What's the best deal for £100

robbooth · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 18, 2006 Posts: 162

Right got to get a new sat nav for company use - can spend ~£100 what's the best deal out there at the moment. Supplier has got to be able to give a VAT receipt so eBay's out of the question Smile

I thought this was quite a good offer?

AliOnHols · Pocket GPS Verifier Joined: Oct 15, 2008 Posts: 1936

My personal feeling is that I'd not buy anything with the Simplified Menu, so I wouldn't buy it.

I'd prefer the XL IQ Routes™ edition Europe Refurbished from the TomTom Outlet store. http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/products/tomtom-outlet-store/
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robbooth · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 18, 2006 Posts: 162

mikealder · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 8:46 pm Post subject:

What about the XL IQ Live for £94:99 see Here but the VAT will take the price slightly over your budget - Mike

robbooth · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 18, 2006 Posts: 162

Cheers Mike, that's a good deal, especially since it's got the live services & europe and I don't mind adding a bit of my own money to it. Do you think this would have a LMG with it?

Just out of interest, is there a great deal of difference with the simplified menu system? - I'm used to using my own 940 and the wifes 550.

mikealder · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:13 pm Post subject:

Give them a ring in the morning to find out about the LMG as I am unsure as to what the current status is.

Simplified menu means things such as Itinerary Planning is AWOL, some of the other options such as Warn When Near POI have been added back in but were missing when the devices were launched with the dumbed down menu.

The XL IQ Live has a standard menu, the only thing missing is the TTS which is a real shame, with TTS the XL IQ would have been one of the best produced, shame that for the UK market they ommitted this feature - Mike

robbooth · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 18, 2006 Posts: 162

Went ahead and bought it as they seemed to be selling quick - the company's paying for the device so as long as the maps are reasonably up to date it'll be ok, I'll argue the point with TT when it arrives if they are quite old.

Good spot, cheers Mike.

Rob.

UPDATE:

Email from TotalPDA:
TomToms LMG is not applicable to any of our refurbished models.

I'll let you know the map version when it arrives.

mccririck · Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 7:56 pm Post subject:

I really like my XL2.

DennisN · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:14 am Post subject:

robbooth · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 18, 2006 Posts: 162

robbooth · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 18, 2006 Posts: 162

Right, received the item Wednesday afternoon and when I tried it the touch screen seemed miles out of calibration - the centre of the screen I would say was somewhere below the spacebar and cancel keys! I spent an hour swearing and messing about with it (reading about screen calibration) but had to go off on my travels. Disappointed to say the least! Sad

Came to it this morning to actually attempt the screen calibration and it's working perfectly! Confused but happier

Not yet connected to the PC and at power up it has 8.420 as the app and 840.2562 as the map, so a quite old (Nov '09). TomTom have also stated that 'since refurbished products are sold at a discount the LMG is not applicable'.

Cosmetically the unit is absolutely perfect and the sound is ten times better than that out of my 940. Bit disappointed with the age of the maps / no LMG but hey ho, you can't have everything. Hopefully the touch screen issue won't reappear. Pleased with the price for a Live device with 12 mths of services and European mapping.

Guivre46 · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:33 am Post subject:

I got a refurb 550 last Feb. The map was 840, I contacted TT and said I'd hoped for something a bit more recent and they put a newer map in my account to download. So have a go...
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