Worlds worst SatNav? Can it be improved?

[Riverbankannie]

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By the way... how are you? Have the injuries to your face healed now?

Not sure if you are referring to me or to OP ?
Anyway, I had my operation yesterday and it went well and just now got to stick with elevating the hand and then stiches out in 2 weeks.

 

[chenderson1965]

Thanks. Much better than it was. Multicolour bruising is now gone and swelling right down but still a bit sore...

 

[busby]

I love my Garmin,was £80 from Halfords 6 months ago
Its a “car” one and I use it as an aid to my £1.99 AA map
I don't ever use it as a “crutch” that I rely on totally.
IMO too many have forgotten their common sense and spend hundreds on a “motorhome specific” piece if kit , blindly follow it, and blame it for letting them down ?

A good map never let's you down plus a sense of direction.BUSBY.

 

[Southdowners]

Not sure if you are referring to me or to OP ?
Anyway, I had my operation yesterday and it went well and just now got to stick with elevating the hand and then stiches out in 2 weeks.

Sorry Annie. I meant the OP - he came off his bike and mangled his face. I didn’t realise you’d had an operation too. Get well soon!

 

[Vipar]

I am pleased with my 7” Floureon 710 for £31 read the write up on eBay does everything you will need as a MHomer

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[ambulancekidd]

We had the same Kenwood system in our Sprinter. It was generally reliable but, not motorhome specific & upgrading the maps was expensive, as you say the cut off date for updates was tiresome.
I can't give recommendations on a newer system but, I can tell you that these units are still very popular & I personally would have another one tomorrow. That said they fetch decent money on eBay & you'd probably get £200+ so that's got to be a good part of buying a newer system?

 

[WillH]

Goodness, Satnav has only been available in recent years, I got my first 15 years ago. How did we manage before? We used maps, planned our journeys, and, surprisingly, looked at roadsigns! Satnav is only an aid, not a be all and end all solution.

 

[Rapido925M]

A good map never let's you down plus a sense of direction.BUSBY.

Unless it's out of date (and it probably takes 6months between planning and printing), the navigator doesn't know which way up to hold it (or can't understand it anyway), you're in a busy town with multiple junctions and possibly diversions or you're on your own.

Gordon

 

[busby]

Unless it's out of date (and it probably takes 6months between planning and printing), the navigator doesn't know which way up to hold it (or can't understand it anyway), you're in a busy town with multiple junctions and possibly diversions or you're on your own.

Gordon

Believe it or nor back in the olden days all us old truckers navigated using paper maps,A 2 Zs and asking a policeman.??BUSBY.

 

[tonyidle]

I would have thought that once off main roads, all satnavs will ignore dimensions in order to get you to chosen campsite / aire/ town parking. Here where you need experience and gut feeling. If it looks wrong don’t go down it !

As far as I can tell that's all any of them do. Input dimensions & it ignores anything other than Motorways or A roads until it's forced to use them near your destination. I've stopped setting anything other than a car otherwise it takes us miles off-route to avoid a perfectly good B road. (660 LMT & 8M motorhome + trailer)

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[POH]

Busby, when was the last time you saw a plod walking down the road , barely see them in the panda cars these days, we have a trucknav only sent us wrong once , sometimes it freezes but you just switch it off for awhile then it resets.

 

[Scotch mist]

Goodness, Satnav has only been available in recent years, I got my first 15 years ago. How did we manage before? We used maps, planned our journeys, and, surprisingly, looked at roadsigns! Satnav is only an aid, not a be all and end all solution.

Philistine ?

 

[SpeedyDux]

Updating the maps? My 760 LMT-D Garmin will be updated at least annually as long as the lifetime free updates promise holds good. The older Garmin Nuvi from 2007 kept as a backup is on its original maps because the updates seemed rather costly so I didn't bother. It's good enough as is.

Just because the newly constructed foreign road you are driving on isn't shown on the Satnag doesn't stop you driving on it. Done this many times. It doesn't take long until you get back on tarmac that exists on the old maps. Meanwhile a plain green screen is no hardship. Just keep looking at road signs. You aren't actually lost at all. It's like the old days.

 

[stcyr]

We have a satnav - a Garmin. It is only ever used for two things: 1) To find an address on rare visits to the UK, and 2) To show speed in mph on said rare visits to the UK. As these rare visits have become non-existant visits we'll probably flog it - it has no purpose here.