I am looking to buy a new sat nav. I know his has been covered over and again but I want to know what people think of the 5250. Read some bad reviews but have these issues been sorted now? Do any of you use them? Do they update ok?
Thanks for any sensible answers.
Save yourself a fortune and buy the trucktables sat nav.
Thanks for the reply. How many on here use the truck tables sat nav. Does it route you around restrictions or just highlight them. What are people’s opinions of these cheaper options.
Thanks.
Ive got a 5250 and I love it. Been using it on class 1 for a couple of weeks and its brill.
Tdb9:
Thanks for the reply. How many on here use the truck tables sat nav. Does it route you around restrictions or just highlight them. What are people’s opinions of these cheaper options.
Thanks.
I drive mainly at night so not much experience of it re routing around live traffic but when I’ve been held up its always popped up to ask if it’s congestion and if it wants to try and find an alternate route.
You’re always going to be in traffic in this country no matter what satnav you use unfortunately.
I tend to have my phone mounted up as well and use an app called Waze. Other users, and there’s loads of the, update it with live traffic, accidents, detours etc. The app takes every users average speed on the roads to give you a more realistic idea of your journey time. Unfortunately it’s not truck friendly at the moment, but can be handy for knowing what’s ahead.
Hammy747:
Save yourself a fortune and buy the trucktables sat nav.
With maps that are 12 months behind all of the big boys, no matter what the seller says.
Ken.
eagerbeaver:
Ive got a 5250 and I love it. Been using it on class 1 for a couple of weeks and its brill.
Until you take the diversion off the M4 e/b j14, it throws a gimp fit at you and tells you ‘in 100 yards, turn left’, because it can’t work out that you really need to hit the A4. Bare in mind, this is a 5150 but dare say the maps are the same. How good would that be, backing an artic out of there in to the dark! TomTom should really sort these issues out, especially at the price they ask
Hammy747:
Save yourself a fortune and buy the trucktables sat nav.
They are ok but fall a bit short here and there
With the weight limits the don’t take in account exept for access and if you go down it they just keep popping up continue or delete route without letting u see the map
And the only partial postcode is a bit of a pain .once you have the road in the post code and there’s no house numbers it offers intersecting street but the streets offered may be miles up the road on the same street not been near that postcode.
But they are ok otherwise but still have to rely on my car Tomtom for back up
Actrosman-cheers pal,i have made a note of your findings!
eagerbeaver:
Actrosman-cheers pal,i have made a note of your findings!
Truck specific satnav with bicycle specific routing!
I wonder if you go into ’ settings ',there is a ’ flatten cyclists ’ setting?
Anyone else here have a 5250 then. Beaver did you manage to update yours when you bought it.
Yeah-updated it no probs. 12 months free. Quite good too,they have helped on a couple of occasions.
I personally preferred my tomtom 7150 to the 5250. The new 5250 seems to have a few glitches such as the English voice ‘serena’ keeps disappearing and the unit defaults to and American voice, the vehicle settings for height & weight are in metric if you do manage to get the unit setup for serena. The routing does seem to be slightly better than the old version as is the screen display and menu settings.
It might be worth hanging on before upgrading to the 5250.
trubster:
I have bought one of these and would like to warn fellow drivers AGAINST them.I am a 5150 owner and sing the praises all day long, but find it getting a bit slow to update (Especially in the middle of London after leaving a tunnel), I saw the new revamped 5250 and bit the bullet.
It is completely useless, do not touch it with a bargepole! If you make a wrong turning off route, it ignores your dimensions and sends you under low bridges (Tested in the car), It will not update with the Tomtom software, Tomtom will not provide ANY technical support and it does not have any computer voices, so you end up with about 13 phrases that are pre-recorded (No street names etc.)
So if you see one in the truckstop or online and get the temptation to buy, DONT! Stick with the 5150. At least until it gets sorted out.
It’s such a shame as the new interface looks much better and the device runs very fast compared to the 5150, but if it doesn’t do what it’s designed to - then it is useless.
I use the trucktables one and have never had any bother.
5250 is a nice piece of kit
Sorry it’s the 5150
Trucktables all the way.looked at tomtom 5250,couldn’t afford it at the time so went with said device as a gamble and never looked back. Under £70. Bargain.
