mdyoung

I bought a Garmin c340 off eBay today, so now I'm all set once I have money to go somewhere. LOL

Irn-bru

Its brilliant you'll love it.

mdyoung

My Garmin c340 arrived today and it was able to get me to the gas station and back home. Will see if it can get me to work tomorrow. If not I guess I can always call in for leave and say I can't come in because I'm lost. LOL

From the little bit I have played with the unit I'm glad that I bought a unit that announces the street name and the direction to turn.

Irn-bru

Yes I love that to, can't believe some don't announce the street name, it has also helped me with knowing what the street names are called around me

Remember that you have 2 different options to go the faster or shorter route and you can under avoidances put in avoid highway (if you know the traffic is awful in the rush hour etc)
And something which I didn't notice till recently if you hit the top of screen it will give you all the upcoming turns etc it will take you, so you can see what route it will be taking you.

mdyoung

If anyone has recently bought a Garmin GPS unit and it doesn't have the 2008
City Navigator North America NT map installed, you might want to call Garmin and ask that it be given to you free.

I just bought a refurbished c340 and it had the previous version map installed and I learned on this Website:

http://www.poi-factory.com/

that the 2008 City Navigator North America NT just came out and Garmin had provided it free to some people. I called a couple weeks ago and had to fax them a copy of my purchase order and the unit serial number. I received the map update disc in the mail yesterday. It's $69.00 if you buy it.

1-800-800-1020 Garmin

Plus make that you first register the unit on the Garmin Website before calling.

https://www8.garmin.com/registration/selectreg.jsp

Big D

I recently bought the Garmin 370 - which is superb and it comes with US and Europe maps loaded which works out cheaper - used it in the UK and so far nothing but praise - a friend had a tom tom but he was less than impressed by the maps.

Got mine off amazon - best price and no tax - awesome!!

Pony

I recently replaced an older Garmin StreetPilot 2620 with the newer Garmin C580
I expected every feature available on the old unit to be available on the new one - but it wasn't. Ask your husband what features are most important to him.

New features I like:
The unit acts as a handsfree device for my cell phone, you can access the address book through the touch screen, make and receive calls etc.
It has live traffic data - great for avoiding traffic jams
It has spoken street names - my old unit would say "turn left in 200 yards", the new unit will say "turn left on to Main Street in 200 yards" (it means you don't need to take your eyes off the road, and also avoids confusion at intersections with many lanes).
This unit is half the size of my old one.
This unit also works on battery power so it can be used on foot too.

Features I miss:
The old unit allowed me to find an address by street name and zip, the new unit does not support zip codes. (sometimes an address will be listed as being in a certain town, but the GPS has it listed as a neighboring town - finding by ZIP negates the need to second guess the unit, and spell the town correctly - also entering a 5 digit zip is a lot quicker than spelling a long town name).

features I liked about them both:
they contain the full maps of Northern America. If your husband travels a lot then its nice to not have to keep reloading different maps for each state.

features I found unnecessary on the new unit:
MP3 player - I have never used it

features missing from both:
Auto sort multiple destinations (provides most direct route)- enter multiple addresses and have the unit work out the best route to visit them all - if you have multiple appointments this can save a lot of time on the road

Compile a list of all the 'must haves' and buy based on that. All units are not alike

freezerman

"and dont point that bloody spear at me"

Scouse Express

I have just bought a Tom Tom GO910. It has Europe loaded in there, as well as North America.

The Model has just been discontinued. Last year it was on sale at Walmart for $688......I got it at Radio Shack for $380.

As an OTR Coach Driver, it has proven its worth on more than one occasion so far, in the past week or so.

Looking forward to trying it out in Blighty, in a month or so

Jim.

lolly

Works great with mobile phones

Roland Hulme

My brother in law had about a dozen $1100 Magellan GPS units for his workers at his business. He ended up trading the whole lot in for $300 Garmin units, which were tougher, more reliable and did a better job.

With GPS, you don't always get what you pay for.

We have a Magellan and it's sometimes a bit wonky. Other times, it won't get satellite feed for 15 mins at a time. On another occasion, it didn't recognize roads we were on or was about thirty metres 'behind' us on screen (so it would tell us to turn after we'd gone past the junction.)

Plus it keeps falling off the windscreen and breaks really easily.

looselips

I have a Garmin too and love it. We got a custom vent mount (to avoid it becoming a missile in the event an idiot crashing into us) which works well and is discreet.

I also have Daniel the Brit as the voice. Apart from the occassional fluff ie arrive stop n Shop becomes arrive Stop North Shop or arrive H T S instead of Heights, he is perfect. Bless him.

Rushman

Took mine back home a few weeks ago mate and it worked a charm....as an added bonus it also warns you a couple of hundred feet in advance of speed cameras..I ****ing loved that little feature. If I had one criticism..the docking system was designed by a complete idiot.

TruBrit

mine is the garmin 350 and i'm very pleased with it, no probs.

Scouse Express

I suppose that you could do with that feature working over here, too

Jim.