GPS

[chris123]

Wonderng if anyone here uses the tomtom V3?

I recently bought one, its not as good as i thought it would be and decides to lead me in the totally wrong direction, or the map says turn but the voice doesnt or the distance to turn is still some huge distance even though im at the intersection in question.

It also doesnt recognize some roads.

It has worked well on a few occasions but now i cant totally trust it as i know it can screw up.

What are your guys experiences?

 

[iluszn]

I use my Nokia phone.. seems good. Sometimes it asks to go down streets which are unfinished.. but, they are open on the map, not alot we can do..

NavMan are apparently very good from what i have heard

 

[80ove]

Yes, I have a Navman in my EVO have used it on both trips to the EVO Nats & find it great, it also counts down the distance to turns.
If you gun it between intersections you can get ahead of it & miss the turn, especially if the intersections are close togeather.
All up quite happy with it.

 

[Gav]

I have the tomtom XL - which i think is the same as the V3 just with a
larger screen

I am very happy with mine

Only time I have had problems with it is when I went driving out to the
black spur - it kept thinking i was a couple of hundred metres offroad. I
reckon that was due to bouncing GPS signals. Aside from that time it's
been fine. Very helpful for me when I don't know the roads in an area,
when I do know the roads it doesn't always pick the same roads as I
would but who knows what it's been programmed for. And the final plus
is the speed camera warning, sure it's paid for itself many times over
already :lol:

 

[lefty]

Like gav.

I got the ONE XL for my dad, seems great, no problems so far.

 

[trevmcrev]

Ive had a navman 510 for a while now. Sometimes very helpful, at others wild goose chases.

Sent me over a footbridge once, down lots of oneway rds the wrong way, kooky routes that take you miles outta the way coz it doesnt think a certain rd goes thru when it does.

I always check the overall route it gives me before i just follow it to make sure its a sensible route.

Also loses the plot in country windy rds, i think its more to do with less attention paid to accurate mapping in the outskirts.

I can make a dozen appointments for quotes all over melb in a day and its definately better having one than not, but i wont replace it till i know of one not having these same probs.

I ve heard garmin doing the same too.

 

[WRCVR4]

i have tomtom on my phone, no complaints, might not be the fastest route all the time, but always gets me there, and tells me about speed camera's / red light camera's / n finds Macca's, bp, bunnings etc when i want em

 

[Skuz]

ive got a garmin NUVI as a chrissy present and yer works well with no problems just when i go back through the city it missed a turn by 60 or so meters and lead me onto citylink

skuz