Sat Nav for an Elise

james · Post by **james** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:18 pm

Ok I've resisted for long enough and the other day - trying to get to another new place for a customer meeting - finally cracked. I cant read a map and drive, checking for speed cameras and all the other stuff you need to do now so I need a Stephen Hawking speaking map reader thingy.

I need it...

To tell me where to go
To tell me when I should be especially "safe" around the "safety" scameras.

I dont want to play music on it or anything else, but it needs to be clear, reliable and be able to be mounted in the Elise.

Would anyone recommend one from personal knowledge to save me having to ask a Halfrauds employee.

Cheers

James

jj · Post by jj » Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:23 pm

My brother bought one of these last week, and its a great bit of kit - whole of europe and UK and tomtom maps - not quite sure how the guy does it (he obviously loads the tomtom maps onto his own hardware) but for the money its great, been using it all week with no problems.

He doesnt mention its running tomtom software in the ad - my bro didnt realise til it turned up, so must be a dodge there somewhere

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GPS-SatNav-Sat-Na ... dZViewItem

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:00 pm

Interested in this too - thinking of getting one in the absence of the RS6

The Sony one (something 52 IIRC) kind of caught my eye cos it's got an integral mount & sucker, and has just been reduced from 150 to 130 squids

scottyf · Post by **scottyf** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:10 pm

Id avoid the Indago and its breed, ive got one. wish I'd bought a TomTom

gorrie · Post by **gorrie** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:37 pm

'Sat Nav for an Elise'

Hardly a fair swap that now, is it...

I've got a cheap navman F20. Might not always take you the best route, but has always got me where I was meant to be going which is the point of the thing at the end of the day. Alerts you to fixed camera positions too.

The good thing about it is that you can buy a plug in unit for the traffic updates (£60 I think), and that's you for life... no 'live' or 'traffic' subscription.

It was a toss up between the F20 and the TomTom One, but the TomTom was extra for speed camera stuff... and I'm sure there was a subscription for traffic or something. Having said that, I've had it a year now and I'm sure there are far better units to choose from now at the cheap end of the scale if it's just a bog standard SatNav unit you want.

My colleague was about to splash out £500 on a higher end TomTom unit because he wanted to be able to use Ozzy as the voice. He had a shot of mine, and bought one the next day... saved him some cash that did.

Post by **simon** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:23 pm

TomTom gets my vote and the speed camera stuff is free if you buy the right pack

jj · Post by jj » Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:33 pm

I forgot to mention it, but the one that I posted the link to comes with all the mobile camera locations and fixed cameras on it (up to date, as far as we can tell from using it so far) not sure what tomtom comes with normally.

I was looking through the guys feedback, and for the last month he has sold one every 15ish mins

Bada Bing! · Post by **Bada Bing!** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:53 pm

I personally hate the look of stick on sat-navs. I'd prefer to spend a lot more money on a head unit based one that tucks away when I'm finished and doesn't have wires everywhere etc.

I've yet to find a cheap and decent one though...

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:10 pm

Car PC
http://www.stevieg.org/carpc/

DejaVu on this.
I just think it's a great idea