Another pointless thread

I updated my Oz maps on my TomTom and realised they charge VAT, even to customers outside of the EU. After some polite emails, they refunded the VAT.

Awfully nice people.

I fell foul because Adobe sales are based in Ireland with VAT at 23%. Apparently the rule is you pay VAT at the point of sale rate.

I bought a Sat Nav when my wife came out with, when I asked for directions in Scotland, "I can't navigate, I'm too busy looking at the sights"

We had some fun with the sat nav a few weeks ago whilst sat eating lunch in the car, tried all the languages and all the voices.

Complete waste of time as we eventually set it back to the default English and UK female voice, no way was the wife going to have a bloke telling her where to go

You mean you have to update it I thought that was just for when a new road was built

The voice on my sat-nav has Tourette's

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I still prefer a map.
Sat-nav doesn't find the little single track roads with a precipitous drop on one side and a sheer rock face on the other.

Though ours did navigate us along single track roads and through a ford (in a Ford ) last October, to get us from small village in Hertfordshire to the church in an even smaller village in the same county. It could have taken an A road or two, but took the direct route. At least the underneath of the car got a good wash.

We still use maps for surveying an area for places to visit, but then program the SatNav for the actual journey. So far, she has selected the best route every time, even the little known ones that locals might use.

When we come home though I deviate to my favourite route and after a few seconds of "turn around when possible" she adapts very quickly and takes me the way I want.

An exciting time was had when navigating through the sandbanks off the Norfolk coast in thick fog when the "powers that be" decided to to switch off the GPS system. Very thankful for Radar that night

On an old Navigo sat nav the voice used to go into Marvin the Paranoid Android mode and you could almost hear the tut when it said "Re-routing"

We have nicked named the female voice on our Ford Sat-nav Marvina, as she is sounds so miserable.
When His Nibs first had a Prius many many years ago the kids called it Kitt, because it was black, talked to you and did a lot of stuff for itself. It ended up being Kitty though, as we liked the female voice more.

That female voice must be why I let here guide me when I already know where I'm going. A bit sad really.....

His Nibs does that too. Drives me mad. He goes to the same place every week to play with a band, and takes the same route to get there, but always turns on the sat-nav. Same when visiting our son in Friesland. There are only two ways to get there, and we have to choose before we leave home, so why have Marvina moaning away at us? I usually mute her.

He also always plugs in his iPod, even for a five minute trip to the DIY store. Grrrr.

Oh yes they do link

If you want some fun, take your TomTom flying!

It is awfully amusing to listen to it tell you to turn at the next junction. For a few minutes at least.

I didn't think they had any in the Netherlands