Just bought me my first sat nav Yeaa

coolpunkskater · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:18

had to shout about it am so happy i got me a £200 sat nav for £70 a competitor had it knocked down yeaaaaa

its a Myguide its runny windows something and takes sd cards and has 512mb on board seems all good i know nothing about sat nav thou lol

[TW]Fox · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:30

If it was £200 a competitor certainly not a £200 satnav. Probably worth 50 quid at best and not a very good one.

furnace · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:31

Well that was nice of you, Fox..!

[TW]Fox · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:41

Ok, I'll pretend it's awesome.

OMG YAYZ!! Nice one dude, I'm so happy for you, competitor satnav range is amazing!

surfsquid · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:41

He has got a point, but still as long as the op's happy with it!

~J~ · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:43

Chuffing hell, talking about bursting his balloon!!!

Good on ya OP. Now register on the GeoCaching forums and have some outdoor fun!!

jakeke · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:44

And here's to many more!

coolpunkskater · 31 Oct 2007 at 16:02

yea its not the best one out there and i wont be using it much as i still like to map read

but its handy when i go to mother in laws as i always get lost in wiltshire

but i just cant get the dam gps to work says theres no signal

Richdog · 31 Oct 2007 at 16:03

coolpunkskater said:
had to shout about it am so happy i got me a £200 sat nav for £70 a competitor had it knocked down yeaaaaa

its a Myguide its runny windows something and takes sd cards and has 512mb on board seems all good i know nothing about sat nav thou lol

What model is it?

Dup · 31 Oct 2007 at 16:20

I've got Tom Tom 6 on my Orange SPV. "Free" phone on contract and cost me about £70 for the software. Easy.

InvaderGIR · 31 Oct 2007 at 16:24

coolpunkskater said:
but i just cant get the dam gps to work says theres no signal

Stand outside for about 5-10 mins. Seriously, some take ages to pick up a signal, but once they have one it stays till you either sit inside for ages, or turn it off.

InvG

coolpunkskater · 1 Nov 2007 at 19:33

yep all ok now
tock about 10 mins to find gps but know as soon as am outside BooM gps every time

coolpunkskater · 1 Nov 2007 at 19:33

Richdog said:
What model is it?

i think its the 3100

oldbag · 1 Nov 2007 at 19:37

Just don't programme your postcode as a favourite/shortcut into it.

coolpunkskater · 1 Nov 2007 at 19:42

yea i heard thats not a good idea

[TR]SweetSpotOz · 1 Nov 2007 at 19:47

Triad2000 said:
Just don't programme your postcode as a favourite/shortcut into it.

Is this incase someone steals it and finds your home postcode?

I don't understand why that is a bad idea? It's not as if they didn't know about houses there anyway and just because you have a satnav it doesn't mean your house is worth stealing from.

If it's not because of that then maybe I'm missing something obvious!

coolpunkskater · 1 Nov 2007 at 19:51

lol well the post code ive got set as "home" is close to me but not my post code and its got the worng door no. :-)

Al-Ectrician · 1 Nov 2007 at 19:54

coolpunkskater said:
lol well the post code ive got set as "home" is close to me but not my post code and its got the worng door no.

You are a total physco! lol

Al

oldbag · 1 Nov 2007 at 19:55

markyp23 said:
Is this incase someone steals it and finds your home postcode?

I don't understand why that is a bad idea? It's not as if they didn't know about houses there anyway and just because you have a satnav it doesn't mean your house is worth stealing from.

If it's not because of that then maybe I'm missing something obvious!

Yeah, but it may present less risk for a burglar who on successfully nicking your car (assuming it wasn't outside your house in the first place) then goes to break in to your house, safe in the assurance that you won't be home. Of course it's not that much less of a risk, you may have someone else at home at the time, etc.

Al-Ectrician · 1 Nov 2007 at 19:57

Triad2000 said:
Yeah, but it may present less risk for a burglar who on successfully nicking your car (assuming it wasn't outside your house in the first place) then goes to break in to your house, safe in the assurance that you won't be home. Of course it's not that much less of a risk, you may have someone else at home at the time, etc.

The whole world is paranoid......

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