Sat nav recommendations

[Captain Jack]

Hi,

My mother wants a new Sat Nav* for her frequent* travels. Can someone recommend a decent, recent (preferably new but will take an older one) navigator that is mom-proof? Easy to use, she doesn't need any fancy mobile connectivity/Yellowtooth malarkey but I guess traffic updates would be a bonus.

Cheers

[Welly]

mom-proof? Easy to use

No.

Next question?

Hey if you want complex I dare you to try to input an address or postcode into a Citroen C4's shat-nav holy f*ck is it complicated

[Captain Jack]

Is it an RT4 system? Probably the same as in my 407 - no touchscreen, no full post-code capability... and likes to send you through town centres and country lanes because it deems those routes "faster".

[Welly]

I don't know but it sounds familiar, inputting postcodes is like a guessing game where you eliminate all other possibilities until you get to yours. It's been the source of some quite interesting discussions* in the car.

When I aimed the car at that Portsmouth I told the twat to take us the 'shortest' route. Using the Newbury bypass it began taking us off there and through the (bypassed) towns it took ages to figure out it was only doing what I'd told it too. Her_Indoors kept seeing the same mini-bus on the bypass; I must've over-taken it 4 times

Worst case was when travelling through Woburn Safari Park; the satnav proudly exclaimed "Bear Left" and when I looked there was just a Lion asleep.

Be-dum....Tschhh

[steve_earwig]

The postcode thing works* really well* in Croatia, where postcodes cover whole areas of the country. Input postcode: f*ck me, there's hundreds. Ok, put the road in: there are 10 and none of them have the right postcode What's that saying? Rubbish in : rubbish out.

When we went to the UK a few years back my bro sent me his Tomtom which really impressed me, I'm a bit of a Luddite when it comes to tech these days but it was a piece of piss to work, here to there, no muss no fuss. When I bought my own I went for a Garmin as they're the only big sat nav co in Croatia and I didn't want warrenty issues or anything. We call it the Random Direction Generator. I don't have anything enabled on it but it just sends us on the occasional detour¸for no readily apparent reason. When we took Charlie to the vet's in Zagreb last week I programmed the address into it (or as close as I could) and it got us to Zagreb ok (I could've done that myself) but then tried to send us in a completely different direction. Nothing to do with shortest route or anything, just wrong. If we hadn't had a fairly good idea where we were going I dread to think where we would've ended up.

[OllieNZ]

I've always liked the garmin sat navs and apparently garmin is good enough for aircraft......
It's worth checking whether it comes with lifetime map updates regardless of what you choose.

[steve_earwig]

apparently garmin is good enough for aircraft.

[Welly]

"This is your Captain speaking"

I'm just......putting.....the.....address....into the...err......hold on.....er....yes that's it......oh hang on.....wait......

[Doggy]

Thing's useless - it keeps telling me to "Pull Up" and there's obviously nowhere to park.

[trem1]

I'm on my third TomTom, this one is the start 25 with lifetime map updates. Does what i need it to and is easy enough to work.

[Captain Jack]

What happened to the other two?

[trem1]

First one was about 6 or seven years old(could have been older) when I replaced it......and I dropped the second one and broke the screen
It still switches on but the touchscreen doesn't function properly. I use it everyday at work from 7am till about 5pm. I let it follow me around warning me of speed cameras etc.
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[Doggy]

I've got a 2012 vintage TomTom Start 60, (6" screen aka FatNav), with this summer's Western Europe map update.
It's pretty good and really easy to use, (& see without reading glasses).

[binnzy]

I have a mobile phone with a 5 1/2 inch screen and google maps works fine

[trufflehunt]

A few years ago, being quite skint, I earned some money from buying and selling sat-navs.

Lots of different makes and systems.

I found the most straightforward to use were the Garmins.