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kjon51

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Budget Sat Nav - HELP!
« on: 13 November 2006, 13:21:23 »
Hi all,
I'm looking at the bottom line price on a sat nav, best I've found so far is the Garmin street pilot i3 for £99.99 at carphone warehouse!

ANY ADVICE??????

Next up I've seen is the Navman F20 - about £150?

Also - do I have to get a seperate speed camera detector or does the one unit do it all??

Sorry about all the questions, but I'm suddenly feeling a little out of my depth here  :o
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Re: Budget Sat Nav - HELP!
« Reply #1 on: 13 November 2006, 13:49:40 »
I put Autoroute '06 on a laptop for £35 and bought a secondhand GPS locator and downloaded the drivers off the manufacturer's website.

Sum total £40. Wasn't the greatest, but seemed to just as good as any of the purpose built SatNav systems the other teams had on the S2N rally.

If you don't have a laptop, one of the other teams had a tower system PC in the boot with a touchscreen monitor built in to the dash' and a similar GPS system.

Perhaps not what you had in mind, but I wouldn't buy a TomTom or the like because I found the laptop much better 'cos it's so much more versatile for playing music etcetera.
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Re: Budget Sat Nav - HELP!
« Reply #2 on: 13 November 2006, 13:57:52 »
see if you can get cheap ipaq type pocketpc off ebay with gps and tomtom s/w....
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Re: Budget Sat Nav - HELP!
« Reply #3 on: 13 November 2006, 13:58:32 »
That's an interesting idea.  I know where I can get a laptop with a dead screen and no batteries.  Could be installed in the trunk in a similar fashion.
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Re: Budget Sat Nav - HELP!
« Reply #4 on: 13 November 2006, 14:05:59 »
Save yourself some £££ and by a good map, idiot nav's look damm ugly stuck to your screen. Just my opinion. Map reading is a dying art, i'm not a geography teacher, i'm a truck driver you know the scurge of the highway!! 8-)
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Re: Budget Sat Nav - HELP!
« Reply #5 on: 13 November 2006, 14:27:59 »
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That's an interesting idea.  I know where I can get a laptop with a dead screen and no batteries.  Could be installed in the trunk in a similar fashion.

I had a very tricky shelf fashioned out of an MFI keyboard drawer, (from my desk at home), which was installed where the glovebox is/was.

I say tricky 'cos it all folded up and slid into the dash out the way.



I should patent it really!!
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Re: Budget Sat Nav - HELP!
« Reply #6 on: 13 November 2006, 14:34:16 »
Awsome dude  :o
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Re: Budget Sat Nav - HELP!
« Reply #7 on: 13 November 2006, 14:37:31 »
You can't now, you've made it public  ;)

That's the same model laptop I was talking about.  Would be easier to install in the trunk than a tower.  However, hard to get a touchscreen for much less than 200 quid, so not a real savings.

I think I'll just get the 45 quid update disk off of eBay for the factory sat-nav.  :(
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Re: Budget Sat Nav - HELP!
« Reply #8 on: 13 November 2006, 14:51:59 »
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That's the same model laptop I was talking about.

Well, I couldn't have made it work better if I tried. That laptop fitted perfectly in the space. My other one would've been too wide.

I have seen s/h touchscreens on eBay for under £50 but they're 14 - 15" jobs that might be a little bulky, but if you can find a home for one, it'd be much better than the 7 - 8" option IMHO.
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Re: Budget Sat Nav - HELP!
« Reply #9 on: 13 November 2006, 16:01:38 »
I use a pda with built in gps receiver, quite compact and does the job :)
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Re: Budget Sat Nav - HELP!
« Reply #10 on: 13 November 2006, 17:43:52 »
I've got a navman, with bult in antena, previously had the PDA with built in navigation but too many wires and bits for my liking, thats why got the navman, no wires when fully, but does'nt do speed cameras etc.. Did'nt know they even did identfify spped cams etc.. Used to have a snooper, but that just kept gettin on my t*ts pickin up all the sensors off of the traffic lights, and beeped when on the motorway, and could'nt see nothing, got rid of it, its cheaper paying attention ;D ;D  
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Re: Budget Sat Nav - HELP!
« Reply #11 on: 13 November 2006, 18:12:14 »
I've got an iPaq 4150, with TomTom 5 installed. Got it as I needed more than just SatNav. Pretty well impressed with the speed of route calculation etc.

I'm going to be ebaying it shortly though as I'm changing to a new TomTom all in one unit, as all I want now is SatNav

If you're interested I was going to put it on about £150, comes with the wired GPS received, and screen mount, charger etc.

PM if you're interested.

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Re: Budget Sat Nav - HELP!
« Reply #12 on: 13 November 2006, 18:36:46 »
I was HP iPaq hx2750 running TomTom 6 wire a wired GPS.  Proper cradle fitted, and all wiring hidden....  ...Mrs TheBoy has same setup on her Rover...
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Re: Budget Sat Nav - HELP!
« Reply #13 on: 13 November 2006, 18:58:25 »
Cheers for the input!!!
Who wants a laptop stuck in the glovebox? Let alone a tower in the boot!
I was thinking more like what's commonly available - at a decent price - off the shelf - what's good & what's bad?
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Re: Budget Sat Nav - HELP!
« Reply #14 on: 13 November 2006, 19:02:46 »
Garmin C320. Very happy with mine. Great menu system and won auto express budget sat nav system.

Shop around as the price can vary a LOT !

Try searching on ebay for Garmin c320 there are loads for sale . Here is a link to one just to give you some idea.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BOXED-GARMIN-C320-GPS-SAT-NAV-UK-AND-IRELAND-MAPS_W0QQitemZ250049055776QQihZ015QQcategoryZ75327QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Very cheap to get a download for Gatso sites as well. ;D

Hope that helps

Cheers Darryl
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