please help - vauxhall sat nav - speed camera poi's ?????

barks · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 05, 2006 Posts: 2

hi,
im new to all this, and have spent the last 10 years driving and reading maps!
i think sat nav is one of those things that you dont miss if you have never had it, but ive got it in my new car and now, 2 weeks later i couldnt do without it!

my new car is a vauxhall vectra estate with navman cd 70 color monitor sat nav.

the question is :-
as it uses cd to run can i download an updated or hacked version with speed camera poi's ?
also it dosent give me the option to enter a post code ?

any info would be appreciated

barks
Wink

mikealder · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:25 pm Post subject:

The CD70 is a decent nav system, I have used it a number of times in hire cars, unfortunatly even if you managed to "cook" your own CD and get the device to run with POI's added to the disk it has no capability to warn of a camera location.
All it can do is navigate to POI, great to find a petrol station, but useless for camera warnings. (I tried this and got nowhere).

The Postcode option on this device will support the first few digits, after that you have to refine the search by scrolling through the road options it presents, to be honest I find (found) it easier to enter the whole lot from scratch each time, the predictive text the unit uses is very good at limitting the selections made available to the user.

The one BIG PLUS point is the TMC data, I have never yet found a location in the UK where it doesn't work, its superb in use - far better than any other TMC device I have ever tried to be honest, so used correctly you shouldn't get stuck in a traffic jam - Mike

barks · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 05, 2006 Posts: 2

thanks for the info mike,
it does work very well indeed, its just a shame they didnt include the camera poi's.
now i have realised that i dont know weather to sell my hp ipaq rz 1710 gps ?
i also have a new road angel.

can you post stuff for sale on this site or should i stick to ebay?
regards
barks

mikealder · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:52 pm Post subject:

You can post things for sale that are sat nav related HERE - it looks like you still need a warning systemfor the cameras though - Mike

Nutty_Nut_01 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 21, 2005 Posts: 2

Hi barks,

Just on a slightly different subject......

Are your 12v outlets in your new vectra (one in the front, and one in the estate area) on all the time, or do they go on and off with the ignition ?

I like to leave my holster units, one for the gps (in the rear) and the other for the pda (suckered on the windscreen) permantly in the car, as they need resetting evertime if the power goes on and off.

Thanks in advance, if you can help.

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