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Re: sat nav
I have had one for about a year now and it has saved me a lot of time. I now do not get lost so often.
Bill Ellis :scot:
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Both our engineers have them now Deltra and both have had failures on a unit or another, both screamed like stuck pigs until they were replaced. They say that they are absolutely invaluable and save a lot of time messing about with maps etc.
Me, I wouldn’t get anywhere without satnav these days, I just follow the voice in the box now.
K.
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Brilliant saves time fuel and stress, when my first one packed up under guarantee couldn’t wait 10 days bought another one, for me its one of the things in life I can not do without.
Kirk
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theres one thieving scumbag in bolton whos enjoying the company of my tomtom go 900
had it all of thee hours
and of course even though its a sattelite reciever, theres no way of tracin em so its gone forevergot a 300 now and its fab, wouldnt be without it
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Yes I follow the voice in the box A MALE voice I tried the female but I thought it sounded to much like the wife having a go at me!
Bill Ellis :scot:
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Gat a cheap and cheefull Garmin i3 wouldnt be without it had it over a year now Best £99 i’ve ever spent, even out in the sticks its either spot on or within a 100 or so yards.
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Got to be Tom Tom!! we have 3….. no probs, we also have 1 Navman…… takes you all over the place! Our Engineers wouldn’t be without them now, and just think…… if you take away the time it takes to navigate with a map….. thats another job or 2 you could get in 😀 !
CAUTION though…… when you park the van, take the holder out with you……. had a window popped in November (Transit connect £200), glove box opened, satnav and mobile gone… 👿 . Thieves look only for the holders because they know that there is probably a satnav in the glovebox.
Now, all the engineers leave the glovebox open when they lock the van to go into a job….. hopefully wont happen again if they can see an empty glovebox 💡 .
Back to the original question though……… Marvelous items! 😀
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The only problem with sat sav is that if you rely on it totally you know where you are going but you don’t know where you are.
You need to read the map first and and work out a route then let the sat nav do the last couple of miles.
I have one and when I am working an area I know very well it never picks the best route.
eg.tries to send me down nonexistant roads through army firing range in N Yorks,detour through hospitals in York & Darlington,takes me off a major dual carriagway and takes me on a detour back to the same road to re-enter on a difficult right turn,doesn’t tell me the route goes through a ford when it’s been raining for two weeks,takes me into a scrapyard in York and then tries to drive me through a field of sweetcorn.
A useful tool but you can’t beat a good map. 🙂Steve
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Just got some new phones from the very nice people at O2 and ordered XDA orbits with satnav built in, we need new toys and got them for nowt.. 😆
Must be one of the best packages out there. Comes with Copilot live satnav and once installed I checked out all the new roads around here and it had them all in the database, it even picked up the new roundabout outside the new BSH warehouse in Kettering and it has only been operational for a couple of months. It also has TMC codes installed so you can avoid all the motorway hold ups.so far so good but it gets better!!! You install the software on your desktop as well as the PDA and plan your route on the desktop and download the route to the pda. You can also plan your route on the copilot website and have it set up so that you can be tracked live. There is also the option built in of sending you a message via the website, useful if another job comes in??
Far better package with a lot more features than Tomtomhttp://www.alk.eu.com/copilot/pocketpc.asp
JohnRe: sat nav
Bill wrote:Yes I follow the voice in the box A MALE voice I tried the female but I thought it sounded to much like the wife having a go at me!
Bill Ellis :scot:I could imagine once a month she could be difficult, and if you chose to ignore the intructions she will huff and and say, “Oh go on then do it your way, you men always know better”.
Alex
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Perhaps I’m just an old git but I prefer my maps, that is the good old A to Z, ex boy scout/army cadet. I just love looking at maps. After almost 40 years on this area I know it better than most taxi drivers. A sat nav would be a complete waste of time & money for me.
If I am driving to somewhere new, a long distance away then planning the route with the use of a good map is part of the fun. 😀
Don’t get me wrong, I am not a technophobe by any means but map reading and finding your way around is a skill that should be encouraged and kept sharp at all times.
Jim Baden Powell.Re: sat nav
Like the last poster I was always a map man but that changed two years back when I got my first SatNav. SatNavs have had a lot of bad publicty and some are better than others.
You need to use them with common sense and I have found that by having a good sense of direction and a decent SatNav it takes a lot of the stress away from driving and finding your way around. With a speed camera database loaded you can concentrate on driving and it gives you far more time to observe hazards such a mobile speed camera vans and ohter things we need to be aware of.
My days on the road are far less stressful than trying to read maps and when its dark they are a godsend.
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I never really thought I needed one, as I know my area pretty well and certainly would not spend the money on one.
Then my van insurance company offered me a free one to keep my insurance with them, (They got the impression I was looking around for cheaper insuramce 😆 )
Anyway I now have one, although its only a cheap one (Navman PIN570) which apparently is not a great one and I would certainly not be without one any more, I never use map books and it gets me to the door. I am even considering buying one of the latest ones, (a TomTom maybe).
ToniRe: sat nav
I nipped into Waterstones last Sunday week and bought 2 new Philips O/S Map Books (Berks & Hants) as my old ones were printed in 2000. They have a few new roads, closes and cul de sacs added to keep me up to date I guess, so I’m all set for a few years now! 8)
I catch the general drift from you guys that Sat-nav is a resounding hit but chuckle at your reasoning? You work the same area day in day out so it’s puzzling why such a device is of any use? A demented voice saying “at the next roundabout take the 3rd exit….” blasting over your favourite Arctic Monkeys track like some frustrated female riding shotgun?
They must be great gadgets if you are travelling in uncharted territory I do agree, but locally?….come on, admit it….BOYS TOYS…nothing more and a magnet for thieves and vandals too….. 😆
I couldn’t help overhearing a conversation recently in one of my local pubs….. “You use Navman don’t you?”…”Not any more, Tom Tom’s much better” …I thought they were shirt lifters so I drank up and left….!!!!
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