[Milu]

There's a lot of food for thought given above. Thanks guys.

I've played with the Garmin a little while back but it's not for me, although the possibility of moving it between cars would be great.

How much would I use it? I can get myself lost going to the supermarket! I often have to visit clients located in the back of beyond and then hidden away, so it would be useful. I've used sat nav and found it helped a lot, even when it was to go somewhere not recognised by the system as I could put the location in memory after finding it the first time. In using sat nav I have found that not all roads are posted, I was told by a technician that the memory can "lose" pieces and the cd needs to be reloaded. The one I was using refused to believe in the existence of the Milan Venice motorway for 200klm, similarly it once plotted a route 70 klm longer than necessary because it didn't have a mountain pass in it's memory, the system went berserk for 20 minutes until I reached a road it recognised. Recently I drove with a client to Orleans in France and his Audi factory fitted sat nav didn't believe in Orleans! We ended up using a map to augment the sat nav and post alternative destinations. But it was still very useful, especially as the new roadmap we bought wasn't up to date.

In the next few weeks I'll take a decision. If I go ahead with the investment I'll post.