Garmin 660 Sat nav

Tempted to get this.
Anyone have any experiance with it?

Is there any real benefit to this over the 550?

Cheers

dave

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Missus has one. (I always know where I'm going , see below )

It actually is a impressive bit of kit. Shop around as we paid nowhere near RRP. Pretty sure it was same price for a 550 or even cheaper.
A lot less bulky and huge than the 550. Bigger screen no fiddly buttons, all touch screen. Great even with gloves. I hate the speed camera area warnings in car but won't be able to hear that on the bike anyway as I won't be using bluetooth sound/earpiece thing.

Fitting it to my bike for going away. The ETA function has impressed me the most. Hoping it takes a bit of pressure off blasting up and down the road for ferries....and taking the wrong turn off in a foreign city and lose an hour trying to find our way out in a sopping wet thunder storm after stopping and fiddling about with soggy paper maps with too big a scale.

Yeah I've seen them going for around £420 for the cheapest I think so far.

If you want it for the bike unless you intend using the blue tooth facility the 400 series is adequate -only no sound but easy enough to follow.Check on the battery life as you can use it without a power supply when you change vehicles.I drive to where I want to be i.e.Manchester then switch on to find my way for the last part of the journey. Make sure it has up to date mapping as the deluxe models tend to stay in stock and may have not got all the updates when you purchase it
I prefer the TOM-TOM for the car

I would quite like the bluetooth.
I'm not getting it just yet but definately for summer when I start making more trips.

I'm watching a couple of 400s on ebay at the minute, if they go cheap then I'll get one of those for the meantime.

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Originally Posted by EssexDave

Yeah I've seen them going for around £420 for the cheapest I think so far.

Sounds about right.

Good gen here...

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=46

I use this one and its a great kit, never let me down yet.

I just use a cheap satnav, put it in the map pocket of my tank bag, plug some noise isolating earphones into it and bobs your uncle. I can hear directions and if needed can see them as well plus its got a 2 hour battery life. Although if needed you could wire in a cigarrette lighter to power it.

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Originally Posted by Gabriel2k

I just use a cheap satnav, put it in the map pocket of my tank bag, plug some noise isolating earphones into it and bobs your uncle. I can hear directions and if needed can see them as well plus its got a 2 hour battery life. Although if needed you could wire in a cigarrette lighter to power it.

Ditto.... i bought the garmin nuvi 1240 very very compact touch screen with bluetooth for £89 then had a 12v adapter fitted to the bike just incase i need to charge on the go £39. all fits inside my Oxford tank bag £10 I know its not as flash as the bike specific units but does the same job when i need it to.

total price = £138.

Hmm not a bad shout pete.
How much hassle was the 12v adapter?