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Jun 15, 2010 13:23:01 GMT
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well thats the drawback of sat-nav...you have to keep them updated.......i do mine once a month weather it needs it or not!!! It's unlikely that you're getting an actual mapping update here, just the operating system. Unless the thing crashes all the time, I wouldn't bother  The map updates tend to come every 6-12 months and cost £$£$£, Unless you have that new tomtom IQ routes shizzle? |
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Jun 15, 2010 13:28:21 GMT
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;D
Looking for a new job now perhaps?
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1989 Peugeot 205. You know, the one that was parked in a ditch on the campsite at RRG'17... the glass is always full. but the ratio of air to water may vary. |
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Jun 15, 2010 14:34:18 GMT
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I`ve always used the satnav that sits on top of my shoulders... I bloody HATE the technologyzation of the modern world, electrics on, brain off ;D
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Jun 15, 2010 20:10:38 GMT
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A true retro rider would need this:  The electro gyrocator by Honda! |
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Jun 15, 2010 20:26:37 GMT
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in 2005 before I bought my Garmin i3 I used to have a vintage Toshiba Libretto laptop running autoroute and a wired serial GPS receiver  Got pulled by cops and interogated as to whether it did other stuff other than sat nav (like play DVDs presumably, which it didn't) *tsk* then I got a PDA instead of the lappy, but it was pants, then I got an i3 which got stolen so I got a tomtom, which got stolen within 24 hours, so I bought another tomtom, and that goes in my pocket every time I leave the car! |
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Last Edit: Jun 15, 2010 20:27:10 GMT by datman
69 Plymouth Fury Convertible
75 Range Rover 2 door
82 Range Rover 4 door
84 Range Rover 4 door
78 Datsun 120Y 2 door
78 Datsun 120Y Coupe
78 Datsun 620 Pickup
81 Datsun Urvan E23
86 Datsun Vanette van
98 Electric Citroen Berlingo
00 Electric Peugeot Partner
02 Electric Citroen Berlingo
76 Honda C50
04 Berlingo Multispace petrol
07 Land Rover 130
15 Nissan E-NV200
15 Fiat Ducato
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Jun 15, 2010 20:35:05 GMT
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I have a tomtom, it's an old one, big heavy thing, one of the First, never ever updated, I've used it in the car and the lorry, the girlfriend has it now in her lorry. We've never ever had a problem. Maybe it's because we use it right i don't know.
They're are purely as an assistant, and do the job very well, but common sence is paramount. Especially when u're in a 44tonner, sometimes, turning around, is not an option!
If i had a £1 for every near miss i've seen due to satnav driver....
Coming though motorway interchanges and i can only assume the machine must say "keep right" so they do, outside lane at 50mph!
Sometimes mine actually anoys me! I might set it at home so that I'm not doing it when I'm driving, but i don't need it to tell me every inch of the journey from my house to the motorway! I know how to get to the motorway. I usually know what junctions to get off at, what major roads to use and really i only need it from turning off the last major road to the destination. Same for the journey home, i don't need it to tell me every move right to my own front door! pmsl. I don't need it to tell me to "keep right" on the motorway as i pass the M42 junct, or the M5 juct etc. A simple "stay on the M6 til junction X" would do! pmsl
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I mainly use mine for the traffic updates, i have ignored it in the past when it tried to send me what i considered a "daft" route and ended up sitting in a jam, so i tend to run mine zoomed a long way out, if its trying to send me off the route i would normally use i can see if its showing traffic in the way. Otherwise i do the the same as Weble and pretty much just use it for the very end of the journey.
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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Jun 16, 2010 10:37:52 GMT
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Am I strange for prefering maps?? although I was great at orienteering when I was a kid so that might be why!
My 205 doesn't even have a cig lighter so I can't really have one even if I wanted!!
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Last Edit: Jun 16, 2010 10:38:09 GMT by ab5olut
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Jun 16, 2010 10:40:00 GMT
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satnav is rubbish
buy a map
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room. |
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CIH
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Jun 16, 2010 10:43:40 GMT
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I hate following SatNavs too. First time I used one, going south from Manchester to Derby, it tried to put me on the M6 north and quote a 3 hr trip. Been okay since then but shudder to think where I would have ended up if I had blindly followed it.
Stupid thing use to get totally obcessed with the M1. Always wanting to go on the M1...
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Jun 16, 2010 10:58:56 GMT
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Mine seems to send me a different way every time. Navigon thing. I tend to just ignore it and giggle as I see it constantly trying to calculate new routes and confusing itself.
When in the DAF I too don't have a cigarette lighter and the satnav battery only last 1 hour. So I tend to stop at the last services or layby on the major road and set it from their for the last few bits.
Paul
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Seth
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MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
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Jun 16, 2010 11:17:24 GMT
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable. |
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Jun 16, 2010 11:29:45 GMT
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A true retro rider would need this: The electro gyrocator by Honda! That's so cool. Very Jimmy Bond. Where can I get one for the van? 
Darn, seems I'm out of luck  |
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Jun 16, 2010 11:50:53 GMT
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bloody hate sat navs!
if i need to go anywhere i don't know print out a google map and staple it around your arm.
works a treat!
with the added bonus you look like buzz lightyear what more could you want?
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Jun 16, 2010 11:53:29 GMT
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i always use my satnav nothing wrong with them its the fact that most modern drivers are lazy good for nothing morons and are to used to everything being done for them
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RobinJI
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"Driven by the irony that only being shackled to the road could ever I be free"
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Jun 16, 2010 12:25:22 GMT
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Don't think the sounds been turned on on mine for a good year or so. Like other people have said, I tend to just use it for the last part of the journey. I also always zoom out and check that the route looks sensible before setting off.
It's a shame about that rolls, but that's the danger of using a rare car on the roads, no matter how careful you are, everyone else around you isn't necessaries. As has been said, I expect it'll get re-built anyway.
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Jun 16, 2010 13:24:55 GMT
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I fail to see the retro.
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