TomTom GO

hello mate

I use the checkpoint database and the coordinates are spot on. Ive got some weird woman saying "speed cmera within 30 seconds". Ive never yet found a speed camera that hasnt been listed - this also includes speed cameras that are setup when roadworks are going on.

The database is updated every week so its important to stay on top.
The new release this week actually has the mobile speed camera locations and motorway side police locations....

Excellent as far as Im concerned. Backup with with a road angel it makes a powerful system.

 

Interested in picking one up for the holidays- any more feedback on this unit?

 

Yes I think they are crap. What is the point in a unit telling where all the static cameras are, even if they are not on?
I use a Valentine 1 this tells you if the cameras are on or not, much better, also warns of mobile traps etc

 

I had a Valentine 1 about 5 years ago and it was garbage! Set off by all sorts of spurious signals. As good as useless in London as it gave false alarms so often i never trusted it.

Got a road angel a while back and it's been excellent.

Interested to hear about the TomTom though, as used having satnav in the beemer now and miss it in the 355..................

 

i have a velentine 1 and a road angel as backup, the v1 is the nuts and i got mine off ebay fairly cheap

 

Stu, I use Go in the 355, and it is absolutely fantastic. One self contained unit, no cradles etc to worry about - suctions onto the windscreen.

Directions are superb, maps excellent, points of interest etc (nearest petrol station / parking facility / restaurants etc). Touch screen. Audio quality is superb and can be heard clearly over the 355 engine.

Can't think of anything to fault it on.

 

This is the same woman that took us down a tiny street then onto the road we'd just left, while on the way to Silverstone at some un-Godly hour!!

Foxy x

 

Women navigators for you eh It was all you....

 

I was barely conscious!!

Foxy x

 

ERm..That sounded a little dodgy!

I insist I was still partially asleep (and rather nervous!)

Foxy x

 

LMAO - dont be giving people the wrong impression on here ...
Could easily be taken like Im a woman beater!

 

As you're so young Lee, I was thinking master.

 

arent't you?

 

I use the tomtom software with an ipaq - it's the same software - and checkpoint for the speed cameras, etc.

It does warn on cameras correctly, although won't tell you if they are active, and often will pick up one on a parallel road if you are on a motorway for example. Also the POI ocassionally directs you to a 'nearest' petrol station miles away from the nearest petrol station!

Great for navigation but I wouldn't rely on it as a sole protector from Gatso-man. Warning on the navigation - mostly great but my b!tch-in-a-box does sometimes get confused about turning/bearing left/right on sharpish corners, and I once blindly followed her directions in a huge circle for about 20 mins when she got confused about which level of a carriageway I was on (criss-crossy junctions with over and underpasses). B!tch.

 

foxy dear ..... buy cal one for xmas ... he needs it !

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yeah, cos a man needs more than 1 woman in his life telling him what to do

 

Well Ive got bugger all gadgets and NO Points either MUhahahahaha