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[Robin Hood]

Just wondering how many here have/use Vauxhall's (Carin) sat nav?

[TheBoy]

I have used it. It had an old map (upgradable), but worked. Screen is inconveniently placed, and only pictorial. No postcode search (on the one I looked at)

[iggy21uk]

I think the  old Omega sat nav is a bit long in the tooth???

Better than nothing?

I used Pocket Navigator 6 Europe [£59.00 -beta] on my Ipaq pda
with bluetooth GPS - works fine.
A charger that plugs into lighter socket with usb output helps as it charges the Ipaq for
long trips.

Only sorry I did'nt buy the one with two usb o/p - white though

[RonaldMcBurger]

I've used the one in the Elite (Carin) and it worked fine and had postcode search - of a sort.

But Ialways end up using my little Garmin i3. Great little gadget and it fits perfectly into the little glovebox under the light switch.

So there !

[TheBoy]

Is that the one in the TD - thought they were only standard on 3.0l ones...

You sold it yet?

[Robin Hood]

Have been hearing "relocation needed" a little to offen and was wondering if it is worth getting some disks and giving it a try.

Are the latest disk even compatible? My system is old and only has a small b/w display at the side of the radio.

[TheBoy]

My understanding is that the maps from latest disks do work (can't remember if they use NavTeq or Teleatlas), but the extra features on the new disks obviously don't

[iggy21uk]

Not 100% sure, think some VDO Drayton disks advertised on Fleabay work - not copies
no no no   again Noooooooooooooooo!

Finlay - solved the new windscreen problem then - or a change of Omega projects???

[peterjohn36]

I would keep to the modern GPS systems, better road maps  also you can keep upto date with the safety cameras.

[markrl]

Carin does work with the latest discs but being old she's a little slow at working out routes and searching the index etc. The modern discs although compatible hold much much more information then they did in 1996 when Carin was born. Bit like using an old Pentium 133.

[Salty]

So what's the best portable system these days?

Anybody any opinions?

[TheBoy]

Tomtom is the market leader, though not any better/worse than competitors. Tomtom does have a nice large display, Garmin tend to have small displays, but makes unit smaller. Depends on what you want.

[Salty]

I am looking at the tom tom 710 purely because it a full european map on it's SD card, supposedly door to door mapping. It has the bluetooth phone bit as well but not to sure if i'd use it.

I have tom tom 3 on a pda at the moment, which works fine the maps a bit out of date (No M6 Toll) just a bit bit of a pain having to load the euro maps when needed.

[TheBoy]

I'd be surprised if they had all the full european maps on SD - that would be 2 - 3Gb.  It may have something like 'GB plus' maps (GB plus Major Roads of Europe).

I use TomTom 5 on an iPaq PDA and it works well. Doubles as an MP3 player.

[Salty]

It advertises as full european maps. Depends how big the SD card is?

If you go for the 910 it has a hard disc and full maps of US and canada as well, just thought that might a bit of overkill!

[Salty]

Just checked the tom tom site it's a 1GB card with european mapping to street level so not just major routes.

[TheBoy]

Still not sure I believe they can get full maps on 1Gb. Under Tomtom 5, France and GB combined are 500Mb - thats half the card before you start on the other countries...