Got new job, at daughter's school - h'ray! I live on Romney Marsh, my daughter is 12, my partner is...
Got new job, at daughter's school - h'ray! I live on Romney Marsh, my daughter is 12, my partner is a racing driver and racing instructor. My neighbours are mostly sheep, ducks, swans, all manner of wild birds, rabbits and hares.
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My partner already had a Tom Tom Go, but sometimes we both needed help. He travels all round the country and recently had to plan routes for a new car launch from many dealer locations in the South East, with a Tom Tom he was able to plan the routes to perfection, detailing mileage, junctions, even speed traps.
The Tom Tom One is very small and compact, and can even be used when walking, especially around large towns. A while ago, my exhaust fell off, I was wondering what the noise was, and when I looked underneath my car there was the problem - detached exhaust! While I sounded really good, it didn't really go with a Renault Megane, I sounded more like a jet taking off! Anyhow, there I was in Tesco's car park having not a clue where the nearest exhaust
fitter was, so I put 'exhaust fitters' into my Tom Tom and it showed me a list of the nearest. The garage I found wasn't far away, and they did a really good job.
This 'find' facility is really useful. On another occasion I was stuck in a very long queue on the M25 with my young daughter and her friend, bound for Cheshire, we were all getting rather desperate for a toilet! So again, I put petrol stations into a search, was able to leave the motorway and drove straight to a petrol station at which we were very relieved! If I had not had the Tom Tom I could have left the motorway and driven for miles on spec, similarly, I was able to rejoin the motorway without losing any time.
The Tom Tom has a touch screen and is so easy to use; you can enter postcodes, house numbers, streets or just towns (where it will take you to the town centre). At night the screen can be dimmed but it is still as easy to read. It can also keep you awake although I would recommend stopping if you are really tired! I was driving back from Oulton Park in Cheshire to Kent, it was around 1:00 am and I was becomming a little jaded. I had been travelling the M20, in the dark, for some 19 miles, there were many vehicles travelling in the other direction, no doubt from Folkestone or Dover, but I was just punching away into the darkness. I wasn't really aware of my position, who needs a sat nav to drive in a straight line? Then suddenly I was snapped out of my reverie "Exit ahead" she said, very loudly. Goodness, that made me jump. Even though I then knew exactly where I was, I kept the Tom Tom on so I would have someone to talk to!
This particular model also has French maps, very useful to find duty free shops and hyper markets. Also you can download maps for virtually anywhere you need to drive, both in the UK and Europe. Ok, they do sometimes lead you up the garden path, or under low bridges, but with a bit of sense, and you can run through the route before you go, they are an absolute boon.
Just yesterday I thought I would see just exactly how accurate my speedo is. The car I was driving was involved in an accident and we had had it rebuilt. The mph on a sat nav is always very accurate and I found that my Polo was 1 mph out at 40 and 50 mph, and 2 mph out at 60 mph. My Mazda on the other hand is spot on right up to - well, right up to as fast as I have driven it!
My Mother reckons that if she'd had one of these, she wouldn't have got lost as much as she used to - I rather think she may have driven straight up a lamppost as she was never the best of drivers. But anyone with a bit of sense can use one of these, you do not have to take you eyes off the road, they can be positioned just below your line of sight - to the left or the right of the steering wheel, and with just a bit of time and concentration, it becomes second nature to glance at the screen when approaching a large junction, as it always tells you which lane to be in, and in which direction your next turn is.
There are many, many features that you can programme into the Tom Tom - speed traps, post boxes, petrol stations, points of interest, any type of shop - some wag friend of ours once programmed in brothels! You would be amazed at how often the alarm went off to indicate one or more houses of ill-repute!! The Tom Tom even guided us to Fred Dibnah's grave in Bolton.
You must remember that sometimes the postcode given for say a theme park or race circuit is actually the postcode of the offices of that facility, not necessarily the car park entrance, but again, with a bit of commonsense, when you near your destination, there are invariably road signs to guide you direct to the entrance.
Go on - get one - they're great fun and you will wonder what you ever did without one!
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Great review, i also own this item, and i agree with everything you said!
BadCompany77 06.11.2007 22:07
Good review, can we swap neighbours ; ) x
Collingwood21 04.11.2007 17:13
I like the fact that you can use this as a pedestrian as well as a driver. I don't have cause to drive far very often, but I often have to navigate around on foot - this could be useful!
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