Posted on 30/11/2016 12:52
E Buyer have a TomTom Start 60 at a good price at the moment. It has a 6 inch screen. I expect it has been discontinued by TomTom but for anyone thinking of buying a new sat nav it might be worth a look.
David
Edit 05/04/2017 - The link is no longer showing the Start 60 which I assume has sold out.
Posted on 01/12/2016 23:35
We have a start sixty (4yrs) and the last map update this year made it very unreliable as to routes on several occasions, on one journey it took us through a housing estate with speed humps,then put us back on the road we had just come off 2miles further on
and it was not because we had "missed" the route instuctions!!
We now have the Garmin C/van&camper ,got it from Aldi
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Write your comments here... When was this on offer in Aldi please? Recently?
Posted on 04/04/2017 15:51
I've always used Garmin.
To me the major differentiator was a pc based route planning app, used to be called City Navigator, now known as basecamp.
Its free. Also if you purchase a satnav with lifetime maps, every three months you get a free map update both for the satnav & basecamp.
I never ever enter a destination into the satnav and follow it, they all make stupid mistakes, like going through housing estate with speed bumps to bring you out a few hundred yards up the road.
Plan your journey with basecamp, let it plot a route, then go over it closely looking for the stupid mistakes, correct them then download it onto your satnav.
Then you know where you're going with no surprises.
Posted on 04/04/2017 18:39
We have the Start 60 and we're not too impressed.
Map updates have always been a difficult affair, being painfully slow and often ending with an error message, meaning either start again or give up in frustration.
The fact that the inbuilt memory is so small that the first update will not fit and you have to chose which bits you want is just a joke.
Ours has not functioned correctly for a good while now - the screen suddenly flits through the various memories, as though the buttons are being presed and we have to work back through them to the map display. This can happen several times in succession at times.
When it decides on a particular route, but we decide to go a different way, the TomTom constantly tries to make us go to its chosen route and will spend the next 20 to 30 minutes telling us to turn off the road or to "turn around where possible". Our previous sat nav (a very cheap and basic TT) would just accept that we were going a different way and re-plan the route.
Only plus point is the ability to input lat-long positions for sites in France (as they don't have post codes). This is a long-winded process but is usually spot on and takes you right to the site entrance.
I'm going to try a different product next time. Probably Garmin.
Posted on 04/04/2017 19:45
I've got the Start 60 and been really pleased with it. I update on a quarterly basis which takes a bit of time but then operates fine. Had it for 2 years now and used in Spain and France as well as UK. As you say lat-long input really useful when abroad. At end of month off to Holland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland,France,Luxembourg and Belgium so fingers crossed still works fine.
Posted on 04/04/2017 18:39 by IanHWe have the Start 60 and we're not too impressed.
Map updates have always been a difficult affair, being painfully slow and often ending with an error message, meaning either start again or give up in frustration.
The fact that the inbuilt memory is so small that the first update will not fit and you have to chose which bits you want is just a joke.
Ours has not functioned correctly for a good while now - the screen suddenly flits through the various memories, as though the buttons are being presed and we have to work back through them to the map display. This can happen several times in succession at times.
When it decides on a particular route, but we decide to go a different way, the TomTom constantly tries to make us go to its chosen route and will spend the next 20 to 30 minutes telling us to turn off the road or to "turn around where possible". Our previous sat nav (a very cheap and basic TT) would just accept that we were going a different way and re-plan the route.
Only plus point is the ability to input lat-long positions for sites in France (as they don't have post codes). This is a long-winded process but is usually spot on and takes you right to the site entrance.
I'm going to try a different product next time. Probably Garmin.
Posted on 05/04/2017 00:05
Ours has not functioned correctly for a good while now - the screen suddenly flits through the various memories, as though the buttons are being pressed and we have to work back through them to the map display. This can happen several times in succession at times.
Ian
We have also had this problem although for some reason it eventually calms down the longer you go through the journey. I had the habit of setting the route the night before and the following morning using the previous destination option for the route. When I set the route immediately before setting off it tends not to happen so much. I have not really investigated why this happens, probably needs a reset.
I should really think about a new sat nav but am reluctant to buy another Garmin as the one I had previously was terrible. I will have to have a look at the TomTom range and see what ones now accept the camper maps that I already have loaded on to my micro SD card.
David
DavidKlyne
Motorhomer from Buckinghamshire