Come and tell me about your Sat-Nav please

[melanielovescupcakes]

Planning to get a sat nav for my birthday - any recommendations (or otherwise)?

Thank you

We had a TomTom, it was never well and often thought it was in a field.

Garmin on Amazon have reviewed well.

I have a 2 yr old TomTom. So far no problems. I love sat nav .

I have a Garmin - 255 with EU mapping - it's been excellent. The instructions are a bit brief, & you have to eg muck about with initial settings to persuade it to use motorways, but apart from that it's never sent me into a field yet & also dings at you when speed cameras are about.

If you don't need the EU maps then the 205 is the equivalent

It's worth buying a USB cable & a wallet thing to keep it in too.

mine has a really camp voice

We've got a SAony (don't know model - sorry) and it's rubbish. Takes forever to pick up a signal.

Sat-Navs are the work of the Devil! My DH has nearly crashed the car on several occasions fiddling with it. It always tells you to go the wrong way, but in a sexy voice I find it worrying that my DH will not believe me, his lovely intelligent wife holding a map that says the Novotel is just off junction 6, rather he wants to listen to SatNavbitch who says we need to take the E434665 and do a uturn!

We have a Nav Man. It has been fine although it did direct us the wrong way out of our home town when we went on holiday.
It also sent us down this awful private road that was only really wide enough for a bike on one occasion, other than that it has been ok

thanks everyone. was watching ER last night and a couple using sat nav drove into Lake Michigan!

Oh, mine has never directed me into Lake Michigan

We used to have a TomTom which I hated.

We've just come back from France and we used our new Garmin. I thought it was fab. The screen was bigger and it just seemed a lot better to me. DH doesn't buy anything without looking at Which?, so I expect the Garmin has been highly rated.

I have the TomTom Go 540 Live - We have the live subcription feature as well which saved us hours on the way down to Cornwall recently in telling us where the traffic jams were and which way to go instead.

We used our Garmin in France this summer too & DH (who has always insisted on being the sole navigator & was very competitive to begin with ) eventually conceded that she was better than him in many instances - particularly coming on & off interchanges where you needed to change lanes instantly, which happens a lot in France. She always gave us plenty of notice, & with French drivers behind you that's invaluable

Now he considers her a partner...

We've got a tomtom. Dr thinks it's great but I'd rather use a map.

Dr Who, worzel? (boo-boom!)

Oooooo I bloody wish it was dr who !

I've got a Garmin 1300T, widescreen, lovely display, great male voice on there (female british makes your eye twitch... v.irritating!) I think it's great value as the majority of the Garmin software is updatable so you should still be able to use it even if it's discontinued. Bought mine from Halfords but I'm sure there are better offers out there.

Oh and I'm never without my good old Matthew (Matty the Map) had a disaster when the fuse blew on the cigarette lighter and battery died! Ha ha ha it's funny now but at the time driving through Wales countryside with the petrol light on......you can imagine the rest.