Garmin 495 or Area 500

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Garmin 495 or Area 500

Postby JuanMarais » Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:07 am

I would like to know witch of the above would be the prevered GPS. Normally the Garmin 495 is around R12000, but now you can get it on special for R7000.
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Re: Garmin 495 or Area 500

Postby Tribal Croc » Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:23 am

I am using the Area 500 on my trike and have had no problems vhpy I find it to be very user friendly the only thing is in direct sunlight the screen is hard to see :(
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Re: Garmin 495 or Area 500

Postby JuanMarais » Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:50 am

Thats all good, but is the Garmin 495 a better GPS? Or is the Area a newer version because of the touch screen. Im bought a Bushbaby, so I dont think it will be a problem with the closed cockpit.
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Re: Garmin 495 or Area 500

Postby RV4ker (RIP) » Sat Mar 26, 2011 1:03 pm

I have used both and prefer the x96 range...
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Re: Garmin 495 or Area 500

Postby JuanMarais » Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:40 pm

Are you talking about the 496 Garmin or the other 296 GPS's
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Re: Garmin 495 or Area 500

Postby Jabbanaught » Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:18 pm

Go for the 495 , Aera 500 good GPS , BUt in open cockpit the 495 is better
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Re: Garmin 495 or Area 500

Postby RV4ker (RIP) » Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:59 am

I prefer the 296 to the 500, but so def the 496 to the 500...
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Re: Garmin 495 or Area 500

Postby cornell » Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:02 pm

JuanMarais wrote:I would like to know witch of the above would be the prevered GPS. Normally the Garmin 495 is around R12000, but now you can get it on special for R7000.

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Re: Garmin 495 or Area 500

Postby JuanMarais » Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:19 pm

I found it online at LENSE "n"CAMERA'S SA
54 Beach Rd Cnr Lodge Rd,
Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth
South Africa

They got it on special untill end of April
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Re: Garmin 495 or Area 500

Postby Bulletjie » Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:40 pm

Hi Juan

Do you have contact details for them?
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Re: Garmin 495 or Area 500

Postby RV4ker (RIP) » Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:00 pm

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Re: Garmin 495 or Area 500

Postby JuanMarais » Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:20 pm

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I think that is an excellent price R7100
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Re: Garmin 495 or Area 500

Postby JuanMarais » Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:05 pm

DONT BUY FROM THESE PEOPLE> cost me a fortune already and still no GPS. SCAM!!!!!!!!!!
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