Tom Tom Rider 400

[Davy F]

I'm considering buying the above system as I just don't like or can't get my thick head around Basecamp (why why why did Garmin dump Mapsource ?).

But....... I love listening to music on the move and it seems the TT400 doesn't come with an MP3 player built in. I presume I'll have to buy said MP3 device and be able to run it through the TT for my listening pleasure ? The guy in the shop where I was going to buy off was of no help, so I'll ask the experts here for their help.

Any other foibles I'll have to watch out for/consider before buying into the Tom Tom experience ?

 

[mcinlb]

I bought a TT 400 and it is a great nav unit, BUT you can, I believe, connect your smart phone for live updates and maybe music.

The problem I have had is the lack of facility to mark a waypoint as visited. This was a real pain when your take the wrong road / diverted etc.. What it requires you do is to delete all waypoints up to your next on the route and it then recalculates from there. It is very fast at recalculating , much faster than my 'old' V5 TT.

They are working on software up dates as many have commented on the above to TT via their forum.

A definite plus is on the route side bar it shows petrol stations and distance to on your chosen route .

 

[Davy F]

Thanks for the reply. I guess there's not too many new takers of this unit yet. I'm not rushing into taking the plunge yet as I'm sure others may chime in with more wisdom. There's quite a good write up in this months MC International.

 

[sagalout]

I have the 400 and have recently done a Euro tour on it.

It's not perfect, and some of the logic and UI is just plain annoying, but overall it's an improvement over the old Rider.

The waypoint issue was't a problem for me - just don't turn the device off properly between stops (let it sleep instead). This worked fine for me, and you can delete a waypoint at any time. What you can't seem to be able to do is add a waypoint and order it mid ride like you could with the old one. Sometimes the logic worked it out and just put it in the correct route, other times it just added it to the end of the ride, which was completely useless.

As mentioned, the timeline with approaching petrol station sis really good, and takes a lot of the petrol stress away from long trips, although even that is slightly buggy as they don't all appear until you get fairly close, meaning you sometimes stop to refill as it doesn't look like there is a another one before the end of the ride, then you ride further and they start popping up. Not the end of the world, but just annoyingly inconsistent.

On the plus side, updates seem to be quite frequent, and you can at least add routes to it without a memory card now! Definitely came to market in an under developed state though.

As for music, not sure on that as I just connect my iPhone direct to the Sena