To think that if a car comes with built in sat-nav...

[MummySparkle]

It should actually be able to drive on the roads the sat-nav suggests?!?!

We had to reverse it out. DP had to push the side of the car to stop it falling into the ditch and guide me because the wheels were spinning.
He's recorded him coming around the corner to find me 'and on this track we find the missus. Stuck. Fuck sake! ' and has just sent it to his mates.

I followed the in built sat nav in the hire car around Cornwall and into St Ives. We arrived in the dark and the thing had us circling the one way hilly system around and around again with people walking in the middle of the narrow roads moving out of the way for us again and again giving us funny looks like did we not just see you?!

It had me turn down at the docks and it didn't feel right to me but it was dark, I inched forward to see what was coming with my lights and it had tried to send me down a slip into the sea! We nearly cried with relief when we got out of the car at the first car park with spaces still not knowing if we were close to our accommodation.

We found that in St Ives you have to do that anyway, you really had to consider whether your day trip was worth losing your parking space for

You need to use the google maps app. Because it's online and so many people use it, it's really really accurate - and great for calculating traffic time as well.

This^ Although make sure your.phone is plugged in as it munches through battery pretty fast.

I live near a very narrow lane which is often closed due to Tories getting stuck in it. Massive sign at both ends of the lane saying it's not suitable for large vehicles but obviously the drivers/sat navs know better. It was shut for hours the other week as a lorry was so wedged, a crane had to be sent to lift it out.

Ha! Lorries not Tories!! No idea of the political persuasion of the drivers!

google maps is great till you have no reception...which is usually the point at which you are in the middle of nowhere and ermm lost

I read about someone who turned right at a level crossing and went up the bloody railway line because the sat nav told her to!

DH once turned into someone's drive by blindly following the satnav.

I read about someone who turned right at a level crossing and went up the bloody railway line because the sat nav told her to!

During the very early days of TomTom, it advised me to turn off the M25 onto the M4 by making a 90 degree turn on the flyover, driving through the crash barriers, and landing on top of the traffic passing below.

(I didn't follow the advise.)

advice

On one trip with DH's old satnav, it told us to take the 63rd exit off the (four exit) roundabout. We declined its kind offer to make ourselves dizzy.

Mine always heartily objects to the route I take home after coming off the motorway. I'll be pulling into my drive and it will still be insisting I need to go back 5 miles to the motorway junction and DO IT PROPERLY.

google maps is great till you have no reception...which is usually the point at which you are in the middle of nowhere and ermm lost

If you are using the car GPS feature it stores the route, so if you go out if reception and stay on your oute you will be fine.

We get this a lot on our green lanes (devon), some sat navs are a collective learning(tom tom) which means that if you want to cross a city centre at rush hour it will give you a different route to one that it will give you at 3am.

Because a lot of uses the green lanes, our sat navs tell yours to do the same.

Sorry.

I hate to admit it but LBOCS2 in right - Google maps app is way better than my expensive sat nav and does traffic for free...

I go to a particular place a few times a year and use my sat nav to remind me the way. I have to drive over a lake on an unmarked bridge when I get there and the little car icon just spins helplessly and tells me to 'turn around where possible' until I reach dry land. Bless it... I think it's worried it will drown...

CantChoose

I swear I can hear the rising tone of huffiness in my sat navs voice when I ignore the "Turn around when possible" bleating.

I sure she will eventually fold her arms and slump back in her holder saying"Fine! Go your own way. Why bother asking me!?!"

My gps for geocaching sometimes has a wobbly and tries to send you in various directions until it goes "Ah! This way" but is less stroppy about it.
But then I also have a map and a vague idea of where I'm meant to be going when using it.

Another rec for GoogleMaps, especially for assessing London traffic. Had a Garmin that got nicked a few years ago, and despite the insurance actually paying up, never bothered to replace it.

Though it is convinced there's no road through Avon Heath near Bournemouth, and gets upset when unexpected roadworks happen or if it thinks they haven't finished yet, so the NotCitrusNav (tm) is still called for regularly. And as I tell MrNC, I have a much nicer user interface...

We bought my lovely late fil a sat nav for Christmas one year. He was a lovely man, though overly paranoid and as such refused to take the sat nav out in the car in case it got stolen.
Not wanting it to go to waste he'd walk the half a mile into the local village with it in his hand and vary his route back. He'd only lived in the village for forty years so it wasn't like he knew every route anyway.
Some evenings he'd sit in his armchair and plan routes all over the UK just to see where it took him. To the day he died it never went in a car.