Where has your SatNav sent you? (1 Viewer)

[motor roamin]

The only thing my wife gets wrong is when navigating in the USA we now have American right's/lefts and English ones apparently they are different which is a bugger as we used to live in the US and visit regularly with no sat nav I have now got used to clarifying is that an American right or an English one, sod all to do with driving on the other side of the road she doesn't do it in Europe at all, makes us laugh though

 

[motor roamin]

Our 'Hong Kong Fuee' special sent us on a 'fastest' route from the Southbound M5 to the Balloon Festival..............Via the centre of Bristol at lunchtime.

Idiot machine! And idiot me for following it.

At least you couldn't go fast........if at all that is

 

[Tootles]

At least you couldn't go fast........if at all that is

No, but it took me three days to remove the squashed beggars from under the wheel arches. Bl**dy place. Never seen so many side streets pretending to be a major highway.

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[Trikeman]

The Russian bird going on about none existent scammeras gets on my nerves but one day there will be one tucked away somewhere.

Lussian, you have a Lussian Blird......... I am stuck with Beigjing Bernadet. Can the voices be changed, and do they then come with the regional dialect? Maybe I would prefer a Russian lady - as long as she is as accurate.

Trikeman.

 

[Trikeman]

Our 'Hong Kong Fuee' special sent us on a 'fastest' route from the Southbound M5 to the Balloon Festival..............Via the centre of Bristol at lunchtime.

Idiot machine! And idiot me for following it.

Just 500yds or so over the bridge to the next junction and you would have got to us 3 hrs earlier Toots.

Never mind - you received the most generous helpings of my barbecue cuisine.

Trikeman.

 

[Tootles]

Just 500yds or so over the bridge to the next junction and you would have got to us 3 hrs earlier Toots.

Never mind - you received the most generous helpings of my barbecue cuisine.

Trikeman.

...............................And very appreciative of it we were to, Young Sir! To be lost is bad, but to be lost and hungry, and be slipped a cremated banger that had fallen on the grass................Words cannot express my thanks.

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[LAM]

Yes ours did that! Luckily stopped short of hitting it! That was before we swapped our Garmin for a Chinese Trucker satnav. (or maybe WHY we swapped it)
Wyn

Likewise, bought the Chinese satnav (thank you to Lunarman for all his help !).
However, recently we were to travel to the ' Last Bring and Buy' in Cheshire. The obvious route for us was to head toward Cirencester, Glos, M5.................. The satnav wanted to route us toward the M4, Bristol direction and then the M5 ? I'm sure there was a reason but it didn't make sense to us.

Nope.......funny though I can trust the wife's navigation..........not many men would admit that........but it's true

How many out there have many a story with the 'female/map reading ability 'thing'?

 

[Langtoftlad]

Just yesterday;
Yorkshire Dales... Though to be fair the restriction was 7'6" and my van is 7'4"
!
... though I did think I'd put in 8' as width... obviously Chinese SatNag knows best (and it did, with some breathing in).

 

[Tootles]

How many out there have many a story with the 'female/map reading ability 'thing'?

That's the bestest thing about satnav. I don't get as many black eyes since the wife stopped reading the road atlas upside down.

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[reckless]

It's tried,but Carolyn has map on her lap just to check things like that.

Which maps have that much detail, please? low bridges etc

 

[Puddleduck]

That's the bestest thing about satnav. I don't get as many black eyes since the wife stopped reading the road atlas upside down.

I turn the map so it faces the way we are going - so if travelling south the map is upside down - that way I get rights and lefts correct without thinking about it. I can read upside down easy enough..... am upside down map confuses the hell out of my Dad but it's something I have always done. Going through London (before the M25) I was navigating him through London, we'd already crossed Tower Bridge, he glanced over and saw my finger on the road and started to yell that we had already gone over the river!!!!!! I tried to explain but he pulled over to make sure we weren't lost..... I'd already got him from Durham and through most of London and he was yelling at me NOW?????? Mum (who also turns maps) was in the back seat and in hysterical laughter.

 

[MikeandCarolyn]

Which maps have that much detail, please? low bridges etc

They show where it goes,so if it dwindles to nothing,we don't do it-after a time you get a feeling for these things

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[ianandkath]

well, touch wood..(taps head), ny china truck satnav, has not let me dowm, up to now.
sends me on some strange routes but always gets me there.
ps you can turn off the speed camera noise, too many for me to follow

 

[CWH]

In my pre-MH days, I was going to a regular client at a yacht harbour, I usually ignored the satnag & just went my own way
One day I was early so decided to follow the satnag for a change; she took me down an ever-decreasing lane (to be expected here) but eventually ended up on a narrow slipway
If I'd had a Duwk I'd have been fine ..... as it was I had to either back up a couple of miles or more, or turn my lovely MX5 on a very steep and slippery 6' wide slipway - get it wrong & go for a swim

Our MH's Snooper is brilliant, avoids narrow & fiddly roads, low bridges etc

 

[DanielFord]

I hope this works! One of my friends sent me this:

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[MR. FUSION]

I use google maps in the UK and find the traffic data second to none and the terrain detail!! But google does love B roads so definitely needs a check the planned route is suitable.

Also great for working out public transport routes.

 

[CWH]

I hope this works! One of my friends sent me this:

There is NO WAY that I'd have stayed in that vehicle
Definitely a get-out-and-walk road