Message Forums

There are still not many that allow you to select ¨towing¨ or ¨large vehicle¨ so that it does not take you down roads that are unsuitable.

Does anyone know which one does this at a reasonable price ?

Michael

Still not convinced.

Has to be 100% accurate and contain all the geographical and graphic detail of a map at each level of zoom to convince me. 

Oh, and cost the same.

Alan

Have used Nissan's own system - Birdview, and have a Pioneer portable unit for our roadster.

Both have been fine abroad, but would trust built-in systems more than portables which can be lost, stolen or dropped.

For us satnav has been a marriage saver. But I still keep an atlas in the boot.

Have just changed the Nissan for a Vauxhall Signum, and have found the new satnav to be CD-based rather than Nissan's DVD. While it covers Europe it only does main routes - unless I fork out £30 for a CD-ROM for every new country. I'll just have to plonk the old Pioneer on the screen.

We shall be using the satnav to France for the first time but will be taking the map  just in case.

The best solution is to have both.  If youjust take map and get misplaced it can be hard to locate exact position, whereas if you have satnav you always know your exact position.  Also you can load in POI.

Brian

We bought tom tom 910 for canada last year and didn't use the map once ,from toronto airport , all around algonquin park it even put us on a friends drive in niagara.  the best thing with them if you dont know the address or post code u just point on the map where u want to go and press done.another advantage over maps is the POI (points of interest) anytime on your journey u need petrol,auto bank,food,garage,even the best view point for that area  it will take u there and then carry on with the original route. You do need to update them before a trip as we found going to hull it wanted us to turn left going over a bridge. so a little common sense does help.

saying all that the fighting material is still in the back (MAPS) dont go anywhere with out them, the tom tom doesn't look as good as a map spread across the table the night before,

            Justine.

You can always try the "select Alternative Route" or go via a pointer to get the Sat Nav to navigate via your prefered route.

Regards Bob