Hi All,

I turned on my columbus sat nav today to find that my sm thinks it is driving somewhere in the middle of germany when it should be in Ireland. Pressed all the top buttons to together to reset the sat nav but i am still in Germany. Help!!

Hi All,

I turned on my columbus sat nav today to find that my sm thinks it is driving somewhere in the middle of germany when it should be in Ireland. Pressed all the top buttons to together to reset the sat nav but i am still in Germany. Help!!

Have you considered the possibility that the Sat Nav is right and it is you that is hopelessly lost?

Have you considered the possibility that the Sat Nav is right and it is you that is hopelessly lost?

Ah thats what the problem is. And i was wondering why all those cars going in the wrong direction were flashing their lights at me

So the Germans did win the war.

So the Germans did win the war.

Well, they started it ...

"Ve have ways of making you lost"

I once had a Toyota (Lexus) Soarer with in dash TV/Sat Nav. I got a conversion so I could watch very fuzzy tellie while at a standstill, sometimes. But the Sat Nav couldn't ever be persuaded it was anywhere other than Tokyo bay.

It did have an absolutely luxurious interior and a creamy smooth V8 which -on private roads-pushed to 153 actual mph.

If you visit the ice, security & insurance section, you will find many people have reported this problem. I can't remember what the solution was, but have a look there.

Could be Regensburg Syndrome, have you recently done a firmware upgrade?

Ian

Just yesterday my Snooper Sat Nav got halfway through a journey and, at a small village, turned me right and right again....whereupon I realised it had taken us back to to the start of the same village. I re-set it and at the same spot as before it turned us right again. Needless to say it should have sent us left instead of right...but would have been content to take us round and round in the same circle all day. Not what you need when you're relying on it to take to from A to B.

It's done it before in a different place....round and round in a circle.

What's the opinion re. Tom Tom versus the other popular makes? Garmin etc.?

I'd quite like to have a reliable traffic information service but that seems like asking for the earth. I won't be going down the mobile phone + app. route. Just really want a Sat Nav that works and is reliable.

TomTom for me, wins every time

+ 1

TomTom without a doubt.

Having used Tom Tom, Navigon, CoPilot, Navmi, MFD2, the Columbus, and a Garmin edge I prefer the Cloumbus.

I have been using Sat Nav for 7 years now, never once got lost! But you do have to interpret them, you can't 100% rely on Sat Nav. I've only covered about 160,000 miles over that time.

The Columbus wins for me because of the size of screen, the integration with the maxidot showing next junction etc, oem look, integrated into the car, the distance for instructions, the reliability of the receiver- I have lost signal on various Tom Tom devices and on various smartphones- Palm Tungsten, Palm Treo, several T-mobile MDA's and iPhones. And also not having to remove it and clean the circle off the windscreen every time I get out to see a client which could be 5 or 6 times a day.

I have in the past had problems with units falling off the windscreen, but the latest suction mounts are much better. Best solution was an active Brodit mount mounted over an air vent.

Of the portable devices I found TomTom to be the best, but there are several good units out there like Garmin.

Mike

+ 1

TomTom without a doubt.

+2 ... hardwired in and mounted to the A pillar with a Brodit pro clip.

Well I've got a Garmin, and like it, but even better is an

O S map!!

Hetty the Yeti Navigator's console: an iTouch running GPS onto OS Maps

Link to Yeti's iTouch

Edited 23 October, 201114 yr by mandatrix

Ihave the Columbus in the Yeti and a Garmin Zümo 660 on the MC. The Columbus is the best - large screen below and details of the next events on the maxidot.

The Zümo works fine with voice instructions on the helmet earphones.

As far as traffic and roadworks warnings, I find them useless. The problem is that the authority that puts out the data lets it be there much longer than the problem exists, so more false warnings than useful ones. It is not the fault of the GPS, but the supplier of the data.

Speedtrap warnings are also IMHO a waste of time - there are far too many to pay attention to them, so either drive the limit, so you have nothing to worry about - or heed the warnings and drive the limit anyway.

On motorways anywhere, follow the behaviour of the roadwarriers, they know which traps are active and which not. This works all over the world.

Have only just found this thread after my holiday and then time off-line.

I had a similar experience when I took the SM to France for the first time last spring. Coming out of an underground car park in Aix-en-Provence, the satnav told me I was in the middle of Frankfurt! During the same trip, driving across from Le Puy-en-Velay towards the motorway south to Aix, I had put in Tournon-sur-Rhone as a lunch stop. Even though I was only some 50k away when I entered this destination, the satnav insisted I had 200+k to travel, tried to send me some bizarre ways and, even when I was in Tournon itself and it was showing on the map display, told me that I had 150k to go! And yes, I had entered the correct town with its correct Fench postcode!

Since then, including a return trip to the south of France (and a journey via Tournon, when I entered it in the satnav out of interest, although I knew the route perfectly well), I have had no problems at all.

OMG! This thread will be moved. :'(

OMG! This thread will be moved. :'(

I'm frankly disgusted that it hasn't been already. How dare the OP pollute the Yeti section with pointless wittering about a Columbus sat nav that most Yeti owners don't even have!

Only joking OP!

Lol. I was just wondering why this hadn't been moved. :-),

I am as well, it seems to have strayed from the original question, to which an answer hasn't been forthcoming from the frequenters of this section. I'll move it to a section where the original question stands more chance of getting an answer.

Hardwired adapted Traffic Receiver cable to dash-mounted stick-on disc pad, for TomTom 25 Start.

If you set up your home address and save it, it will then revert back to your location in Ireland