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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: waspy on 12 April 2008, 11:06:19
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Hi all. I'm looking for a new sat nav as mine decided it didn't wana be passenger any more & jumped out the window ;)
So i'm looking for your recommedations for a new one.
I'm not looking for spending above £100.00, but i would like one with speed camera locations & i'm not bothered about European maps.
Your thoughts please.
PS I would prefer to have one that knows where it is ;D ;D & not directing me into farmers fields etc >:( >:(
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Ive tried a few satnav systems and the best i feel is tomtom, though not flawless (has tried to send me up a one way street before) its the best of the bunch
Though unless you go second hand getting one for sub £100 is gonna be hard
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tom tom all the way :y :y :y
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http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10651&storeId=10001&langId=-1&productId=260869&p1=38270&p2=31284
Using the voucher prices the Tomtom one starts at £109 dunno if your budget would stretch to that.
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tom tom, good nav for your money :y
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Basically -- you DO get what you pay for with sat nav --- TomTom use OS mapping or an equivalent whereas the cheaper systems use two students on their annual holidays noting down routes on a scrap of paper -- which is later fed into the mapping system!
I have been using Tom Tom for 4 years now and have never been sent down any erroneous route
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Hi all. I'm looking for a new sat nav as mine decided it didn't wana be passenger any more & jumped out the window ;)
So i'm looking for your recommedations for a new one.
I'm not looking for spending above £100.00, but i would like one with speed camera locations & i'm not bothered about European maps.
Your thoughts please.
PS I would prefer to have one that knows where it is ;D ;D & not directing me into farmers fields etc >:( >:(
A-Z is good and cheaper :y
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got a navman f20 ,basic but it does what i need it to.
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I can`t afford a Sat-Nav of my own; but have been passenger in a Subaru with 'factory' (VDO?) Sat-Nav and wasn`t impressed; as it repeatedly tried to send us from North Wales to Essex: via Swansea!!!! (and that was the fastest/shortest route!) :o
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thats because scoobys belong in essex,they feel at home here....goes like a train but looks tasteless and tacky ;D ;D
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Tomtom every time and on ebay you can get second hand from as little as £60. :y
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http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10651&storeId=10001&langId=-1&productId=260869&p1=38270&p2=31284
Using the voucher prices the Tomtom one starts at £109 dunno if your budget would stretch to that.
Thank you bod. Just purchased a TomTom one Traffic online for £137.00, saving me just over £22.00 using the voucher :y :y
Ok, it's over what i wanted to pay, but you all can't be wrong can you ::) ::) ;D ;D
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swmbo has a new navman f20 in the box that i think she wants to sell if your interested i can ask the price :-/
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thats because scoobys belong in essex,they feel at home here....goes like a train but looks tasteless and tacky ;D ;D
Amongst the Burbers of Essex. ;D
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yup :y ;D
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Ive been using a Tom Tom for about 3 years and wouldn't be without it :y
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thats because scoobys belong in essex,they feel at home here....goes like a train but looks tasteless and tacky ;D ;D
Steady on, nothing better looking than the classic 22B beautifull from any angle, best of all from behind the wheel
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thats because scoobys belong in essex,they feel at home here....goes like a train but looks tasteless and tacky ;D ;D
Steady on, nothing better looking than the classic 22B beautifull from any angle, best of all from behind the wheel
38DD, much better :P :-* ;D
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thats because scoobys belong in essex,they feel at home here....goes like a train but looks tasteless and tacky ;D ;D
Steady on, nothing better looking than the classic 22B beautifull from any angle, best of all from behind the wheel
38DD, much better :P :-* ;D
::) .....`found wanting! :-[
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more than a handful is a waste ( whatever they are talking about ) :-/
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more than a handful is a waste ( whatever they are talking about ) :-/
I have large hands ;D
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more than a handful is a waste ( whatever they are talking about ) :-/
Thats just the same as an ugly person sayin beauty is on the inside ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Basically -- you DO get what you pay for with sat nav --- TomTom use OS mapping or an equivalent whereas the cheaper systems use two students on their annual holidays noting down routes on a scrap of paper -- which is later fed into the mapping system!
I have been using Tom Tom for 4 years now and have never been sent down any erroneous route
No, Tomtom uses maps from the same 2 mapping companies as everyone else - Teleatlas (who they are trying to buy, but city things it will kill tomtom) and Navteq.
I thin TT has a good feature set and is easy to use. The latest Navmans are good, but bit clunky in use.
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My 'Nokia 95' loaded with 'tom tom' is brilliant and free to use, credit to my son not me, he downloaded all info for free, very impressed.
regards
richard a
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ive been thinking of loading my mobile with software, i pick up a nokia n95 on wed. this looks quite good, shows what phones are compatable
http://navigation.teleatlas.com/en/shop/nokia/mobile/
richie
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tom tom one 3rd edition for me spot on includes traffic cams :y
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I don't need a sat nav, I was in the Scouts ;D ;D ;D
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Tom Tom 910, never be without it now...does the lot
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tom tom one wicked bit of kit took me all over this country !! :y
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tom tom one 3rd edition for me spot on includes traffic cams :y
This is the one i'll be getting, does traffic updates too :y
When it arrives, i'll tell it "no sh*t or out the window you go" ;)
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tom tom one 3rd edition for me spot on includes traffic cams :y
This is the one i'll be getting, does traffic updates too :y
When it arrives, i'll tell it "no sh*t or out the window you go" ;)
Tom Tom 910 does all of that, i also get free map downloads, free update on the speed cameras, it also picks up the mobile cameras...it cost me £350, but well worth it......never sent me the wrong way and it tells me the direction to go well in advance etc.
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tom tom one 3rd edition for me spot on includes traffic cams :y
This is the one i'll be getting, does traffic updates too :y
When it arrives, i'll tell it "no sh*t or out the window you go" ;)
......if so, please tell me where to stand with a catcher`s glove at the ready! :y
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Got to be Tom Tom. My work had a few different ones and only decent one was Tom Tom. All of the others have stopped working and have now been replaced with Tom Toms. On multi-drop routes they go on forever even if used 50 times per day.
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tom tom one 3rd edition for me spot on includes traffic cams :y
This is the one i'll be getting, does traffic updates too :y
When it arrives, i'll tell it "no sh*t or out the window you go" ;)
......if so, please tell me where to stand with a catcher`s glove at the ready! :y
;D ;D :y
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http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10651&storeId=10001&langId=-1&productId=260869&p1=38270&p2=31284
Using the voucher prices the Tomtom one starts at £109 dunno if your budget would stretch to that.
Thank you bod. Just purchased a TomTom one Traffic online for £137.00, saving me just over £22.00 using the voucher :y :y
Ok, it's over what i wanted to pay, but you all can't be wrong can you ::) ::) ;D ;D
Nice one :y :y
As a matter of interest if you are into this sort thing but there are some voice pack addons, one of the funniest I heard was a Barnsley yob F**ing and Blinding at you through the sat nav to turn right and left and wow, watch out for the F***ing speed camera. ;D ;D
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http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10651&storeId=10001&langId=-1&productId=260869&p1=38270&p2=31284
Using the voucher prices the Tomtom one starts at £109 dunno if your budget would stretch to that.
Thank you bod. Just purchased a TomTom one Traffic online for £137.00, saving me just over £22.00 using the voucher :y :y
Ok, it's over what i wanted to pay, but you all can't be wrong can you ::) ::) ;D ;D
Nice one :y :y
As a matter of interest if you are into this sort thing but there are some voice pack addons, one of the funniest I heard was a Barnsley yob F**ing and Blinding at you through the sat nav to turn right and left and wow, watch out for the F***ing speed camera. ;D ;D
Were do you get these from? Are they a down load, i'd love sumat like this :y :y :y :y
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http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10651&storeId=10001&langId=-1&productId=260869&p1=38270&p2=31284
Using the voucher prices the Tomtom one starts at £109 dunno if your budget would stretch to that.
Thank you bod. Just purchased a TomTom one Traffic online for £137.00, saving me just over £22.00 using the voucher :y :y
Ok, it's over what i wanted to pay, but you all can't be wrong can you ::) ::) ;D ;D
Nice one :y :y
As a matter of interest if you are into this sort thing but there are some voice pack addons, one of the funniest I heard was a Barnsley yob F**ing and Blinding at you through the sat nav to turn right and left and wow, watch out for the F***ing speed camera. ;D ;D
Most back-seat drivers (hubbies/wives/partners) could do the same job; without the technology! ;D
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http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10651&storeId=10001&langId=-1&productId=260869&p1=38270&p2=31284
Using the voucher prices the Tomtom one starts at £109 dunno if your budget would stretch to that.
Thank you bod. Just purchased a TomTom one Traffic online for £137.00, saving me just over £22.00 using the voucher :y :y
Ok, it's over what i wanted to pay, but you all can't be wrong can you ::) ::) ;D ;D
Nice one :y :y
As a matter of interest if you are into this sort thing but there are some voice pack addons, one of the funniest I heard was a Barnsley yob F**ing and Blinding at you through the sat nav to turn right and left and wow, watch out for the F***ing speed camera. ;D ;D
Most back-seat drivers (hubbies/wives/partners) could do the same job; without the technology! ;D
I'll stick with the sat nav thanx Dame Debs :D
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Back seat drivers, goota agree there Debs.
Hakfords actually sell some of the voice packs but I am sure there are other sources on the net ;) ;)
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Was chattin to my kid brother yesterday regards sat navs, he sometimes does over a 1000 miles a week so relies heavily on his.
If I got his conversation right he has a Garmin model which he bought new that developed a fault. Sent it back under warranty .
The replacement arrived of which he is/was sure sure it had allready been used.
Playing about with the settings and buttons etc as you do when you get a new gadget he was horrified when a report screen came up telling him how many miles the Sat Nav had covered (more than he was aware that he had covered, hence confirming that it was preused), but even worse the top speed it had recorded. The thing is he cant remember how he got on to it. But the scary thing is that is had stored the data data.
Is Big Brother Closing in on us.... I wonder.
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Was chattin to my kid brother yesterday regards sat navs, he sometimes does over a 1000 miles a week so relies heavily on his.
If I got his conversation right he has a Garmin model which he bought new that developed a fault. Sent it back under warranty .
The replacement arrived of which he is/was sure sure it had allready been used.
Playing about with the settings and buttons etc as you do when you get a new gadget he was horrified when a report screen came up telling him how many miles the Sat Nav had covered (more than he was aware that he had covered, hence confirming that it was preused), but even worse the top speed it had recorded. The thing is he cant remember how he got on to it. But the scary thing is that is had stored the data data.
Is Big Brother Closing in on us.... I wonder.
So what you're saying is- that these things can actually record how fast you have driven :o :o :o
I'm glad i didn't take mine in the GTA=140mph ;) ;)
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Thats what he said he found, but he cant remember what he did to get on the screen.
Scary thought if thats what he actually found.
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Silly gimmicks all of them. Try a MAP!!! ::)
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thats because scoobys belong in essex,they feel at home here....goes like a train but looks tasteless and tacky ;D ;D
Steady on, nothing better looking than the classic 22B (ugly scooby) beautifull from any angle, best of all from behind the wheel
To quote:
That's like an ugly person saying beauty is on the inside ;D
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Just bought a Tom Tom GO 520 last week, well impressed :y
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had a navman the basic one for a couple of years best thing ive ever brought you can pick them up for about 100.00 from argos the thing i have noticed a couple of times when you arive at the destination following the route it sent you it says destination on the left and it would be on the right but its no big deal but like i said about twice in 2 years but never wrong ways or turns also it has the speed cams.
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I have tom tom go 910 is very good but if someone drive only uk the chipest tom tom is great deal :y
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tom tom never really let me down, use it a lot, :y
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A-Z is good and cheaper :y
A-Z street level map of every town, city & village in the UK!?! Cheaper than a tom-tom!?! :-? Urr Urrrrr ::) It still doesn't tell you which way to go. No contest. May I now welcome you to the 21st century young sir! :y
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A-Z is good and cheaper :y
A-Z street level map of every town, city & village in the UK!?! Cheaper than a tom-tom!?! :-? Urr Urrrrr ::) It still doesn't tell you which way to go. No contest. May I now welcome you to the 21st century young sir! :y
I can see how Sat-Nav has advantages in towns/cities etc.....but out in the wilds where a 'postcode' target applies to several houses that may be many Km. apart on un-named/numbered roads (and physically on differing roads too!) the technology simply isn`t good-enough.
e.g: the Sat. Nav target for my postcode takes you to an un-adopted road on the other side of a huge hill 4 Km.`s away......I`m heartily sick of delivery drivers returning my packages to the sender; because their Sat-Nav`s don`t bring 'easy' results....I might add that the one courier company that doesn`t use Sat. Nav ALWAYS manages to make the delivery....making use of good old-fashioned common-sense and (if necessary) asking directions from locals. ::)
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For what it's worth, I think the TomTom is great for the type of journey where you just want to navigate to an address by postcode taking the fastest / shortest route. If this is all you want to do get one. It's a no-brainer, IMHO.
If you want to choose your own routes, perhaps taking in some interesting roads, and plan routes in advance for using later, the Tom Tom is not for you, IMHO.
Yes, it comes with software you can use on a PC for planning routes "offline" but this just brings up a "tom tom emulation" on the screen so you get to plan routes just as awkwardly as on the tom tom itself but with the additional hassle of having to transfer the routes from the PC to the Tom Tom.
In contrast, I used to use CoPilot Live on a Pocket PC and this came with a really good mapping application you could run on a PC to enter routes. Nice, big, detailed maps of the whole of Europe to plan routes on, and then just copy them to a memory card and chuck it into the PocketPC.
Yes, the PocketPC solution made it very clumsy on the move as it's an unstable platform that has a habit of suddenly denying any knowledge of the bluetooth GPS, running out of memory, etc. It relies on more cables than the Tom Tom and is generally a pain. The CoPilot software is not desperately stable either, and, in particular I found a roundabout near Spalding that makes it throw it's toys out of the pram in a big way every time I go past there.
The convenience of the Tom Tom on the road with the offline planning capabilities of Co Pilot would be fantastic. :-/
I bought a Tom Tom before driving down to Italy last year and really missed some of the features of CoPilot.
Kevin
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A-Z is good and cheaper :y
A-Z street level map of every town, city & village in the UK!?! Cheaper than a tom-tom!?! :-? Urr Urrrrr ::) It still doesn't tell you which way to go. No contest. May I now welcome you to the 21st century young sir! :y
I can see how Sat-Nav has advantages in towns/cities etc.....but out in the wilds where a 'postcode' target applies to several houses that may be many Km. apart on un-named/numbered roads (and physically on differing roads too!) the technology simply isn`t good-enough.
e.g: the Sat. Nav target for my postcode takes you to an un-adopted road on the other side of a huge hill 4 Km.`s away......I`m heartily sick of delivery drivers returning my packages to the sender; because their Sat-Nav`s don`t bring 'easy' results....I might add that the one courier company that doesn`t use Sat. Nav ALWAYS manages to make the delivery....making use of good old-fashioned common-sense and (if necessary) asking directions from locals. ::)
Easy fix add two lines to your address.
Line 1 the OS grid reference
Line 2 the lat longs
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A-Z is good and cheaper :y
A-Z street level map of every town, city & village in the UK!?! Cheaper than a tom-tom!?! :-? Urr Urrrrr ::) It still doesn't tell you which way to go. No contest. May I now welcome you to the 21st century young sir! :y
I can see how Sat-Nav has advantages in towns/cities etc.....but out in the wilds where a 'postcode' target applies to several houses that may be many Km. apart on un-named/numbered roads (and physically on differing roads too!) the technology simply isn`t good-enough.
e.g: the Sat. Nav target for my postcode takes you to an un-adopted road on the other side of a huge hill 4 Km.`s away......I`m heartily sick of delivery drivers returning my packages to the sender; because their Sat-Nav`s don`t bring 'easy' results....I might add that the one courier company that doesn`t use Sat. Nav ALWAYS manages to make the delivery....making use of good old-fashioned common-sense and (if necessary) asking directions from locals. ::)
Easy fix add two lines to your address.
Line 1 the OS grid reference
Line 2 the lat longs
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:y Now, that IS a darned good idea! :y
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Sat Nav...Hmmmm
Mine cost £5.99 and has never let me down. ;)
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A-Z is good and cheaper :y
A-Z street level map of every town, city & village in the UK!?! Cheaper than a tom-tom!?! :-? Urr Urrrrr ::) It still doesn't tell you which way to go. No contest. May I now welcome you to the 21st century young sir! :y
I can see how Sat-Nav has advantages in towns/cities etc.....but out in the wilds where a 'postcode' target applies to several houses that may be many Km. apart on un-named/numbered roads (and physically on differing roads too!) the technology simply isn`t good-enough.
e.g: the Sat. Nav target for my postcode takes you to an un-adopted road on the other side of a huge hill 4 Km.`s away......I`m heartily sick of delivery drivers returning my packages to the sender; because their Sat-Nav`s don`t bring 'easy' results....I might add that the one courier company that doesn`t use Sat. Nav ALWAYS manages to make the delivery....making use of good old-fashioned common-sense and (if necessary) asking directions from locals. ::)
Easy fix add two lines to your address.
Line 1 the OS grid reference
Line 2 the lat longs
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:y Now, that IS a darned good idea! :y
Net result, the van driver will look at all these strange numbers, scratch his @rse, then take it back to the depot. ::)
It's pure laziness. What did they do before sat nav?
Kevin
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Silly gimmicks all of them. Try a MAP!!! ::)
hear hear
i love maps me. make me own mind up about routes!
i read once that satnavs are doing for geography what calculators have done for maths...not actually sure if they meant in a good or bad way!! :-/
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Each to thier own as they say.
I love map reading etc, but I am still going for a Sat Nav.
Am just a lazy Git. ;D ;D ;D
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Recently bought a Tomtom XL after years of reading maps and using Multimap.Got the system now but cant see the screen as with windscreen mount it is too far away,so opted for a dash mount for it.Must say it is very clever,but does have the habit of taking you strange ways especially in South London,I have had several arguements with it.
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I got a TomTom One for Christmas (well actually I didn't, so I bought one in January ;D).
Amazon £99 - good deal I think.
I would be interested in how long other people get out of their battery before needing to plug it in. I get about 2 hours (with voice on) which I think is quite short. I don't like draping a cable across the fascia though.
Cheers
Ian
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Yes ,2 hours about right.I have hardwired mine in to ignition feed and taken wires up through side air vent.Lokks a lot neater but is a pain having to unplug and remove and then reconnect again,but better than a brick through windscreen I suppose.
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best options for wiring in a satnav?
1. hardwire OEM power lead?
2. hardwire aux ciggie lighter, to allow complete removal - location?