SATNAV

[cant-weld-wood]

hello byron
i drive up in london every weekend driving limos and one of them being 32ft in length. having used a garmen and a navman i have found the
tom tom to be the best and the easyest to use and most direct route
and driving round london in a 32ft long limo that dont go round corners to well its the best.
if you want a good sat nav buy the tomtom

 

[keithhickson]

Does anyone know a good site where you can get different voices as previously mentioned?

Instead of Ozzy, I was hoping their would be a Samual L Jackson one, or even better; A Mr T - 'Turn left at the junction sucka!!'

I would go anywhere Joanna Lumley told me to!

:lol:
I have John Cleese as the voice very funny but he uses the strange turn of phrase "beaver left" which we haven't quite worked out, nor can TomTom assist? Oh and instead of a U turn he asks you to "Direct your vehicle in the opposite direction to which you were directing it originally"
All good for a laugh but even with Nav6 the latest upgrade there are still roundabouts that have been in place for a while which it doesn't find. All in all though a lot safer than driving with a map on the steering wheel.

 

[Paulg]

I have a TomTom One V2 and it is fab. Just done over 2000 miles on holiday in Canada with it and it was spot on.

To avoid having it pinched, I have used a mobile phone holder called TheClip. It has a small plastic holder that mounts onto an air vent and a sticky bit that fits on the back of the unit. A lot easier to use then the sucker on the windscreen and no marks.

Also, dont buy the TomTom cases at £20+. I got a Lowepro compact camera case for a fiver that fits it perfectly.

 

[Taffy Turner]

I have John Cleese as the voice very funny but he uses the strange turn of phrase "beaver left" which we haven't quite worked out, nor can TomTom assist?

The term beaver left is used in conjunction with the phrase bear right - as in "in 100 yards bear right - beaver left"

This is a fairly strained attempt at humour - as in "there is a bear on the right and a beaver on the left".

Hardly likely to cause you to lose control of the vehicle due to uncontrolled fits of laughter I know!!! :roll: :roll: :roll:

Cheers

Taffy

 

[keithhickson]

:shock:

And from Mr John Clean Cleese as well :lol:

 

[woodbloke]

Janie behaved fantastically this year and took us all the way to the campsite (road) in the different places that we visited in Switzerland. I programmed it not use the French toll motorways, excellent tho' they are, but a trifling pricy :shock: and changed the settings at Colmar (just outside Switzerland) so that we could use their equally excellent motorways (bought a vignette for £17 which is how they allow drivers to use the motorways). The downside of this arrangement is that you are forced to use the appalling four lane cart track that the French and Belgiums jokingly call a motorway running east from Dunkirque for about 50 miles or so before you turn south at Namur...not funny in a Landrover
Being a female of the species tho' the only thing she got confused about was driving at the bottom of narrow valleys with 4000m mountains each side where I suppose the signal got bounced around and she gave us all sorts of differing and varied directions which I ignored....very useful occasionally as with all the opposite *** :lol:
On the way back it was great to use the POI facility which meant that we could programme her to take us from Colmar to the Auchan in Dunkirque for essential 'topping up' supplies :wink: and then directly to the Ferry Terminal for the ship home. The TT made the whole driving experience much, much easier and took a huge amount of the worry away.....still took a European road atlas tho' just in case - Rob

 

[Anonymous]

Sounds like you had a great time Woodbloke

 

[RobertMP]

I have a TomTom One V2 and it is fab. Just done over 2000 miles on holiday in Canada with it and it was spot on.

I did just over 2000km in Canada and had TomTom with me. It gives you great confidence in strange towns knowing you can take a wrong turning and it will quickly reroute you back to where you need to go. Takes away any arguments with the map reader too.

Most of the voices you can get are poor impressions. John Cleese is the real thing so he guides us. btw... get a ferry to somewhere and he suggests a temporary separation as our relationship may not be working out
Just wish he wouldn't tell you 3 times when you get somewhere!