Was about to buy a tomtom, now not sure, Garmin time?

[HotJambalaya]

Was just about to pull the trigger on a TomTom Go 6000 after my GO of many years seems to have died, but reading the reviews on Amazon has put me off, I don't know anything about the other makes, so just wondering what people think....

Wanted full postcode entry, and street number entry.
Traffic
Good european maps
Free updates
Good sized screen
Adding my own POI's

Any recommendations? I need to buy pretty quickly!

Edited by HotJambalaya on Tuesday 29th July 21:02

Edited by HotJambalaya on Tuesday 29th July 21:11

[smashy]

I have a Tom Tom 6000 after Garmins. The 5000 is the best size as the graphics arent enlarged on the 6000 just a too big screen.There has been a major update since those amazon reviews ,but you still cant do own POIs,
plus a massive miss at the moment.You cannot hit a button that allows you to miss a roadblock or divert by 1,2,3 etc miles like my old garmin,


The traffic is inbuilt but just seems to tell you there is traffic doesnt seem brilliant at missing it.

I would go garmin if it didnt take you through those crazy hedgrow single lanes ,they seem to love those,

[Wedg1e]

Halfords were listing on their satnav clearance page ex-demo Nuvi 2548LMT-Ds for £100 which I couldn't argue with so bought one
Only Western Europe, not full, but who wants to go to Ukraine anyway - free lifetime map updates and free lifetime 'digital' traffic (the digital version updates faster, apparently).
I struggles to find a tiny blemish on mine, so probably not really ex-demo but factory repaired units at a guess - but at £80 off the usual price, who's bothered about marks? If it dies it goes back under warranty - no problems with it so far.
Can accept planned routes from TYRE or Garmin Basecamp.

[egomeister]

I bought a Garmin nuvi and whilst the mapping and general use is fine, it's terrible at re-routing. The ancient navman that it replaced was far better at recalculating on the fly whereas the Garmin seems to try to force you down the route it calculates initially.

[Qwert1e]

I've had various TomToms and they all seem pretty effective to me.

[Silver993tt]

egomeister said:

I bought a Garmin nuvi and whilst the mapping and general use is fine, it's terrible at re-routing. The ancient navman that it replaced was far better at recalculating on the fly whereas the Garmin seems to try to force you down the route it calculates initially.

My 8 year old Garmin Nuvi 670 re-routes perfectly well. You must have a defective unit or not using it properly.

[waynedear]

After my old TT got hit by the forklift i tried a Garmin, it's ok, totally agree on re-routes, it is the garmin way or nothing.
Then it completely froze, nothing would bring it back so i had to grab a TT xl from the nearest shop.
The garmin came back to life after a few days, just a backup to the TT now.

[HotJambalaya]

Just to update this, bought the tom tom 5000. Very pleased with it, minor annoyance that it takes a minute to load itself up on switchon. Traffic also doesn't seem to do anything, certainly don't think I've been re routed to avoid any, it does however kindly inform me that I'm sitting in traffic, which strangely I know already...

Other then that, very happy with it, certainly an upgrade on the previous one. Pleased I listened to the advice above and bought the 5 inch model, I was buying blind and 6 inches would have been way too big

[IanA2]

I have a very old TT which I use to backup to my TT on iPhone which is very good. Bonus is that the map updates on the iPhone are free.

[smashy]

Until Tom tom s new go range includes being able to avoid NAMED street or divert rond a road by 1/2/3/4/ miles etc block I think its useless ,my 8 year old garmin got me out of trouble so many times my Tom Tom 6000 the newest most expensive cant do that and twice recently ive been causht out ,hopefully its resoved in the next software update,everyone keeps telling them to do it ,re their Forum