Which Satnav for a motorhome

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ColinM50

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Sunday 19th March 2017
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The new Eldiss 196 we've ordered doesn't come with a built in Satnavcry whereas our 15 Swift, built on the same platform does have one. And the one in our Swift works really well. Spoke to Peugeot and they say, yes sir, we can fit one for you for c£1.5k. So that ideas out of the window.furious

My other cars both have built in and I've got an old Garmin Nuvi that works fine, used it last month in Spain and it was fine, but it's a bit small. So for the new m/h fancy a new one. But which one?

Quite like the look and features of the Aguri but reports from another forum are les than exciting - seems it's a tablet and you have to use it from dead in front rather than maybe a bit off centre? Dunno, not seen one.

Am impressed with the features it sports, campsites as POI's, can input the size of your M/H to keep you away from narrow roads etc and it's a decent size - 7 inchesrolleyes, Apparantly Garmin are brining out a 7 inch one too but Halfords don't have it in stock yet.

So I wonder if any of you have any other suggestions

We're planning to spend quite a few months travelling round Europe and SWMBO's navigating skills leave something to be desired, so don't want to rely on paper maps.

Any comments welcomed.


ColinM50

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2,631 posts

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Friday 31st March 2017
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Went to the Harrogate M/H show last weekend and bought the Falcon satnav. Nice big 7inch screen and seems to have good functions. Only slight negative having used it on the way home, is that same as the Aguri, being a tablet, there's quite a bit of glare on the screen but I'm sure that can be overcome with the glare shield they supply. Strange though, they have a very comprehensive database of thousands of POI's built in. We selected a restaurant for dinner but there's no phone numbers listed, so then need Internet on the phone to get the number.

Apart from those points, happy with it. Easy and intuitive to use and a reasonable(ish) price (£299)