Road Angel GPS

[djack]

Anyone got one of these road angel 7000?
A friend of mine has been telling me about the road angel 7000.I was wondering if anyone has tried one or is currently using one? What is the opinion on the road angel gps in use.


cheers djack.

 

[Davel]

I've got the 6000 and find it pretty good in my car, although it does very occasionally get a bit lost in city centres, or the vebal instructions can be a little confusing at times.

Otherwise pretty impressed and the speed camera database is good too.

 

[RAM-man]

not easy to fit on a bike .... as I was ask same by RA and explored this with them a few months ago as they need to supply a different adaptor plate.

The RA cradle has a 'herbert richter' style of adaptor plate that is used on the car mount and is needed to be used for getting onto a bike as it has a locating/locking slot. The plate needs either a two or four hole fixing pattern to achieve this result, more likely to be four hole as attached image shows.

IMV .. if its attached to RAM diamond base as shown, the adaptor plate which attaches to the RA cradle .. is its achilles heal.

RA now tells users to call me for bits including this plate but until RA sorts out this adaptor plate and supplies it or as a user you decide to drill diagonal holes in the adaptor plate supplied with the car mount so you can attach the diamond base ... its the only way to get it onto a bike.

 

[AxeGrinder]

not easy to fit on a bike .... as I was ask same by RA and explored this with them a few months ago as they need to supply a different adaptor plate.

The RA cradle has a 'herbert richter' style of adaptor plate that is used on the car mount and is needed to be used for getting onto a bike as it has a locating/locking slot. The plate needs either a two or four hole fixing pattern to achieve this result, more likely to be four hole as attached image shows.

IMV .. if its attached to RAM diamond base as shown, the adaptor plate which attaches to the RA cradle .. is its achilles heal.

RA now tells users to call me for bits including this plate but until RA sorts out this adaptor plate and supplies it or as a user you decide to drill diagonal holes in the adaptor plate supplied with the car mount so you can attach the diamond base ... its the only way to get it onto a bike.

There is now a handlebar adaptor available from RA

 

[wully]

I had one

Thought it would be good with the Memory Maps - which it was. Everything else about it was crap though.
Although not as crap as their customer service- feckin thing kept freezing up. Sent it back for repair and it seemed to work OK but I was well and truly hacked off with Road Angel in general by then so flogged it and got a Zumo.

 

[AxeGrinder]

I had one

Thought it would be good with the Memory Maps - which it was. Everything else about it was crap though.
Although not as crap as their customer service- feckin thing kept freezing up. Sent it back for repair and it seemed to work OK but I was well and truly hacked off with Road Angel in general by then so flogged it and got a Zumo.

Mine seems to work fine...can be troublesome in city streets...

I have to keep it plugged it tho, as my battery has a short life...

MM is gr8, and thats why I got RA...I used it on Lappy before getting RA...great software.

 

[RAM-man]

You may be in a minority, but if you're happy with it, then fine by me, you can get better for £279 .

FYI .. In the past two hours I have been offered 'job lot' of Quest 1 to add mount and power lead for a scoot/biker bundle, snap-em up, and will far less the RA, it be halved in fact.

The device is a re-badged Holux device as I posted in other link!. Its a car device which RA has been suggesting is for bikes (be it pedal or motorised), for several months I had RA telling customers that I can sort it out for them.

The 'bike' bracket off ebay is made by Herbert Richter (Germany) and can costs me under 5 euros. the cradle is its weakness.

Nuff said on this subject.

 

[Pugsley]

I have one.I use it in the car & on the Bike.The only gripe i have is you cant wire it in perminately (it only runs on 5 volts ) just run mine throught the 12 volt cigy thing. But this is based on price of Flee bay £100. fixed mine to a ram mount i used for my old Garmin street III.

 

[AxeGrinder]

I have one.I use it in the car & on the Bike.The only gripe i have is you cant wire it in perminately (it only runs on 5 volts ) just run mine throught the 12 volt cigy thing. But this is based on price of Flee bay £100. fixed mine to a ram mount i used for my old Garmin street III.

I dismantled the ciggy lighter bit and hard wired it to the battery, with the small transformer sealed in tape...I put a switch in the circuit so the LED doesn't run down the battery...

 

[Stan Pinn]

I used to sell these when i worked at Halfords, they are very relyable. The menus are better on garmins and tomtom's, but you get more for your money with a RA. Have you seen the 7000 Adventurer? comes with memory map preloaded, could be good if you go off road?

Stan

 

[AxeGrinder]

I used to sell these when i worked at Halfords, they are very relyable. The menus are better on garmins and tomtom's, but you get more for your money with a RA. Have you seen the 7000 Adventurer? comes with memory map preloaded, could be good if you go off road?

Stan

Stan,

I have a 7000 and it didn't come with memory map, the way I understood it was the machine is MM capable, as an add on (approx £50 each area...UK south, central, north). Biggest gripe is I understood it came with european road maps, but RA quoted me £99 for this recently!

I DL memory maps from my PC version...Does this mean I can get MM for my RA for free... Is there a place I can get maps for France and Italy?

 

[Stan Pinn]

There is a standard 7000 navigator and also a 7000 Adventurer, the adventurer has the memory map.

http://www.road-angel.co.uk/road_an...ce=RA_nav7ad&gclid=CPyx9vrlmZUCFQyI1Qod933UgA

 

[AxeGrinder]

There is a standard 7000 navigator and also a 7000 Adventurer, the adventurer has the memory map.

http://www.road-angel.co.uk/road_an...ce=RA_nav7ad&gclid=CPyx9vrlmZUCFQyI1Qod933UgA

Ahhh...I have the std Navigator 7000, not the Adventurer