Garmin nuvi 255 GPS

Recently, we purchased a Garmin nuvi255w GPS navigator for our car to ease our search for new places that we have to drive to, especially those in the west and north. Installing a OEM Mercedes GPS would have cost us an exorbitant sum of 10k which is really not worth it. This unit has a 480 x 272 pixels WQVGA color TFT with white backlight screen that provides crisp and sharp images even in strong daylight. It is quite lightweight weighing 147.42 g and the rechargeable lithium-ion battery can last for up to 4 hours. It has customizable features such as adding photos to depict your favourite places on the map.

An easy feature which I like is the Where Am I feature which allows me to record our favorite makan places which are not found in the standard list of main shopping belts etc. Like all new GPS, it allows you to decide whether you want to go by the fastest route or by the shortest route which may not be necessarily faster. After using this GPS, we found that it's main use would be to guide you to places that you never been to. For places that you already know how to get to, using a GPS could be slower and also you have to drive slower since the GPS distance calculator updates may be slower than your pace if you drive too fast and you may end up missing a turn. However, the nuvi will automatically plot a new route to get back on track if you do miss a turn.

The touchscreen and easy interface makes it a breeze to use although the typing may be a challenge on the touchscreen QWERTY keyboard if you have broad fingers or if you do not have enough elbow space due to the placement of your GPS in your car so you may want to try out a comfortable position to locate in your car for you to type comfortably.

(Above) We mounted it on our dashboard with the external wiring concealed into the dashboard.

We purchased and fitted our Garmin Nuvi GPS at Pin Liang Enterprise for $428 promotion inclusive of a desktop charger, SingMal maps, external leather casing and internal wiring to the car battery so that there is no unsightly external wire attachment to the car AV point. While they may not be the cheapest, Pin Liang does do a good job with it's installation based on our previous experiences.