Well I used the SPIII for the first time in anger over the weekend. just over 600 miles in two days all aided by the GPS on a premarked route done from Mapsource.
On the whole very pleased but it did tend to do some rather odd things, via points for example?
What are they?
I was not aware that when I was doing the route on Marpsource I had added any? But over the 300 mile first leg there were 12 of them?
The odd thing was that it seemed to send me off down a road that was clearly off route just to do a U-turn after the via point had been reached.
But this is the best one and hopefully someone can explain why. Going down a dual carriageway to an island, GPS tells me to take the fifth exit. But in doing so it would bring me back in the opposite direction again?
So I do it anway just in case there might have been a turning and you are not allowed to cross the lanes in order to make the turn.
But no? I am now traveling back the opposite way to the next island where the GPS now says take the third exit.
Yep you've guessed it back down the same dual carriageway that I was going 1/2 hour before hand?
BUT this time when I come to the island that the GPS first told me to take the fifth exit now tells me to take the third exit which is the correct one? Please explain someone?
Then the headset decided to pack in after just a few miles of leaving home but after a stop I found it was a bad connection in the jack plug. With the headset back in action it made the journey so much easier not having to keep looking at the screen.
The cable from the headset to the GPS has got to be changed for a coiled cable. Job for Mr Farmer I cry
The standard straight cable moves about to much and when at speed, (anything above 80mph) it acts like a skipping rope whipping about all over the place. It also frets on the tank and has resulted in lots of very fine scratches on the top of the tank. All polished out ok, but they could be avoided I think with the coiled cable idea keeping a little tension on it.
On the whole a great piece of kit. To take us from Worcs to Maryport not using the motorways and using only B roads and white roads without looking on a map is fantastic. Mind you it did take us down some "very" dusty tracks at times!!
BTBR
On the whole very pleased but it did tend to do some rather odd things, via points for example?
What are they?
I was not aware that when I was doing the route on Marpsource I had added any? But over the 300 mile first leg there were 12 of them?
The odd thing was that it seemed to send me off down a road that was clearly off route just to do a U-turn after the via point had been reached.
But this is the best one and hopefully someone can explain why. Going down a dual carriageway to an island, GPS tells me to take the fifth exit. But in doing so it would bring me back in the opposite direction again?
So I do it anway just in case there might have been a turning and you are not allowed to cross the lanes in order to make the turn.
But no? I am now traveling back the opposite way to the next island where the GPS now says take the third exit.
Yep you've guessed it back down the same dual carriageway that I was going 1/2 hour before hand?
BUT this time when I come to the island that the GPS first told me to take the fifth exit now tells me to take the third exit which is the correct one? Please explain someone?
Then the headset decided to pack in after just a few miles of leaving home but after a stop I found it was a bad connection in the jack plug. With the headset back in action it made the journey so much easier not having to keep looking at the screen.
The cable from the headset to the GPS has got to be changed for a coiled cable. Job for Mr Farmer I cry
The standard straight cable moves about to much and when at speed, (anything above 80mph) it acts like a skipping rope whipping about all over the place. It also frets on the tank and has resulted in lots of very fine scratches on the top of the tank. All polished out ok, but they could be avoided I think with the coiled cable idea keeping a little tension on it.
On the whole a great piece of kit. To take us from Worcs to Maryport not using the motorways and using only B roads and white roads without looking on a map is fantastic. Mind you it did take us down some "very" dusty tracks at times!!
BTBR
I always check the pictogram of the junction on the display before I commit now, the ‘take the 3rd exit’ stuff is often wrong.
