tell me about satnav

[cheeseandeyeballsarnie]

are they good?are the cheaper ones ok?do they come ready to go?-as in do you have to do technical stuff to them?do they talk?i dont get it!but i dont know where anything is

good for unfamiliar journeys, really dissed them on mn a while back oops

spend the money and get a decent brand - i got a shit 99 quid from argos and its shitter than shit

i had a tom tom ( dh broke it the knobhead) blardy loved it
clear directions, easy to use piece of piss

got a shit one - won't go on motorways -so i have to use a soding map to get close to destination then turn the bloody thing on

seriously you get what you pay for IMO

the sat nav won't go on motorwys i mean- i go on then all the blardy time

so do they talk(yes i really dont get it do they say turn left next etc like on the adverts?dh is dead againgst them but hes been driving for a hundred years.ive always been a passenger and dont know how to get to the simplest places!

I have a TomTom
As one who drives for work to unfamiliar places, I love it dearly, and if someone took it I would sell a kidney to have it back.

yes they talk - and you can choose the voices - you can have a woman or a man and you can pay to get different accents and stuff on some models - seriously!

they say " IN 100 YARDS, TURN LEFT"

then in 98 yards it says "TURN LEFT"

YOU CAN ALSO CONTROL THE way you want it measured - you can have it in meters if you want.

wow!!!!!!!!and it comes all ready to go?do you just put in in the car?does it plug in to anything?

i could get a cornish one.turn left dreckly

They have battery but the life is quite limited. They plug into the cigarette lighter for longer trips.

you can charge it in the house much like a phone or you can permantly plug into the cig lighter in car - it comes with the arm that sticks on your window

lol@dreckly

so you type in a post code?i wondered how they knew where to goclever!

i am actually sat here saying'wow' out loud.im easily impressed,imagine if i actually got one!

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but it would be saying it as you drive?i havent got the hang of looking elsewhere-i cant just about open the window whilst driving now but radio etc stays off as i cant do it at same time as driving

Ive got a tom tom one, its got an irish man who talks to me, i do love the irish accent i couldnt live without it now.

god id love a man telling me where to go in an irish accent!

thankyou.i think my minds made up!now just deciding which one to go for!

but it doesn't make up for common sense
so make sure you don't go down a one way street that got changed last week or something.

you still have to look at the road!

sounds obvious but there are some proper shit drivers out there who end up stood on top of their cars because they drove through a river on the command of the sat nav

really!i know theres roads round here(cornwall) where locals have put up signs on little country roads saying 'ignore satnav,this does not take you to unless you want to go via a cowshed'!

You need to update them aswell - not often but it does need to be done.

Otherwise you will find that new roads and housing estates are not on the system and tom tom will have you driving round a field.

the great thing with a sat nav is if you do take a wrong turn or just palin go the wrong way - then the sat nav adjusts to allow for your stupidity and sets you straight again, even if you dont turn around at the next available opertunity