General Chat

We use a Tom Tom almost every weekend when we go to Family History Fairs, if the fair is over 150 miles we always go there the night before and stay in a Travel Inn, it's never failed to get us to the Travel Inn yet. When we leave the Travel Inn the next morning to go to the fair we enter the postcode of the fair venue. The Tom Tom is great, we enter the postcode as most of the buildings where fairs are held have their own postcode but you can enter the address, even the door number. It did throw a wobbly the other week at Crawley. The road where the Travel Inn was located had been split into 2 sections and we ended up in the wrong bit of road, I entered the road name instead and it took us round the block right to the door. It came into it's own last Saturday, we came out of Oxford and the road was closed for road works, we took the only turning there was as a diversion but the very nice road workers had not put any diversion signs up, if we hadn't had the Tom Tom we would have been hopelessly lost. Ron www.genealogyprinters(.)com

Thank you again all you people Ive been to Halfords and they have Tom Tom which have to be built in Well it does say free fitting ?? we have to go to Tesco to get food for the cats,theve only ever eaten dried food Sooo Iwill have a look there.I need to get one for a boat as a pressie as well.asap eldest sons birthday April 1st I tell him every year that he was her indoors'es joke that she played on me.I am really suprised that I received a reply from Rochester New York and pleased.thank you all again Bill

I use RAC autoroute from the net. It's free. Anne

Bill that's so funny. Sounds like one of those whacky but gentle British films doesn't it? lol Daisy

Hi Willy, We bought a navman last weekend at Tesco-20% off= £127 ,Lee uses it every day and it`s paid for itself already it finds the fastest route from job to job and it cut 45 mins off a route he already knew! We looked at Halfords and they were very expensive compared to the other retailers. Diane:)

Hi Daisy Pink Sahara??? We had a problem trying to find our way out of Deippe,the ferry as very late and we finally got offabout 1 am tolate to go to the camp that we had booked.we drove around the town and we were getting more and more confused .we finally found a lot of camper vans on the sea front and decided to join them .in the morning we woke up to find that we had joined up with a traveling carnival.we got out of there asfast as we could after I told them that my wife was a mud wrestler it was a good laugh trying to explain to these french people what a mud wrestler was Bill

Had the funniest drive of my life in a car with GPS. Trying to get out of Brussels in the Friday night rush hour with a totally crazy friend and no map only to find that the GPS crashed 500metres into the journey and we hadn't a clue where to go. Every now and then this Italian male voice (her choice!) cropped up with an instruction that made no sense whatsoever but sounded very sexy! Took us 2 hours, several misses with trams and a lot of laughter before we managed it. Daisy

Thanks folks I will check out Halfords in the morning.the reason that I wanted to know is because is that my wife the navigator (not) is always taking me the wrong way .and when you have a large caravan on the back its not always easy to turn aroundand a couple of hundred quid is a small price to pay for one peaceful journey thank you all Bill

Willy, In answer to your questions. Yes, yes and yes although in cities with very tall buildings, the signal sometimes gets distorted.

yeap GARMIN i think they retail at £149 and can change from car to car and easy to use

We have one for our First Responders Group - I never use it as it takes too much time to input the info. There are some really good ones on the market at the moment, research needed - although I still reckon there is a fair way to go before they are worth the money you pay for them. Tina

Has anyone got a G.P.S.in their Vehicle. are they usefull and are they easy to use.and can you change them over from car to car. Bill