Sat Nav - Retro-Renault

**donsrno1** · 14th December 2006, 01:41 AM

Anyone on here have much knowledge about sat nav? My mum is getting my old man a sat nav unit for christmas so I've been asked to find out which is best, looking at ones up to £200.

Looks to be one of:

TomTom One -£185.90
Garmin Nuvi 300 - £189.99
Garmin c510 - £149.99

Anyone have any suggestions from experience as to which is best?

Thanks.

**Neal** · 14th December 2006, 02:13 AM

tomtom one v2

**bidderman1969** · 14th December 2006, 01:29 PM

i use tom tom as well

**Chris H** · 14th December 2006, 01:36 PM

I use the stars and my sextant if I'm REALLY lost

**bidderman1969** · 14th December 2006, 01:47 PM

and that helps you?????????? lol

**Chris H** · 14th December 2006, 01:48 PM

well tbh I'd need to be pretty feckign lost, tom tom, pah womens and gay boys tools.

Sextants can be made easily if needs be. 3 pens and 3 elastic bands, if I'm stuck at sea at least I would know how lost I am! lol

**bidderman1969** · 14th December 2006, 02:05 PM

needed for my work, bloody London can be a bit of a bitch sometimes

**Chris H** · 14th December 2006, 02:06 PM

juts hang out the window with a sextant, you'll get int he paper and get more business from it!

**bidderman1969** · 14th December 2006, 02:14 PM

hhhhhhmmmmm.......

**Chet T16** · 14th December 2006, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris H

well tbh I'd need to be pretty feckign lost, tom tom, pah womens and gay boys tools.

A quote from the ignorant! Sat Nav is one of the greatest technologies out there.

Its not about getting lost, its about getting there easier and faster. My old sat nav didn't have full post code searching but got me exactly where i needed to go in the uk without fail. New ones are the business

**Chris H** · 14th December 2006, 02:36 PM

I can get anywhere in the uk fine without it.

Gone all over the country just fine without it and in many cases without a map. If you knwo the distance and direction of somewhere you can find it easily, tune your inner compass, right now true norths about 9 o'clock to where I'm sitting magnetic norths about 7:30 ish last time I checked. I can sit down anywhere and know where it is, must be a talent or something.

**bidderman1969** · 14th December 2006, 03:36 PM

i know my internal compass, and i know where most things are in the uk, got by without upto when i bought it, however i can give accurate quotes when people ask how much it is from such and such, to such and such

**donsrno1** · 14th December 2006, 04:07 PM

lol, I'll just tell my mum to get my dad a compass then and a few lessons from "the H"

Decided to go for the TomTom One in the end, got it for £180 from woolworths. Means I'll have a new gadget to play with now