Anyone bought one of these cheap satnavs?

[Kentish]

Any good?

Too late really as I just won it on the bay but just wondered if they are up to much?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...

[CraigyMc]

Kentish said:

Any good?

Too late really as I just won it on the bay but just wondered if they are up to much?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...

For your own sanity, get off eBay now. You have a problem.

[Kentish]

CraigyMc said:

For your own sanity, get off eBay now. You have a problem.

I was after one for the van.

This has bluetooth which I need and a damn big screen!

Worth a punt at £55 though!

[CraigyMc]

Kentish said:

CraigyMc said:

For your own sanity, get off eBay now. You have a problem.

I was after one for the van.

This has bluetooth which I need and a damn big screen!

Worth a punt at £55 though!

[Emubiker]

I bought a recon'd Garmin for ~£40 almost a year ago and it has been great. Has loads of features and hasn't put a foot wrong.

[MarJay]

Emubiker said:

I bought a recon'd Garmin for ~£40 almost a year ago and it has been great. Has loads of features and hasn't put a foot wrong.

I bought a garmin for £35 from ebay. its very small and doesn't have a touch screen but otherwise its an excellent bit of kit. I was going to modify it to fit on my motorcycle.

[jsg612]

Go for a decent brand... Personally I wouldn't buy anything other than TomTom... My ex had this Binatone thing given to her for her birthday... It told me to turn right off the M6... Seriously.

Edit: the ... is so over used above, but I kinda like it...

Edited by jsg612 on Thursday 18th August 21:14

[Emubiker]

MarJay said:

I bought a garmin for £35 from ebay. its very small and doesn't have a touch screen but otherwise its an excellent bit of kit. I was going to modify it to fit on my motorcycle.

Mine isn't small and does have touch screen. It also came fully loaded with European maps (the reason I bought it when on my euro trip last year) and will also show all the places of interest - garages, food places, cinema, museums etc and all that. Highly recomended. (Now I sound like I'm trying to sell them lol)

[Chicane-UK]

I got a Garmin Nuvi 200 several years ago from Amazon for £50.. it's been very very useful and reliable! Worth hunting out

[Wacky Racer]

Just bought a 5" Mio....great piece of kit...

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5...

[saaby93]

How do you get the maps into it?

[PoleDriver]

saaby93 said:

How do you get the maps into it?

tear them into very narrow strips then feed them into the side!

HTH

[Steffan]

PoleDriver said:

saaby93 said:

How do you get the maps into it?

tear them into very narrow strips then feed them into the side!

HTH

[Tallbut Buxomly]

?????
http://maps.nokia.com/#|51.6835326|-0.0302809|8|0|...

http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/mobile-ph...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOKIA-5230-MOBILE-PHONE-...


Free worldwide maps.

Why would you buy a nav system which requires paid for updates to its maps.

[saaby93]

PoleDriver said:

tear them into very narrow strips then feed them into the side!
HTH

There's no mention in the listing what maps it takes - does it use free ones such as google maps?

[CraigyMc]

saaby93 said:

PoleDriver said:

tear them into very narrow strips then feed them into the side!
HTH

There's no mention in the listing what maps it takes - does it use free ones such as google maps?

Therein lies the rub.

For all the people having a good chat about Garmin kit - the OP's ebay item is not from garmin. It's a noname chinese thing.

C

[saaby93]

yeah but if they are free such as googlemaps that would be ok

[Noisy]

A friend of mine has a cheap flip out screen DVD player with satnav included from eBay, it looks a bit cheap and nasty but works fine, has lane assist, european maps and took him to Italy and back with no issues.

[PoleDriver]

Google GPS maps, there are plenty available!

[Jadie16]

I have to admit its an old phone nokia 5800 but i used nokia maps as my sat nav and it was the best thing ever it was free and got me everywhere i wanted to go, yet my partner downloaded one on his iphone for about £26 which was aload of rubbish never got us anywhere so frustrating, so shows you dont always need to go and buy these expensive sat navs to get anywhere.