Doing some research on GPS's lately and was given some interesting information from the manager at one of the leading electrical stores.
Getting a GPS with life time maps (in his opinion) is a waste of money.
Reason behind this, is that a GPS is only expected to last around three years. On average. They die.
He did admit that a fair few he had seen returned did not look like they were looked after, and were in continual use.
He gave me some examples on pricing.
One of the new Garmin Nuvi's is $300.00 with life time maps.
The same unit without life time maps is$89.00
He gave other examples, but as i'm only interested in Garmin the price did not stay in the memory cells....
If a GPS is only expected to last this long, whats the point in paying an extra $200.00. Are the roads going to change that much in three years? Four? Five? Sure, large city streets can change, but unless your a courier and neeed the new streets/suburbs for work.
Most of us are travelling away from the cities anyway.
Whats your opinion?
Worth the extra money or not?
BTW. My Garmin is about four years old, and the only time it has trouble is where the new bypass is just north of
Gundagai. Keeps telling me to get back on the road.