Thursday 3 March 2011

An Auto Navigation System Can Help Travelling

By Owen Jones


Are you happy driving long distances on your own? Or driving to destinations that you are not familiar with? If you are, then all well and good, but there are lots of people who have to make journeys like those, but who are terrified of getting lost.

It is not simple to get a job these days and it will almost certainly get worse before it gets any better, so it is not easy to object or risk losing your job. A way around these problems is an auto navigation system or a sat nav as many people call them.

An auto navigation system is fairly cheap these days and it can alleviate lone drivers of a lot of stress, if it is used properly. If your car did not come with an auto navigation system, then get one installed by a reputable third party or go for one of the other options, such as installing the software on a laptop or getting a hand-held sat nav system.

In fact, the dearest way of purchasing an auto navigation system is to get it with the car on finance, because you will get hit twice. Not only are the car manufacturers and their dealers the most expensive by a long way, but if you put the sat nav on the car finance you will pay even more for it. Heaps more.

Buy your car on finance if you have to, but buy all the accessories independently for cash. Think about visiting a few garages and asking for a quote on the system that you like. This requires a little research first, but it is well worth it. There are two ways of going about this: either check out which system you would like first, or see what local technicians can install first.

After you have finished this research, you will have your price for installation and then you can go online and find out how much you can get one there for in comparison with the local shopping street.

Another option is to buy an adapter for the cigarette lighter socket so that you can plug your laptop into it and buy the software and hardware as a package so that you can change your laptop computer into a full GPS auto navigation system.

If you already have a laptop, this is the cheapest, best option. It will provide at least as good a system as a stand-alone set-up and the screen may even be superior. It also means that you can remove the unit so as not to give thieves another reason to break into your car.

The least expensive option of all is to get a hand-held GPS sat nav unit. These are also useful, but often they do not provide the same level of service. Like the laptop alternative, the hand-held device can be taken out of the car and used on a boat. However, the hand-held unit can also be used while hiking or on a bike




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