Sat Navs?

Rich in Vancouver wrote: We have a Magellan that does the job. The biggest downside is you can't download optional voices.
My brother in law has Ozzie Osborne on his. That gets you prompts like, "You've gone the wrong fu**ing way!"
That catches your attention!.
BTW: no matter what make you have be sure to update it regularly. Found that out the hard way!

Frankly the voices on the tomtom are a bit of a gimmick. I've got them all and after a while of playing with different ones I always ended up back using a normal women's voice.
Mainly because the jokey voices get unfunny pretty quickly, and end up just being irritating!

I've got a Tomtom and have a Brodit bracket which mounts on the centre air vent and the Tomtom permanent mount. I'll take a picture later and upload it.

I've also got Sir Brian of Blessed as my Tomtom voice, yes he's a nutter but actually his diction makes it a really easy to hear. The electronic lady still kicks in for the Live traffic updates.

andy1970h wrote: I've got a Tomtom and have a Brodit bracket which mounts on the centre air vent and the Tomtom permanent mount. I'll take a picture later and upload it.....

Are they available for RHD cars ??
I've got one for my LHD MGF a couple of years ago and recently found that one is cambered and looking to the left.

Seen from below. No option to alter the angle. (SatNav is a Navigon with specific mount, different to TomTom)

I've always been a Garmin girl

:oops: didnt do that. To be honest, I didnt like the idea of having it as a permanent fixture on the dash anyway. I think a removable device might be the way to go.

rog1963 wrote: :oops: didnt do that. To be honest, I didnt like the idea of having it as a permanent fixture on the dash anyway. I think a removable device might be the way to go.

I quite liked the bracket that fits in the cd slot of your stereo that Leigh Ping posted a video of.

David Aiketgate wrote:

rog1963 wrote: :oops: didnt do that. To be honest, I didnt like the idea of having it as a permanent fixture on the dash anyway. I think a removable device might be the way to go.

I quite liked the bracket that fits in the cd slot of your stereo that Leigh Ping posted a video of.

Reasonably priced on ebay too.
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=tomtom+cd+holder&_sacat=0&_dmpt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&_odkw=small+cargo+net&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313

I tried to buy the satnav holder above but paypal advised against it? So... I may as well show you my lil homemade satnav mod. I don't trust the window sucker to hold and it gets in my view of the road. This little mod is made from an old copper tv aerial and it's solid after 4 days trialling. :broon: . The velcro stops it bouncing and scratching and it sits nicely over the clock. There's a clock on the satnav, so there's no loss. It removes as easily as it goes up.

It works but not too elegant!
Here is a pic of the IPOD mount I had in my TR7. I used wire ties to attach it to the vents
and it worked really well. Cost was about 10 bucks.
I'm sure there is a similar rig sized for satnavs.
BTW: My satnav (Magellan) died the last time we had it out so now I don't have to worry about
where to mount it!

Leigh Ping wrote:

Looks like a little handbag!