"Steve Firth" wrote in message
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"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote:

Steve Firth wrote:

Why do you say that 'outside the UK then the Garmin becomes a
no-brainer'?

Why not? Do you have any evidence to counter the point?

I've only ever had a TomTom GO700 so can only comment about that but in
my
posting to the OP at 11.38, I say:

So out of the one GPS unit that you have tried that one GPS unit is the
best of all the GPS units that you have tried?

*I've had a TomTom GO700 for the last four or five years and it's been
brilliant (sat here at home in Preston, Lancashire, and entered the
address
of our hotel in Gdansk, Poland, and it took us there without any hiccups
at
all)*

Yes, of all the satnavs you have tried, the TomTom is the best. I think
we've established that.

The above example was for a one-off specific trip to Gdansk but, for our
annual holidays over the last four years it has faithfully navigated us
around Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland completely
effortlessly and without a single misdirection or problems of any sort
whatsoever.

Umm hmm so it was the best of the one unit of this kind that you've ever
had.

I've never had a Garmin (and when this unit dies, because it's been so
brilliant I'll probably replace it with another TomTom) but I fail to see
just how it could perform any better, or be any better, than a TomTom.

So you've not owned a Garmin, never intend to buy a Garmin, don't intend
to ever try a Garmin but you can state without fear of contradiction
that the only satnav that you have ever used is much better.

I'm glad we settled that.

My choice will have to be a Garmin then because TomTom charge an annual sub
for their Live services, seems a bit much for traffic updates, I understand
that Garmin provides this for free. I will generally use this for days out,
sometime long distance. I am good at mapping routes and following them, but
when roads are unexpectedly closed then I run into problems. I have also
had trouble missing turn offs due to signs being concealed by over grown
vegetation. European maps do open possibilities that I would never have
considered.