct 2005

I am fed up of driving places and getting very very lost.
I was dubious about sat nav but I have a PDA and linked up a GPS bluetooth receiver i bought from Ebay to it with some free software and now have one for about Â£60... now converted... it has found me better routes than ones I have used....was in a motorway traffic jam so I asked me to find an alternatiove route not using a motorway and it did it well.... lots of example...best gadget I have had in ages... invaluable to find new places..best routes...not getting lost...

31 Oct 2005

I remember when i used the Tom Tom going through the dartford tunnel it told me to turn right ....................straight into the wall..........................was it trying to tell me something.
I may act silly but not that silly.

31 Oct 2005

Quote by MikeC
jesus lol some of us still rely on A-Zs i was at the london mini munch and relied on a A-Z to get me from a friends house back home.
MikeC

Mike oh Mike - so seventies biggrin

I have the A-Z on my PDA, linked into GPS, so even when walking about London I don't get lost.
I have had SatNav in the car for about 5 years, the latest actually coming as standrad on the car. I would never be without it. The snazzier ones that link into TrafficMaster and will give you real time info on traffic jams are superb. All in all, SatNav has saved me hours either driving about lost or sitting in a queue of traffic not knowing an alternative route.
Technology being what it is, it won't be long before every car comes with Sat Nav, blue tooth enabled etc etc.
Remember the days when air con in a car was only available for the rich? Those days are long gone, so it wont be long, with mass production, that cars are produced as standard with SatNav.

31 Oct 2005

i very rarely have a problem finding my way..
but i do plan beforehand if i'm going somewhere that i dont know, and always have a back up in case of road closures or accidents.
for me these sat nav systems are still a little too pricey, although it did come in handy when i hired a car recently and found myself working in london... now thats an all new ball game.
as a matter of interest, are you able to update it regularly or does it do it automatically ?

31 Oct 2005

Thank you all for your advice, it is much appreciated lol

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All I need now is for someone to buy it for me and I am sorted cool

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Anyone want to sponser a student?
Desperate & Pissed off (in general)
Teesside