Garmin sat nav
hi,just bought a garmin camper sat nav,not sure when it says add length of vehicle if it means total length of car and caravan or just car length,sorry if this sounds silly but not sure ,thanks
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I would have thought that in the context of a sat nav it would be the unit overall length. If it were just the car length there would be no advanatage of having the Camper version over the standard one?
David
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Car+Caravan
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Trydan, just carry on following the book for the approach to Club sites it isn't up to following the correct route and got me in a bit of a pickle at St David's but it is very useful! I also got a bit alarmed going to Plymouth Sound when it told,me the
road wasn't suitable! I was on the correct road but it was a little disconcerting! That site is notorious for a dodgy approach but worth it when you get there!0 -
We have also got the Garmin Camper sat nav and it nearly foxed me then i thought of course it needs the full length and full weight of unit to work out a suitable route,It still is not 100%,i got a bit worried on one route ,but then a bus came the other way ,and he pulled in to let us pass
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If you go into settings, you should see the section for vehicle profile, tap on there and then on outfit, then the spanner you can change the dimensions there. On the task bar at the top when out of settings it will show either a car or the outfit, just
tap the icon and you can change from one to the other. I hope that helps.0 -
It definitely differentiates between car and caravan mode so with just the car you can follow it happily. I am however far more cautious now with the caravan in tow. One really weird thing with mine is the start off route from home with caravan it tries to take me a long way round to the main road via a single track road without passing places.That makes no sense at all because the shorter route is a much wider road. As I said please do check and follow the advised route to CC sites. A human being programmed these things
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It definitely differentiates between car and caravan mode so with just the car you can follow it happily. I am however far more cautious now with the caravan in tow. One really weird thing with mine is the start off route from home with caravan it tries
to take me a long way round to the main road via a single track road without passing places.That makes no sense at all because the shorter route is a much wider road. As I said please do check and follow the advised route to CC sites. A human being programmed
these things..If i change the "voice" to the Male it tends not to take me down little lanes
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So far I have failed to find the male voice!
Go to settings on your garmin press setting's, scroll to language and keyboard press, scroll to voice language press, scroll to top of page, you have british English James, Kate, and Serena hope this helps you.
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So far I have failed to find the male voice!
Go to settings on your garmin press setting's, scroll to language and keyboard press, scroll to voice language press, scroll to top of page, you have british English James, Kate, and Serena hope this helps you.
..Pippah
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Thank you I will try it again. This is my second Garmin and I was told there was only one voice option (female) on the first so hadnt even tried to look for a male voice on this model! I have noticed she has had French lessons on this model though!
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But who would I argue with?
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We are looking at Sat Navs and have a car and caravan. There seems to be two or three on the market do members have any particular Views.
Has anyone used aguri caravan and Motorhome system. It has speed camera detection, built in dash cam and other features?
Any thoughts appreciated.
Regards
Jacquibsox
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Thanks for re-opening this I'll be interested to see the results.
For what it's worth, we bought a new Garmin, with Smart traffic alerts, but not the caravan special model, this April, prior to going to France.
We updated its Western Europe maps days before going, but it still wasn't accurate, taking us into several cul-de-sacs where roads had been rebuilt, one of them obviously a year or two ago when they re-routed the main road out of a small town in the Loire area.
It tried to take us through a tiny box bridge under a railway that I'd have not wanted to take the car through by itself, if I wanted any wing mirrors, (not a massive 4x4, but a 2004 Volvo V70), let alone with a caravan behind, no matter how tiny!
It has two modes, " quickest" and "shortest" and as has been reported on the posher models, irrespective of which mode it's in, delighted in taking us round interesting tiny back routes through French towns, when a perfectly obvious more direct main road was there. We learned not to trust it without careful looking at the map, using it less & less as the holiday went on, though it's a handy way of checking where you are on the map when used with its route switched off.
It notifies of speed limits, and warns when you're even a fraction over, which in French towns where zones switch quite quickly should be useful, except that again, it was out of date, and often was at variance with the signs on the road, so almost more trouble than it was worth.
Incidentally, we found that its English voice made such a complete pig's ear of pronouncing French road and place names that we switched it into French language mode. It solves the problem then by simply not trying to pronounce any names, just tells you when to turn, sometimes rather late, sometimes way too early.
Overall, not as impressed as I hoped.
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Having just returned from a three week meander around Normandy & Brittany, my inbuilt TomTom had some "interesting" views on the 'fastest route. Some of the decisions it made were quite bizarre. Seen a few interesting housing estates though.
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Is there any merit in researching trucker satnavs? Presumably they don't take you round the tiny backways Cyberyacht & I recounted.
We're wondering what to replace our Garmin with, as frankly in France it was sometimes more hindrance than help.
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The new TomTom truck also has a facility to change vehicle type from a car, van/motorhome to a full sized HGV. My aging Start 60 with Camper maps installed has been pretty reliable. As BB says the loading of third party content like POI's leaves a lot to be desired which all goes back to the dumping of the Windows FAT32 file system some years ago. In the old days it was just drag and drop!
David
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Pippah, I prefer the female voice as they are never wrong - or so my other half tells me!
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Since I can't trust my built-in satnav (it was out of date the day the car rolled off the production line), plus it does daft things, I bought a Tom Tom 6200 which has all the bells and whistles but, most importantly, uses the "MyDrive" App to assist in route planning. It allows me to plan the route beforehand, researching bits on Google Maps Street View if necessary, and then transferring it to the Tom Tom by WiFi. So far, it has stuck absolutely to the selected route thereby avoiding any nasty surprises. Downside is that it does take time to set the route up in the first place.
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Agree that the “franglais” town pronunciations are laughable on the Garmin.
We have found occasional errors in the mapping despite regular updates and I wonder how the mapping suppliers are advised of changes. Perhaps in quieter parts of Europe there is just no mechanism for getting the road change information to the mapping people? On the other hand we have found the speed limit information very reliable and a great asset. On many motorhome like ours the speedo is difficult to read and not very accurate.
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Isn't that strange. I have just come back from Dartmouth - to East Yorkshire, via Broadway - almost 400 miles and, having made quite a few changes to the route initially selected by MyDrive, it followed my route exactly. I have also done this with numerous other routes I have loaded into it, and again, it stuck to my preferred route. The only anomaly that jumps out at me is that on my version of MyDrive, there doesn't seem to be the option to select vehicle size - wonder if this has anything to do with it?
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