Any suggestions on Navigation systems and install?

[Ails85]

Tomtom....ugh!

I Work at best buy in the install bay, Go with Garmin hands down. I cannot count how many people come back with tomtom and go with a Garmin.

Install just depends on how you wanted mounted....install is $34.99. Cig lighter hardwire adapter is $10. If you wanted mounted on a bracket they range from $15-32.

As far as indash units, the Kenwood 512 has Garmin navigation and is a very nice unit.

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[Blitanicle99]

I drive everywhere and I probably could not survive without a GPS unit for some of the places I go. However, I have had both the TomTom and the Garmin. Thus my Review.


Anyways, I had the TomTom and it was a good unit, no doubt. However the suction mount is a POS. It fell off my winshield like 10 times a day. The navigation system was nice, very simple and easy to use. A few little things I got annoyed with like the volume had to be reset every time you turned it on and such.


Sooo, I swapped to the 150.00 dollar Walmart Garmin Nuvi. Overall the navigation is the same, easy to use, touch screen. However I find that the Points of interest's are better set up. For instance when you look for restarunts, Garmin catagorizes them into different food times IE Chinese food, BBQ, Ice cream and so on. TomTom does not do that. The mount for the winshield is MUCH better. Has a latch to make it tighter which I am very happy with. Also the way it navigates you when you are en route I feel is better. It tells you road names rather then turn in 2 miles blah blah

In a nutshell. I believe the Garmin to be a better designed unit. I feel that the TomTom is just a name and isnt as good as they make it out to be. And thus having both Units, I like the Garmin personally better.