I’m so fooked off with my Garmim sat nav after the fooker bounced me from jam to jam today and made me late for a meeting (again) I’ve decided to melt the fooker down and buy a new one
Key is the traffic updates and avoidance - any suggestions ???
To be honest, the best traffic update and avoidance systems are the OE stuff in my opinion. The one in my BMW (and now the Audi), even though you couldn’t put a full post code in it, ran rings around my top of the range tom tom for traffic updates and things like that.
I agree with Sean on the OE stuff.
Incidentally Sean, if you’re really stuck you can hit the panic button in the roof and speak to the nice people at BMW assist they will remotely program the sat nav with the full postcode for you! Haha, how cool is that!
Yeah Chris Audi oem is spot on.
So there you have it buy an Audi and arrive on time. 
So did you get an RS6 Avant? Is it the V10 Turbo Nutter one? Has it already been to MTM 
Yes, Yes and not quite yet
Tom Tom XXL, Big screen, good battery life and it’s not let me down yet.
Most helpful - I wanted to spend �200 and have ended up spending �40k just to get a decent Nav - Ta Sean :whistle:
TomTom XL Live
Got me around Europe for years now
I like their Itinerary Planning which avoids town centres if there is a bypass
Has reasonably good live services showing jams and then prompts with “Quicker Route Found”
[quote=chrisexigegt]
Most helpful - I wanted to spend �200 and have ended up spending �40k just to get a decent Nav - Ta Sean :whistle: [/quote]
In that case my idea maybe the most expensive of the lot, all you need is:-
- a map
- a wife
- earplugs.
[quote=sjw]TomTom XL Live
Got me around Europe for years now
I like their Itinerary Planning which avoids town centres if there is a bypass
Has reasonably good live services showing jams and then prompts with “Quicker Route Found”[/quote]
Certainly appears to be a great piece of kit, Steve, after having been guided round various areas of Europe by you twice now (approx 4500 miles in total) 
I would never in a million years have been able to plan such fantastic driving routes using my own SatNav
wish I could get full postcode sat nav in my Q7, its a pain in the arse compared to the Range Rover one which was much better.
I use Ovi maps in my Nokia-best I’ve used.
Sun, stars, compass and a decent sextant…
Sex in a tent!!! now that takes me back!!! 
It always hurt my back !!!
The OEM Sat Navs get a feed from the Radio on the traffic (I think its on the Clasic FM broadcast). This is what allows the system to reroute so effectivly.
The TomTom type device uses a web feed to get trafic data and this is usually done at set time intervals.
I have used both and OEM is much better, I am not sure if there is a single DIN Sat Nav with radio that can be fitted AM.
Best option could be a TomTom with the traffic service linked to a mobile phone with a good data package to stop the horific bills that can run up. It was the cost of the Data that stopped me using the TomTom live.