Which GPS unit?
Instructor
Joined: Nov 2006
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From: Dothan Alabama
need to look at your needs
I got one after my wife's jeep gave me the bug, her jeep has the multimeia works with dvd and everything else. After taking some short trips, with it, it was awesome, very nice to have.
I bought a tom tom go 720 on clearance it was a demo model, so it does not hold a charge. Very nice but like everything else its just a tool, do not buy a cadillac unless you need all the bells and whistles.
I freakquently take cross country trips, the tom tom I have seems to have very good road maps, but if your only going to use locally, then maybe something else would be better.
My 720 has not failed, me always found what I was looking for.
Driven with it from florida- texas, both I 20 and I 10 routes, has convienant things, will take some work, you will need to program your home address in it, then you can just push two buttons and it will navigate you home, very good as well if you change your route on the move automatically recalculates the route fairly accurate on time.
I will eventually upgrade my vette and one ton truck to in dash models to clean up my dash in both of them.
Then the old truck will inherit the portable tom tom.
I bought a tom tom go 720 on clearance it was a demo model, so it does not hold a charge. Very nice but like everything else its just a tool, do not buy a cadillac unless you need all the bells and whistles.
I freakquently take cross country trips, the tom tom I have seems to have very good road maps, but if your only going to use locally, then maybe something else would be better.
My 720 has not failed, me always found what I was looking for.
Driven with it from florida- texas, both I 20 and I 10 routes, has convienant things, will take some work, you will need to program your home address in it, then you can just push two buttons and it will navigate you home, very good as well if you change your route on the move automatically recalculates the route fairly accurate on time.
I will eventually upgrade my vette and one ton truck to in dash models to clean up my dash in both of them.
Then the old truck will inherit the portable tom tom.
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Instructor
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 145
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From: Texarkana AR
A friend of mine at work loaned me his cheapo Garmin Street Pilot GPS just to see how it works. I have to say that now I REALLY have to have one! 
That thing is super cool. I can remember lots of times that I wished I had one.
That thing is super cool. I can remember lots of times that I wished I had one.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Oct 2007
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From: It's true money can't buy happiness, but it is more comfortable crying in a Corvette than on a bicyc
St. Jude Donor '13
Here's my luck. Spent time last night and lots this afternoon on the stoopid arrow mod. The interface you down load on the net is in french. It wouldn't install no matter what I tried. Gave up. Well I decided I would update my TT One V3. A new update was out. Downloaded it and I'll be damned, the new update now allows you to swap the arrow for a variety of different vehicles. Even a motorcycle. I had already installed a Purple Vette I found on the site you posted and it was also in the folder. Since I have a Torch Red Vette I have to make my own icon.
So I wasted hours on something they gave me as an update. I could have made my icon instead. So everyone with a TomTom there is a cool update available.
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Instructor
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 145
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From: Texarkana AR
Well, I did it! I just pulled the trigger on a refurbished Garmin nuvi 750 for $159.00. It looks like it has all the features I wanted, and then some. Hopefully it will be all that I'm hoping for.
Instructor
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 144
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From: MI
Here's my luck. Spent time last night and lots this afternoon on the stoopid arrow mod. The interface you down load on the net is in french. It wouldn't install no matter what I tried. Gave up. Well I decided I would update my TT One V3. A new update was out. Downloaded it and I'll be damned, the new update now allows you to swap the arrow for a variety of different vehicles. Even a motorcycle. I had already installed a Purple Vette I found on the site you posted and it was also in the folder. Since I have a Torch Red Vette I have to make my own icon.
So I wasted hours on something they gave me as an update. I could have made my icon instead. So everyone with a TomTom there is a cool update available.
So I wasted hours on something they gave me as an update. I could have made my icon instead. So everyone with a TomTom there is a cool update available.
On the GPS. I have a TOM TOM 1 XL. Really like it. We put ours down just in front of the Ashtray.
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