TOMTOM Advise Needed

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Im looking to get myself a half decent TomTom and would like some advice.

Ideally I'd like to be able to give the HD traffic a go so what are my best options. Would like to keep the price around £150 if possible? :confused:

Can anyone give me some recommendations?


Edit: Just seen this one which sounds like a good deal... have I just answered my own question? lol

TomTom XL LIVE Europe - FREE 12 Months LIVE Services - £159.99
 
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I've been using an XL LIVE with the HD services for about 8 months or so. Generally it worked well, but a few times when we were on holiday the unit would reset (itself frustrating) but it would then lose the HD account details. This requires connection to the PC with the TomTom Home software on so most likely not something you'd be able to do away from home.

The HD Traffic was very accurate, sometimes it would be within 10meters which is really very good, but the other HD services (Google search, weather) are things that any web enabled phone could easily do.

The major frustration came when I wanted to cancel the service. There's NO WAY of doing this within your TomTom account online and you're instructed to use the clunky support form to request a cancellation.
Rather unsurprisingly a month after I cancelled I noticed another payment had come out so was forced to call their help-line. After a tedious wait I was connected with someone who informed they hadn't received my request and so I'd have to give another month of notice. I made it very that wouldn't be happening and luckily he managed to accept that.

It's very poor not to have this function within the account area.
 
Ahleckz said:
Never known why anything else would be needed.
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thats helpfull :rolleyes:

you need a satnav because last time i looked it was illegal to read a map while driving.

And unless your sticking to clearly signposted A roads, trying to memorise all the turns is going to be a nightmare. As for if you miss one ... And if you are going down B roads with no signposts, you've got to read every road name while waiting for your turn. And if the road name is obscured and or not easily visible, you can end up driving straight by the turn you need.

Its just so much easier to use a satnav if your going somewhere you've never been before.
 
I would second the recommendation for a Live unit of some kind, it's really useful if you are a high mileage driver. I've not had any technical problems with my 540 unit, compared to the OP above.
 
I have a Go 550 Live thing. It's pretty good, I don't know if it's more than I need, probably.
The live traffic thing really is good, though. Seems pretty accurate, not just in terms of distance/location of traffic, but also in the duration of the delay you're likely to experience by being sat in it.

Its rerouting leaves a little to be desired though. I have only accepted an alternate, "quicker" route once because of this. It told me there was a delay on the road i was currently on (M62 roadworks near Bradford) and would I like to go some other way it had decided was 12 mins quicker. It took me god knows where and added I reckon another 40 mins onto the journey - in addition to what it was telling me the M62 delay would have been.

Granted it was getting on for morning rush hour, but still... it never decided that it had made an error of judgement and the M62 really was the quicker way after all.

Haven't really used the google type searches on it, nor bluetooth since I swapped phones... but they're there if you need em.

It's still not got that up-to-date maps on it - few couple of years old roundabouts are missing... but mostly seems good.

At least it doesn't think the new section of A1 just south of York is all fields still :)
 
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