Hard Wearing Sat Nav

[leftcurl]

i let one of my sales guys borrow my HP Sat Nav on friday and off he went on his travels returning to the office at about 4.45pm. When he got back i was having a kick about with a football in the yard (the building trade is not busy at the moment!!) and he said 'here's your sat nav back' and he left it on a pallet of bricks.

of course it goes without saying that i then just went home and left it there all weekend in the wind and rain... came back in work on monday... it was absolutely soaked. i dried it off and it works perfectly... i couldn't believe it. my faith has been restored slightly in hi-tech electronic goods... i always thought if you as much as sneezed on them it'd be £200 up the swanny!

 

[Cobra]

Thats pretty cool
Mine lept off the windscreen did a 4.0 4.5 5.0 dive over the dash board
and clipped the gear stick on the way back down
****ed the screen £100 to repair
Its about 150 quids worth of sat nav

 

[Keltic Ice Man]

Chris if it had been all straight 5.0's then it might have cost even more

Leftcurl - Glad for one it was still there, and for two that it still worked

 

[Flash In The Pan]

Thats pretty cool
Mine lept off the windscreen did a 4.0 4.5 5.0 dive over the dash board
and clipped the gear stick on the way back down
****ed the screen £100 to repair
Its about 150 quids worth of sat nav

Mine keeps trying to kill me by suggesting "sharp right turn" when I'm doing 90 70 mph on the motorway, or sending me down one way streets the wrong way

 

[MisterE]

Thats pretty cool
Mine lept off the windscreen did a 4.0 4.5 5.0 dive over the dash board
and clipped the gear stick on the way back down
****ed the screen £100 to repair
Its about 150 quids worth of sat nav

I bought a Tom Tom for a friend which detached itself a couple of months later from the windscreen, fell on the gear lever and broke the screen. I had some correspondence with TT over a warranty repair and they declined. They offered to repair it for £150. I pointed out that it had only cost £130 to buy new. I pursued the claim based on the fact that it was their windscreen attachment device which had failed, it was a common and longstanding problem, and should have been rectified. They still declined. I sent a written letter to their head office and they approved a repair/replacement "as a gesture of goodwill". Both my friend and myself now use a Navmat which the TT sucks itself on to and sits on the dash. It hasn't fallen off it yet.

 

[Cobra]

Chris if it had been all straight 5.0's then it might have cost even more

lol

Mine keeps trying to kill me by suggesting "sharp right turn" when I'm doing 90 70 mph on the motorway, or sending me down one way streets the wrong way

Not had that (thankfully) but I guess my time will come)

I bought a Tom Tom for a friend which detached itself a couple of months later from the windscreen, fell on the gear lever and broke the screen. I had some correspondence with TT over a warranty repair and they declined. They offered to repair it for £150. I pointed out that it had only cost £130 to buy new. I pursued the claim based on the fact that it was their windscreen attachment device which had failed, it was a common and longstanding problem, and should have been rectified. They still declined. I sent a written letter to their head office and they approved a repair/replacement "as a gesture of goodwill". Both my friend and myself now use a Navmat which the TT sucks itself on to and sits on the dash. I hasn't fallen off it yet.

Thats a great result
I haven't tried the head office route but customer service said that they would offer a "small" PX price against a new one