Satnav advice needed

ScoobieWRX · Post by **ScoobieWRX** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:30 pm

My apologies for Gerry's hijack of this thread :notworthy:

RobCallow · Post by **RobCallow** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:40 pm

I Have a Garmin Nuvi 350 and have used it here and in France, Spain, Germany and Czech republic and it has never let me down.

So I highly recommend the Garmin :-D

Gerry H · Post by **Gerry H** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:55 pm

Rob, do you have experience of other satnavs like Tomtom to campare the Garmin with? It was my daughter's birthday recently and she's finally decided she'd like a satnav. This thread has been quite usefull in discussing other systems, well most of it has.

lsop · Post by **lsop** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:03 pm

Garmin 360t here

Used it in Europe too!

We have the TomTom's at work! Both are great bits of kit!

Post by **Stuart** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:32 pm

Glad you guys are having fun

I would buy a dedicated TomTom style unit Vectraman. I have both types and being a luddite, much like yourself, I prefer the simpler interface of the TomTom.

Each to their own I guess.

Edited to say that my preference is for the dedicated system over the PDA style. I have no experience of Garmin (beyond one trip) but understand that they are excellent.

RobCallow · Post by **RobCallow** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:32 pm

Gerry H wrote:Rob, do you have experience of other satnavs like Tomtom to campare the Garmin with? It was my daughter's birthday recently and she's finally decided she'd like a satnav. This thread has been quite usefull in discussing other systems, well most of it has.

Never used any other systems I brought the best I could afford at the time (It was nearly

Gerry H · Post by **Gerry H** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:23 pm

Thanks for the reply Rob, my experience of TT and Medion is, both leave room for improvement. Maybe I'll try the Garmin next.