metal mickey Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Must be transportable between cars inc 7-preferably compatible with autocom,give good detail and easy to use.Any suggestions 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Howe Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Ask Julian... he is your man! Julian Thompson E-mail Address(es): sales@thompsonsltd.co.uk JH Deliveries by Saffron, the yellow 230bhp Sausage delivery machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CageyH Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Look at a pda based system. Easily transferrable, especially if the 7 has a windscreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian B Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Garmin Quest II is all of those, and waterproof, but I haven't been able to get Julian to confirm a price on them yet! ☹️ Ian - MI 5EVN - Slightly Vider SVelte model 😬 now repainted to match the Autocom headsets 😳 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Area Representative Golf Juliet Tango Posted March 3, 2006 Area Representative Share Posted March 3, 2006 IanB: same happened to me. I don't think Julian has these as standard lines, which is why I ended up with a Mio 168 pda and TomTom. But he is the house expert. Good News, in the 12th month I still got it repaired under waranty. Bad news, the combined data/power connector was broken. Other info: TomTom is ok, lots of people rate it but it doesn't do a great deal of what I would have specified / expect in this sort of software. If buying from new I would probably get something else next time. If you just want "get me there, don't care how" it is fab and does the job well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Support Team Shaun_E Posted March 3, 2006 Support Team Share Posted March 3, 2006 I don't like the TomTom unit as it is too big to fit in your pocket when you remove it from the car. I have a NavMan iCN510 which is IMHO as good as the original TomTom. The problem is that the Navman only does partial postcodes and that is extremely annoying as I often travel to business addresses that don't have a street name or number (e.g. on business parks). I recommend you find one that uses complete postcodes and is a comfortable size to fit in your pocket. The all in one units are supposedly more reliable than PDA based solutions - I have read that if you use other applications on the PDA then conflicts and crashes can occur. All of the all in one units are easily transferred from car to car. My number one recommendation is to go to Pocket GPS World and read everything there. Yellow SL #32 Edited by - Shaun_E on 3 Mar 2006 13:30:10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Howe Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I think you will find the Garmin Quest is on the way out and the Nuvi 300 is the new kid on the block - well that what I think Julian told me the other week. JH Deliveries by Saffron, the yellow 230bhp Sausage delivery machine Edited by - John Howe on 3 Mar 2006 13:37:43 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithj41 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Where you off to Mike? You know the way to landow 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal mickey Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 Jim, just fed up of looking places up on streetmap. Went to London at weekend and it was a right pain with an A-Z when I could have listened to a satnav.Time to move on ❗ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Clayson Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I use a PDA and ran CoPilot v6 for a while until my PDA broke and I bought a HP6510 PDA/phone. That hada smaller screen and so I couldn't use CoPilot so I went for TomTom. I find TomTom a bit slow since everything is calculated as you drive, so loading up the latest camera positions, etc is very easy. Unfortunately it does have the habit every now and again of being 20 yards behind where the car actually is which is a pain especially at complex intersections. I would upgrade to the new version of CoPilot but it doesn't support traffic information at the moment and I find that very useful on TomTom. When it does I will probably move back to CoPilot... Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Howe Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Mickey, my daughter aged 18 (this was 15 months ago) had to deliver a Christmas turkey from Sussex to Twickenham. She had never used a Sat Nav before (it was a Garmin Quest). It took her to the street and the number, she then punched in home and it brought her back again. Magic, as far as I am concerned... JH Deliveries by Saffron, the yellow 230bhp Sausage delivery machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Perry Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 On the Chitchat thread Julian Thompson has just posted up a good price on a Satnav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Day Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Look at a pda based system. Easily transferrable, especially if the 7 has a windscreen. Have a look herefor brackets which'll hold your sat nav/PDA system on the bottom rail of the dash. Can then be easily used in a 7 with aeros. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Day Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 It took her to the street and the number, she then punched in home and it brought her back again. Never, ever give offspring the return address Only joking 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I am now 'happy' with my Road Angel Navigator. There's still a little clunkiness to some of the menus, but my replacement unit has been reliable (first one was from the bleeding-edge of production and was faulty). The only major PITA for me is that there isn't an audio-out - so I will be modifying the cradle for use in the 7. Project Scope-Creep is live... Alcester Racing 7's Equipe - 🙆🏻™ Alcester-Racing-Sevens.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal mickey Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 Thanks all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grubbster Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I went for the BlueMedia 6300 at £299, needed one in a hurry so didn't shop around. I must say I am very pleased with it (although I have little to compare it with!), dead easy to use, also contains the various traffic camera locations and gives warnings. Slim so easy to carry in the pocket, decent size screen, comes with car and bike fitting kits and can even be used while walking in 'pedestrian mode'. I'm sure some of the more expensive ones are better, but to be honest I can't see the need for spending more. I know it is questionable whether anyone really needs such technology, but on a holiday last summer I did about 2000 miles, visited lots of places between the South coast and Scottish Highlands without once needing to look at a map or road sign for directions, just input the destianation ond go. Brilliant. No stress whatsoever - had complete faith in 'doing what I was told' (maybe it is because it is a womans voice and therefore instinct to not question anything ). Easy to find supplers using Google Roadsport build photo's here Le Mans 2004 photo's here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal mickey Posted March 4, 2006 Author Share Posted March 4, 2006 ahh, true peticoat goverment 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Clayson Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 One other thing. Check out the map coverage. My version of TomTom uses the TeleAtlas mapping (I believe) which covers 90-odd% of the country which sounds okay until you discover that certain parts of Middlesbrough and Newcastle seeming don't have any roads in them. Now making parts of Middlesbrough disappear may not be a bad thing, but Newcastle's a fairly large city in my book... CoPilot v5 uses NavTech mapping which ckaims 100% coverage of the UK. I presume v6 uses the same source, but haven't been able to check this out... Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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