hello magna owners i am thinking about buying a gps navigation system for my magna tj i have been looking at the garman gps also the tom tom gps any feed back would be helpfull thankyou warren (postman_warren@yahoo.com)

Hi mate.

I am HOPELESS with directions, so last year I bought myself a GPS System. I looked at the in car GPS computers with DIN screen and such but it was like $4k for a decent system.

For $700 I picked up a Navman PIN 570

Its a PDA with an attached GPS reciever and GPS software on it. You mount it to your windshield and it plugs into the cigarete lighter. It provides a live colour Map, voice instructions, route planning and auto re routing etc. Its very handy, ive used it many times. No system is perfect, but they are very handy.

I got GPS on my pda too.

I love my pda. You can do everything with it.

The portable systems now are reasonably cheaper than built in systems and the beauty is, you can take them with you, whatever car you're in.

My dad uses mine when he needs it, and if i ever sell my car, i can just take it with me quite easily.

i have a Garmin Quest and it's fantastic ... easy peasy to use ... it's teh goods

Got a Navman myself, forgot what model. Takes a little while to get used to driving with it, but definitely good to have.

Yeah the main thing is to realise they arent perfect.

Especially on Round-A-Bouts.

Trick is, look at the map, dont rely on the voice instructions so much.
But the map highlights all the turns anyway so its all good.

I use my laptop with a usb gps ($100), laptop sits behind the drivers seat and plugs into the front indash 7" monitor. the program is copilot 8 ($4~$500) and been good to use. love not caring about getting lost or where i'm going, saves arguing with the mrs to :D

iv got me a Navman ICN 635 from my dads work for $1000 when it was first on sale for like $1800 but they are gettin pretty cheap now. u can get one from JB-HiFi for $1300-$1200 and also from harvey norman. they are pretty good and quick in seeking different routes and ye has been really helpfull since iv had it. i reccomand that if u can spare that much cash

strangely, the eclipse site has scaled back its head units down to the one i've got! so i found this on the american site, hopefully they bring it over here!!

http://www.eclipse-web.com/5495index.html