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Does my memory serve me right in thinking that the first tunnel on the A/N 28 approaching Rouen is OK and that it is later ones in town that are the problem?
El Veterano
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Yes, but the low ones in town have height warning thingys on them anyway. Use the route I mentioned and you won't see a tunnel. Its a bit trickier going South mind. Just set 'via' point on satnav of Saint Adrien usually does the trick.
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The problem arises from using sat ab and not looking out for signs, I spent over 8 years doing European courier work in a sprinter panel van with out any problems,until I got a sat nav bought as a Christmas present, at first I used to put the sat nav on only to make sure it knew its way, after a few weeks I began to trust it, so about 2am I was traveling through Rouen a route I had taken many times, only this time I was trusting the sat nav, the next thing I sees this tunnel roof looking quite close and as it was early morning I had the roads to myself so I wasn't crawling luckily for me a sprinter panel van just fits under but the roof aerial was scraping all the way through, if I hadn't been relying on the sat nav I would have used the lane to the right of the tunnel.
Richard
Richard
El Veterano
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I find satnavs extremely useful, and ours is switched on on every trip that we do in the MH. There are even simple things that they are good for, like giving you your ETA at a glance, which may be important if you have a ferry to catch. I use ours as a speedo, particularly when abroad because the KM's readout on the Ducato speedo is impossible to read, and even down to finding out which direction we are traveling instead of using a separate compass. But one thing that you should never do is follow a satnav blindly. My partner nearly always will be following our route on a map as well, which has saved us from the satnav peculiarity's on many occasions, and she likes to have an overview of where we are going anyway.
El Veterano
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You are lucky that is your only reference, I went to the Cinema for the first time in ten years because I wanted to see this film
Two hours watching a Yorkshirewoman trying to deliver a bridge
I saw this film last night and it seems you must have seen a different film to me?
Canoman1
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Has anyone any experience of the Garmin Camper sat nav at Rouen? does it avoid the tunnels ?
Has anyone any experience of the Garmin Camper sat nav at Rouen? does it avoid the tunnels ?
El Veterano
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I've got the Garmin Camper 760 and as far as I recollect even if you don't instruct it to go to a 'via' point (which I usually do as previously mentioned) then it has always avoided the low tunnels.