Navman - Expensive toy or useful aid
Submitted: Saturday, Mar 03, 2007 at 23:43
ThreadID:
42898
Views:
2863
Replies:
13
FollowUps:
6
This Thread has been Archived
howesy
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.
Reply By: Members-Neil & Margie-Cairns - Sunday, Mar 04, 2007 at 09:51
Sunday, Mar 04, 2007 at 09:51
Morning all ,,we bought the latest Tom Tom before Christmas , 99.5 % spot on from
Cairns through T/ville down to Proserpine and back to Cannonvale right to the door of the van park ,, went for a drive out to
Collinsville with no problems ,, even out to Tyrconnell
mine , Mt Mulligan , not 100% out there but did get us around and try to show a way we might have to go to get back to a road ,, the main reason people buy these things is that we don't all have the $1250 for the Garmin i wanted ,, however , the Tom Tom has done
well for the past few months ..
Sometimes it is a bit behind if its cloudy ,, sometimes as you go over an overpass and need to turn to get back to that road that went under where you were it says turn where you just can't , but very quick to pick this up and give you the next instruction ..
Remembering these are really only a street directory ,, we have found Tom Tom pretty good so far , will get a proper GPS one day !!
All the best ,, Neil ..
AnswerID:
225185
Reply By: Member - Shane D (QLD) - Sunday, Mar 04, 2007 at 20:59
Sunday, Mar 04, 2007 at 20:59
I have a navman which I bought about a year ago and have found it accurate most(99%) of the time .
One time it did let me down was from
Rainbow beach to Gympie (sealed road)It had the whole of
rainbow beach township but no known route back to Gympie!It had the cooloola way on there(track) and once you where past the
intersection with this track and the road you where right.
As for roads that are shown crossing paddocks,once may have been gazetted roads or easements that are still current.
Yes my navman has directed on to the wrong off ramp or to turn right, across a concrete wall onto a blocked street but I'm still happy with it and would buy another one.
Plan B,I still always carry a street directory but It doesn't talk
Shane
AnswerID:
225292
Follow Up By: Bware (Tweed Valley) - Sunday, Mar 04, 2007 at 22:19
Sunday, Mar 04, 2007 at 22:19
I don't have any navigational aid (including my lovely bride LOL), but I wonder about these 'concrete walls' in the hands of a 'little old lady' etc. Unless the technology is 100% accurate and user friendly it will eventually cause an accident?
FollowupID:
486214
Follow Up By: howesy - Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:23
Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:23
What you mean like the little old lady in USA that sued the maker of a motor
home because it crashed after she put cruise control on and went in back to make a cuppa. True story she won and they have to have a warning now.
Anyway I still set the navman but once it stuffs me around I go straight to the street directory. Definately wouldn't buy another updated model of this brand unless they offered me a months trial.
FollowupID:
486249