We go NOWHERE without GPS. Although honestly i beleve the older garmins were a bit better than the current model.
i drive a lot doing field service, my first garmin cost over 600 bucks.
during the first month i decided it had paid for itself. in saved gas, saved time. etc etc
GPS DONT LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT!
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Guys don't ask for directions=guys need a GPS...pretty basic.
Or if you have even a simple mobile phone you can get a free app that provides compass functionality. Of course most of the smarter phones will have GPS too but if you just want to know what direction you are pointed...
Cost of repairs is one reason I now longer own a Mercedes. The better dealers though, give you some KY jelly when you get the bill.
As stated before, you don't need the car nav, but in some cases you have to forgo a lot of other options as it is part of a package, They don't split the package, it is an expensive YES or NO.
last year a bought a new toyota avalon, without any navigation, which would have been 1.000s more
so i treated myself to a $200+ garmin GPS, with voice navigation, and a very large screen
i really like it, and i can use it in other cars i haven't tried the voice command thing
marc
Son got rid of his largely because of this reason. Also got rid of a Porsche he had - $100 just to change oil.
I had no problem attaching one to my dashboard with 2-sided tape. A compass isn't a GPS, and serves a different purpose. Sometime you just want to know in what direction you're heading. A compass does that best.
IIRC, you give up having a backup camera that comes with the navigation. That will change in another model year or so. I won't buy a car without the camera.
GPS has compass function. Compass heading is displayed all the time.
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Guess they're ok but...there's one in the Enclave but I simply find I never pay any attention to it since its output is a section of the center rearview mirror; I (like most truck drivers I suppose) use the side mirrors automagically as you get to where you simply "know" there's nothing visible directly behind you excepting the front wall of the truck bed (here, most frequently the grain box). Also, with dirt roads, the lens is always covered with dust and if it gets muddy it gets splattered as well. I did happen to notice today when in town with it for a meeting that if one looked _very_ carefully, one could still see a few smatterings of something totally indistinguishable between the opaque spots--and that's _after_ I happened to swipe a finger across the lens getting back in out after coming out of the post office a day or so before... :)
The audio avoidance warning is really more useful in many ways imo as even when it was clean and first got the vehicle I found the distortion in it to be of limited use. I suppose for the instance of the kiddo in the driveway, but we have none of them any longer...there are some neighbors with them on trucks and for a bumper hitch they turn out to be the cats meow they say...
Yeah, and mine has a time function too, but I use the dash clock. I only use the GPS for the mapping it provides to an address, which means I usually don't bring it. Unless your GPS has an electronic compass (mine doesn't) you have be moving to get a bearing, and you have to have a signal. It's a differential compass. Electronic compasses have to be kept calibrated, and need a steady mounting. My floating ball magnetic compass does a better job telling me what direction I'm going. I'm happy with it.
actually, my Avalon did come with a back up camera [it must be standard on all Avalons]
but it's not easy getting used to. i have mirrors, over my shoulder, and now a camera? almost too many things to look at
marc
Also you know that magnetic North is not true North.
OK, you give me another reason not to buy Buicks any more. I have a very clear 7" screen in my Sonata. After driving 25 miles in the snow it will be a bit blurry but a swipe of the finger restores it. The screen is shared by the navigation. New models have an 8" screen.
A surprisingly large number of kids are killed every year so there is definite payback for many drivers. Also nice when parallel parking in tight spots, the yellow and red lines are very accurate.
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The problem w/ the Enclave is one of most SUV body styles; the upright rear is far worse for blow back on the rear as compared to a sedan. That we're also on dirt roads doesn't help. The snow'll come off easily, it's the dried/caked mud I've not wet down to wipe off the lens that's the problem above.
The size is a little of an issue if one really cares about using it, but I'm just too old and set in my ways to really care/pay any attention.
I drove OTR back in the '90s. I would have given my left nut for a GPS and an (inexpensive) cell phone. I wonder if they have GPS data sets that know enough to not route you through 12' underpasses and residential areas?
What about GPS's that show bridges across rivers where the bridge has been removed??
Yes they do. The OTR community uses several specialized GPS programs that know where all the low overpasses etc are, and you can enter your truck length, width and height, as well as weight, and the program will route you accordingly. The system my brother used ran on a laptop with a remote "gps mouse" on the USB port.
With the step and tow bumper on my old F150, the audio avoidance is when I back into something.
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