GPS Recommendations

[ay8306]

This may have been asked before, but I am thinking about a portable GPS and looking for some recommendations. I leaning toward theGarmin 750. Anyone out there with this unit? Is there a consensus on Garmin vs. TomTom?

Thanks for the input.

 

[WaZZZZman]

I just purchased a Garmin 660 and it is really cool. Much better than I thought GPS technology had come from the last time I looked at getting one in my Mercedes. I have only had it a week but so far it is more than expected.

The problem I am having and I don’t know if it is because of Garmin or what, but I can not find a place to mount it. Have gotten suggestions but so far nothing has worked for me. I guess I am going to buy a ProClip and mount it one the trim as others have done. Kind of expensive over $80.00 now to my door.

The suction cup would not stay on the windshield, it kind of stuck, but would vibrate off when I drove. I even tried to put the little disk that comes with the device that has two sided tape on it on the dash, and on the aluminum trim and that was pathetic. The double sided tape would not stick long enough to even let me shut the damn door without falling off. The disk was brand new and seemed sticky when I pealed off the backing, but just would not stick to anything on the Zed. I cleaned and dried all areas I tried to stick it to, but it was all the same. :evil: So----- I would recommend the Garmin for it’s function, but the mount sucks as far as I am concerned. :thumbsdown:

 

[ay8306]

I guess I am going to buy a ProClip and mount it one the trim as others have done. Kind of expensive over $80.00 now to my door.

Wow, $80 is pretty steep as a percentage of the price of the GPS itself. Did you try mounting it under the dash like in this picture in your Vent Mount thread? I thought that looked clean and neat.

 

[enfield]

I have a Garmin Nuvi and love it. I think both the Garmin and the Tom Tom are both great. Depends on your needs and what kind of $ deal you can get, IMO. YMMV.

:withstupid:

 

[WaZZZZman]

I guess I am going to buy a ProClip and mount it one the trim as others have done. Kind of expensive over $80.00 now to my door.

Wow, $80 is pretty steep as a percentage of the price of the GPS itself. Did you try mounting it under the dash like in this picture in your Vent Mount thread? I thought that looked clean and neat.

Yes I did but the disk with the two sided tape on it would not stick to anything. It had a red color backing, which I took off. It seemed sticky, but would not stay on the car anywhere. I took the disk to Best Buy, they gave me another one, but the same story. I am about ready to put a screw in the middle to hold the disk to the car. In the place you talk about it would not show much and I do not think there is anything behind that I would bother if I put a screw there. Only problem is I still do not know if the cup would hold with a screw in the disk.

 

[pmeloche]

I have a Garmin Nuvi 650 and it works great. The suction mount works well on the windshield of the Z4 and the X5. With the 650, the name of streets are also spoken. That is one
feature that does not work terribly well. For instance, the street "Papa Giovanni XXIII" for pope John the 23rd. The french speakerine is actually trying to pronounce the roman
numeral as if it was a french word :lol: which makes for funny stuff but gives off distracting information.

I had a Nuvi 350 on my rental car which does not give street names and it was sufficient. I am trying to turn off the speaking of street names if that is possible.

IMO, for navigation purposes only the Nuvi 350 is more than enough.

Good luck.

 

[Mattt]

I find TomTom much more intuitive - my Dad has a basic Garmin unit and it's crap - the navigation isn't great.

 

[Aebous]

I have a nuvi 750, it's a great little unit. Much better than my old (and bigger) Magellan. It found me a nice backroad way to my friends place that shaved alot of time off the trip due to less traffic. Though I will say the GPS pissed me off today, started taking me the wrong way to an address. Literally the wrong way, not a detour/alternate could be faster route. Nope had me going south when I should of went north a block to get to the address. I'll have to play around with it more. I could of punched in the wrong address though, or with vegas adding 30 roads a week it could of just not had the address loaded in the system. Everywhere's else I've used it (highway and in city) it's been spot on.

I'd recommend it to anyone. I also recommend the ProClip mount. I puchased one tanks to Shipkillers advice and it's great. I got just the mount, not the adapter. Getting the mount to go just under the aluminum trim was annoying, the little plastic lever they give you IMO sucks. But you can make it work. I stuck the black disk thinger on the mount then just used the suction cup piece to connect it to the mount. Works great, even withstands hard driving.