What is the best Sat Nav to use? Trip from UK to Spain?
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I'm looking at driving down the UK, through France and into Spain next summer but I have absolutely no sense of direction so would need a portable Sat Nav system. I don't really know much about the portable ones as my daily driver has one fitted, is TomTom the one to go for or are the other one which are better?
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Whatever you take, just make sure its bang up-to-date as the French and Spanish governments are rather more progressive than ours when it comes to building new roads. I just did a long trip across spain with a built-in system with two-year old maps and it got confused a lot of the time! The Spanish roads were superb though and I did nearly 2000 miles without paying a single toll.
theboss said:
Whatever you take, just make sure its bang up-to-date as the French and Spanish governments are rather more progressive than ours when it comes to building new roads. I just did a long trip across spain with a built-in system with two-year old maps and it got confused a lot of the time! The Spanish roads were superb though and I did nearly 2000 miles without paying a single toll.
Agreed. Make sure you have the latest maps - even with them mine thought I was in the middle of a field for about 10 miles due to a new motorway layout just outside Madrid. Sorted itself out pretty quickly though.I did this last year using my Garmin Nuvi and it tried to take me through Belgium. Not that much of a problem in itself, except that I hadn't loaded the maps for Belgium into it, so it directed me faultlessly to the French/Belgium border, the roads on the screen disappeared and I was advised "Where possible, make a U-turn." 
To say I was livid is an understatement, my girlfriend had to restrain me from throwing it out of the window. f
kING USELESS PIECE OF wkING ARSE st bd PISS!!!!! 
To say I was livid is an understatement, my girlfriend had to restrain me from throwing it out of the window. f
kING USELESS PIECE OF wkING ARSE st bd PISS!!!!! Distant said:
I did this last year using my Garmin Nuvi and it tried to take me through Belgium. Not that much of a problem in itself, except that I hadn't loaded the maps for Belgium into it, so it directed me faultlessly to the French/Belgium border, the roads on the screen disappeared and I was advised "Where possible, make a U-turn."
To say I was livid is an understatement, my girlfriend had to restrain me from throwing it out of the window. fkING USELESS PIECE OF wkING ARSE st bd PISS!!!!!
Not 'user error' then To say I was livid is an understatement, my girlfriend had to restrain me from throwing it out of the window. f
kING USELESS PIECE OF wkING ARSE st bd PISS!!!!! 
I drove from Guildford to my place (then) in Santiago de Compostela during summer 2007.
I used my Snooper Strabo (still have it and use it but want a new one now). The main thing is to use googlemaps first, and pick a place that avoids Paris at all costs, get the sat nav to go that way, then re-route once there !
It's like some gravitational pull, all sat navs try to take you there.
I only had one balls up, and that was due to new road exits immediately after each other.
Otherwise, it was a fantastic road trip, and especially as soon as you hit Spain.
I used my Snooper Strabo (still have it and use it but want a new one now). The main thing is to use googlemaps first, and pick a place that avoids Paris at all costs, get the sat nav to go that way, then re-route once there !
It's like some gravitational pull, all sat navs try to take you there.
I only had one balls up, and that was due to new road exits immediately after each other.
Otherwise, it was a fantastic road trip, and especially as soon as you hit Spain.
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