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We also use a tomtom sat nav best thing since sliced bread, we go to France for our holidays put in the co-ordinates for a particular aire, set no tolls, no motorways and drive there at our leisure.

John.

Quote: Originally posted by wineciccio on 10/4/2012

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any sat nav all it is, is an atlas, and if in the right hands it will do the job that it was meant to do, the same applies to a PC, its the people using it that will gain the benefits it offers, ie. some people are brilliant at using them some obviously are not,

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I don't wish to start an argument but tbh I resent the inference that I'm somewhat lacking in the brain department when it comes to using a satnav. The one I got was bought for its supposed simplicity and ease of use and I followed the instructions to the letter when setting it up initially, but it had a fault which meant that all the directions were the opposite of what they should have been - left instead of right etc. My now-ex reset it but it was just the same, and had we taken notice of it on one occasion we would have gone the wrong way down the M61 - not a good idea! It couldn't even navigate us home from my mum's house which is less than two miles away!

I sent it back and got a replacement which worked fine (thereby proving that it wasn't my inability to use it and both of us couldn't be wrong) but by then I'd lost confidence in the whole idea of having one, so it was boxed up and I reverted to using a map book. I later sold the satnav to my dil's dad and he was quite happy with it. Horses for courses I suppose, and while I'm still perfectly capable of reading a map book and asking someone for directions if necessary (which is very rare) I will never have another satnav. After all, we all had to use our brains before they were invented!