Which Sat Nav should I buy...

[David Nimrod]

The situation is this:-

I have a Tom Tom 530 in the car, I like the TT interface and I know it inside out.

I got a BMW Navigator II with my bike and I don't like it much, it just doesn't feel as good to me as the TT in terms of ease of use.

I'm totally baffled by MapSource... I'm not very techy but I do figure most things out. Except MapSource...

It's just totally counter intuitive to me

So I'm thinking of selling the Navigator II and the 530 and getting a TomTom Rider 2 for the bike and the car.

Which sounds like an elegant solution to me

But then I see everyone on the Garmin side of things... and read about TT power cable issues...

What's the score...

 

[High-Tower]

FWIW as another non techy person I've got just what you propose, a TT Rider2 for the bike and car. Had it almost from the date the Rider2 came out and its been absolutely fine. A pal of mine uses one too with no worries.

Haven't heard about power cable issues with Rider2, just the arcing problem on the mounting bracket with Rider1. Might do some reading on here.

Or not, since I can't worry about something I don't know about.

 

[gavb0]

High Tower
I have a tt 2 and would love to like it but I have had a nightmare with it trying to get a phone to stay connected to the tt2 see my past threads but i am trying to use the q2 scala with it ,As a sat nav it is the dogs but the whole scala thing has done my head in.

 

[High-Tower]

High Tower
I have a tt 2 and would love to like it but I have had a nightmare with it trying to get a phone to stay connected to the tt2 see my past threads but i am trying to use the q2 scala with it ,As a sat nav it is the dogs but the whole scala thing has done my head in.

I'm so non techy, if I want to make a phone call I take my lid off and hold the phone up to my ear. Never bothered with the scala. The Rider2 just sits on the bars and I glance at it when needed. The voice prompts drive me nuts when I use it in my beloveds tin box although she loves them.

 

[andyclift]

I have had two TT Rider Mk 1, which both failed and after a lot of hassle with Tomtom they eventually sent me a Mark 2 - which has also failed.

I have also used a Garmin 12 (VERY old) and a Garmin 2720 which was perfect until it suffered from the fault of being nicked. Then bought a Zumo which is in a different class to Rider all together.

- Both will get you from A to B but Garmin is much better when A to B wants to be via C D and E.

- Tomtom has nothing to match Garmin's Mapsource PC software, POI Loader and Web Updater - unless you count the shareware quality Tomtom Home.

- Zumo has audio in and out plus Bluetooth which makes it useable with comms systems and Bluetooth. Tomtom limits you to Bluetooth

- Garmin has an input for external antenna which is useful if you want to use it in a vehicle with "screened" screen. Tomtom hasn't.

- Rider has often suggested I turn where it is not permitted (in a truck that was a real pain). It has also suggested going the wrong way on one way streets. Zumo never has.

- The included maps in the Rider will get you across Germany. Those in Zumo will get you almost to Turkey.

- When the battery fails in the Zumo just buy a new one and clip it in. When it fails on the Tomtom send the whole thing back to Holland.

- The Zumo is a little more expensive and does not have a Bluetooth headset (not a problem if you want to use something like an Autocom which, I think is a better solution) but it does come with the car bracket with speaker and car charger (which, of course, is not a problem if you don't have a car.

- From my own experience of service from both companies, Garmin is among the best I have experienced and I would not buy another Tomtom under any circumstances.

 

[ianran]

I lived in a residential estate in Milton Keynes and at least once a week we would have large lorries pull up outside our house having been directed to an industrial site by Tom Tom's