retired_musiclova31

Thinking of buying the missus a GPS for Christmas. As her car isn't technically ours - it's a novated lease to my company for tax purposes, but she likes it so much she wants to keep it once the lease runs out - the first condition I need to meet with the GPS is that it needs to be windscreen mounted but also possible to fully install into the car at a later date (should we decide to keep the car obv). The car is a 2006 Santa Fe which has a specific space for a GPS...

Aside from that, no real requirements to the GPS other than it being a good one, and obv one with configurable maps (as I'd obv need to load in some Australian maps). Don't give a stuff about the video/music playing malarkey, in fact would probably prefer it without that guff as the car's stereo plays mp3's, and the kids use my laptop for watching movies on long trips.

Any recommendations based on experience?

retired_musiclova31

oh, and cost is fairly irrelevant btw.

retired_jhr2211

tomtom, or my preferred choice garmin.

Garmin do aussie maps which are updated fairly often

http://www.garmin.com/cgi-bin/mapgen/webmap.cgi?p=11599...60&d=0&rz=0&k=1&sc=1

retired_halfshell69

i had a tomtom send me halfway round the north of england before it recognised there was a tunnel between liverpool and my house, so i'd suggest anything except a tomtom...

retired_musiclova31

cheers kris.

retired_mlpallen

I've had the original TomTom, then the 700 and now I've got the TomTom 720 and have never had a problem with them. You get map errors on all makes but the good thing about the 720 is that you can correct certain mistakes on the map. It's very easy to use aswell.

retired_mickey5ca

I've got a Garmin Nuiv 300. its qg and wouldn't look out of place if you decided to have it installed permanently in your car.

retired_mickey5ca

Nuvi* ffs

retired_musiclova31

well, based on kris mentioning them, i did a bit of looking around, and it seems that hyundai use the nuiv 300 if you take the gps option for the santa fe - that is, it fits perfectly into the slot in the dash left for a gps.

so this is now a bit of a no brainer really...

retired_musiclova31

christ, now i'm doing it.

nuvi ofc.