Speed Camera gadgets

[Janner_Sy]

Evening all

My Tom Tom has had the speed camera alerts on it and in all honesty i reckon it has saved me from getting points on many occassion, but its now ancient and prone to stopping working all together.

Plus vRS_Alex has kindly sold me a Columbus stereo with NAV for my car.  So im thinking it might be worthwhile to buy a speed camera detector that can stay fitted in the car permanently.

Any body use these, are there any legality issues i need to look into before deciding on the best option?

Sy

[Hedge]

You can add speed camera POI's to the Columbus. 

[Janner_Sy]

You can add speed camera POI's to the Columbus.  

 

Does it all get pre-loaded on the hardrive or does it work from a disc?  Ive not had a columbus in my motors before.  Im to tight  

[Hedge]

Im to tight 

Not what I've heard. 

You can import them from SD card onto the hard drive.

[Janner_Sy]

Im to tight 

Not what I've heard. 

You can import them from SD card onto the hard drive.

Im so tight, i can pick up cigarette butts with my a$$ cheeks.

And cheers for the info on the SDcard.  problem solved

[ian_mac]

I don't think there are any issues with the GPS based camera location devices in this country, it's when you go down the route of radar jammers etc it all becomes dodgey.

I'm sure France have just banned all speed camera devices including GPS based one so it could be doing a little more research if you intend to use them on the continent.

[Tfsi_Mike]

You don't have to worry about getting points in your car 

[Hedge]

You don't have to worry about getting points in your car 

Not parked up in Milton Keynes. 

[MarkMarked]

You can add speed camera POI's to the Columbus. 

Won't the alerts be just visual on the RNS or has someone managed to workout how to get audio alerts as well ?

[Hedge]

Sorry no audio alerts on RNS. I have a Talex for that side of things.

[Tfsi_Mike]

Pogos get good reviews

[RedRobin]

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I've used Road Angels but they didn't cater for uploads to Macs so I got a GPS PogoAlert and then their latest version PogoAlert+.

The display unit slides on and off a fixed mount which I have hardwired. Switches on and off automatically with ignition. I have it displaying my speed in mph but you can switch to kph easily. It sometimes takes a few minutes to lock onto a satellite but is usually okay.

http://www.pogo-gps.co.uk/pogo_alert_plus.php







HTH 

[jhtrophy]

Inforad by far best one, £50 from halfords, can't be doing with stuff on dash, had mine few years, works all over Europe and free updates.

[RedRobin]

^^^^
I like mine centrally on the dash in my line of sight - The GTI Mk5 clock displays are very poor and my speedo is very inaccurate too - 100 mph on clock = 83 mph on GPS (tested on several GPS devices).

[RedRobin]

Inforad by far best one, £50 from halfords, can't be doing with stuff on dash, had mine few years, works all over Europe and free updates.

....Why is it by far the best one? - It doesn't do half of what the PogoAlert+ does as far as I can see.