Budget Sat Nav Europe

[OldBuoy]

Hi, I'm off to France in 10 days and want a budget nav to use. I will use it afterwards but only occasionally is this a good one?

http://www.halfords.com/sat-nav-audio/sat-nav/car-...

[miniman]

Do you have an iPhone / Android phone? We got on fine with Google Maps last week. Does require 3G but we only paid £2 per day for it on O2.

[OldBuoy]

No, a bit of a luddite me. An old Nokia so no smart phone.

[VR6T Gar]

Have a look on ebay.
I just bought a Tomtom xl with USA and Canada maps for £41 delivered last week ready for our road trip in just over a weeks time. When we get back I will flog it on.

[VR6T Gar]

Have a look on ebay.
I just bought a Tomtom xl with USA and Canada maps for £41 delivered last week ready for our road trip in just over a weeks time. When we get back I will flog it on.

[kambites]

That TomTom looks fairly similar to ours which got us down through France and Italy then across through Greece with no problems (although it kept tryin gto direct us into an army base near Napoli). It struggled rather in Bulgaria, though; it seemed to have very little idea of how big the roads were so took us down some rather dubious gravel tracks. They might have improved the maps since, this was a few years ago.

[OldBuoy]

VR6T Gar said:

Have a look on ebay.
I just bought a Tomtom xl with USA and Canada maps for £41 delivered last week ready for our road trip in just over a weeks time. When we get back I will flog it on.

Thanks, I'm a bit nervous of ebay stuff. Could be stolen or maybe just unreliable.

[Troubleatmill]

OldBuoy said:

Hi, I'm off to France in 10 days and want a budget nav to use. I will use it afterwards but only occasionally is this a good one?

http://www.halfords.com/sat-nav-audio/sat-nav/car-...

Yes. Tomtom is a good brand and is easy to use.

[Willy Nilly]

I bought one of these http://www.halfords.com/sat-nav-audio/clearance/al... for 99 quid in January which was a hell of a discount and now they are 90 quid. My brother bought one as well and they took us to Italy via France, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Switzerland on our bikes. We took maps as well and planned the route but the technology is there and cheap so you might as well use it. Lane assist is very handy.

[sday12]

Cheap is £40 not £100
Got an all singing grps updating traffic and maps garmin for £113

[daemon]

Just got one of these for my son. Great little units.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-Ireland-Western-Eur...

[MonkeyRacing]

I've a Hudl tablet from Tesco (#1 budget tablet according to Which?). I think you can pick these up for £99 new. Then just download the Navigator app which is free and maps for anywhere in the world, also free. The tablet only needs a GPS signal, no roaming charges and you can pick up a car mount and USB charge cable for the ciggie lighter for little more than a tenner on eBay. Just got me to Bratislava and back without a hitch.

The Navigator app does have live traffic but doesn't re-route and all the usual features of a normal satnav...... Speed cams, auto re-routing, displayed speed limits. Plus you have a great little tablet for internet connections, taking pics, films blah blah.

[OldBuoy]

I've ordered a used Garmin Nuvi 1300 from ebay.

Thanks chaps

[sday12]

good choice

[Roo]

There's a couple of them at very low prices on there.

[OldBuoy]

OldBuoy said:

I've ordered a used Garmin Nuvi 1300 from ebay.

Thanks chaps

Had a problem with this one so it's gone back to the seller.

I'm off to Halfords to get a new one, is a cheapo TomTom or cheapo Garmin best?

[OldBuoy]

Wound up with a Garmin Nuvi 42LM (western europe)Halfords had an offer on so only £79.99

http://www.halfords.com/sat-nav-audio/sat-nav/car-...

[stephen300o]

I bought a Garmin Nuvi 52 with detail maps of Europe with free updates for under seventy pounds on amazon.
Nice big screen too.