Please help me before I kill someone
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I've visited every sat nav retailer within a 10 mile radius of central Manchester to ask the following question:
"I want to buy a sat nav. The only feature I am interested in is the ability to choose my own convoluted route cross country before I set off, plug it into the machine, and then have the machine talk me through the various turnings / junctions / roundabouts etc while I'm en route...which Sat Nat would you recommend that is reasonably priced and can do that?"
The responses I've had have included, but are not limited to:
"Uh, they all do that"
"Uh, none of them do that"
"You can choose to miss out toll roads"
"Uh, I'm pretty sure that one does that but I don't drive so I don't know"
and the most popular...
"I don't know"
Can any of you guys help me please?
"I want to buy a sat nav. The only feature I am interested in is the ability to choose my own convoluted route cross country before I set off, plug it into the machine, and then have the machine talk me through the various turnings / junctions / roundabouts etc while I'm en route...which Sat Nat would you recommend that is reasonably priced and can do that?"
The responses I've had have included, but are not limited to:
"Uh, they all do that"
"Uh, none of them do that"
"You can choose to miss out toll roads"
"Uh, I'm pretty sure that one does that but I don't drive so I don't know"
and the most popular...
"I don't know"
Can any of you guys help me please?
Sorted - I think...
Bought a Garmin Nuvi 760 yesterday, based on recommendations / clues picked up here, (for which again many thanks...), and spent a happy 30 mins or so plotting a truly tortuous route from Manchester to John o Groats directly into the machine using a combination of addresses, intersections and map browsing to nail the way points - all seems to have gone in OK - althought the real test will come later in the summer when I will do the route for real as part of a long weekend road trip!
Happy driving all.
Bought a Garmin Nuvi 760 yesterday, based on recommendations / clues picked up here, (for which again many thanks...), and spent a happy 30 mins or so plotting a truly tortuous route from Manchester to John o Groats directly into the machine using a combination of addresses, intersections and map browsing to nail the way points - all seems to have gone in OK - althought the real test will come later in the summer when I will do the route for real as part of a long weekend road trip!
Happy driving all.
Have used the 760 a couple times - one for a pleasantly messy work trip from Manchester to a number of locations in and around Nottingham, then a half a dozen more locations in Cheshire - it was great, although based on one day's experience works better on street name and number than it does on post code...
Unexpected bonus - it also picked out for me a previously undiscovered route from one side of the southern peak district to the other - and I thought I'd pretty much found every possible option over the past few years.
Regarding speed cameras - I've actually found it pretty accurate on fixed cameras, but all my previous points have come from mobile ones, so am not intending to subscribe to the database, but will just keep my eyes peeled for yellow boxes and suspiscious looking vans..!
Unexpected bonus - it also picked out for me a previously undiscovered route from one side of the southern peak district to the other - and I thought I'd pretty much found every possible option over the past few years.
Regarding speed cameras - I've actually found it pretty accurate on fixed cameras, but all my previous points have come from mobile ones, so am not intending to subscribe to the database, but will just keep my eyes peeled for yellow boxes and suspiscious looking vans..!
Flook said:
...spent a happy 30 mins or so plotting a truly tortuous route from Manchester to John o Groats directly into the machine using a combination of addresses, intersections and map browsing to nail the way points - all seems to have gone in OK - althought the real test will come later in the summer when I will do the route for real as part of a long weekend road trip!
Just got back from this trip, it was superb - the best driving experience I've ever had. The 760 was great, flawless in fact. It even earned extra brownie points by finding me petrol stations and letting me add them as extra via points on the hoof, which I hadn't realised it could do...Gassing Station | In-Car Electronics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff