Navman - Expensive toy or useful aid

Submitted: Saturday, Mar 03, 2007 at 23:43
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got 620 navman a while back just to help navigate through towns as I travelled the country and found it often wrong and frequently asking me to turn where there was no turn. It finally died and to Navman's credit they replaced it with new 630i with latest software and new maps. Well today I tried toprogram in Horsley dve and it told me no road or such named horsley existed no matter how i tried to enter it. My son witnessed the attempts through 2 menu areas and we laughed and took off. funny enough when we got to horsley dve someone woke the navman up and it knew the name of the road we were on and displayed it. we laughed again. programmed it to go to an address in Bradbury. As I was driving (no side streets) it said Turn right, do a U turn and turn left all within 5 seconds. I turned left and said to my son this thing is mad we have to head toward liverpool and it's taking us toward sydney but then it said turn right then turn right and i thought its cooking now its turning me around. trouble was it took me in to a dead end with no 2nd right turn then all of a sudden said No navigatable route route cancelled. Well I'm impessed this thing and it's previous model have told me to turn throughyears old buildings farmers paddocks the list goes on and on many occassions. Interesting enough once we had been to horsley dve and got home we tried to program it again and now it lists about a dozen roads starting with horsley.
Would I buy one again? definately not maybe another brand.
Is this just bad luck, did I get duds or have others had the same experience with these units.
i have gone back to my Magellan with my book of towns and way points and I program that when travelling lets me know what direction my goal is.
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