The deal was on when I checked on Sunday night. The closest one was Blackburn for myself and there was apparently one display model left for £50.00. I reserved it for collection, only to realise that there was a glitch in the system and 6 orders were placed for this one display model. They ended up giving me a TomTom Go 51 instead, brand new and sealed for the same price!! So I was quite happy, top customer service.

It was higher than that for my area and now its up 89.99! Bah! missing out. I will have to look out for next years.

Showing as £50 now

If this ex-display item had gone back up in price, it would show on the website wouldn't it?

Oh well, more HOT, HOT, HOT! votes :smile:

its not showing as £40 on their site, anyone know if it has been put back up in price a bit please?

On holiday on Isle of Wight and grabbed a £70 Go 50. Nothing in stores near me at home. Great condition, boxed with leads and holder. All updated with euro maps and latest SW.

Thanks OP :laughing:

Lol... even Halfrauds appear to have removed this item from their website now.

Glad I voted it HOT, HOT, HOT!

Let me guess... always worth checking your local store in case they have one that isn't even on the webisite. Someone might have just returned one.
:smile:

The box claims UK and Ireland Maps only. The man in the shop said the same. I've just updated mines and it's updated as Europe. So it's more than just the Uk and Ireland. Bonus

I was in Coleraine Northern Ireland.

How odd. I had the complete opposite experience with the one I picked up.

Which Halfords store did you pick yours up from?

Well even at £50 I went on a head and picked one up. It's my first satnav. I had been thinking about getting one this past while and I honestly didn't want to spend too much on it. I've been using my phone which is pretty good. The tom tom looks brand spanking new. Thanks to the op

I'm going to Italy soon and will be driving. I've got an iPhone and downloaded navmii as I wanted a sat nav I can use without using any data. Can anyone suggest if there are any better alternatives? Does google maps allow offline routing yet? Thanks.

This is showing £50. Is there a promo code to knock £10 off it? Or has the price just gone up.

Good price... I reserved one straight after seeing this post, and have to say after getting it home and toying around with it for about three hours, the device hadn't managed to connect to the software and the GPS hadn't found a single location. The screen was drab and very unresponsive - I had to press quite hard and very accurately to get the characters I wanted, meaning you spend half the time correcting what you're typing ... I returned it immediately! I guess I had a duff example regarding the GPS and software, but the screen issues were offputting enough to tell me it was actually a downgrade from my entry level TomTom from 2010 and I am currently looking at the Garmin Drive 50 which stood out from the entire Garmin and TomTom range. Ok so £109 as opposed to £40, but still one of the cheaper models about.

how we apply discount ?

i have already reserved one..so thought worth checking before collecting;)

Definitely worth buying ... but you can't as no store has stock.

But thanks for the question and bump, it'll allow this deal to get HOTTER, HOTTER, HOTTER!

it doesn't come with warranty, is it still worth to buy?

I dint' QUITE say that! nudge nudge! (Google is your friend) ;-)

That is still less spec for more money right?

I'm referring to the Start 50 with UK & ROI maps (which is £50).

How is the TomTom GO 50 £11 more then TomTom Start 50?

Start 50 = £40
Go 50 = £70

What's the main difference between the 2 models?

I would have paid £40 for the Start 50.

I would have paid an extra £11 for the Go 50 (£51).

But £70 for the Go 50, not as good a bargain.

I have the TomTom Go 910, how do these models compare?

You will find they are also doing the uk version for £50 ex display just picked one up limited stock
Comes with a year warranty has normal plus free updates for life

Thanks for posting this one.

Picked one up from my local store. Used my discount card and it came in at £54.50.

By the way, there are plenty of the £50 UK and ROI versions available in the Manchester area.

Well I understand that is their business model nowadays, but there is no such thing as a free lunch, eventually they will expect you to pay for something or they will release a new model that makes your's obsolete. Plus with data connections they are data mining location, speed, usage hours etc just like Waze.

The good old tomtom One was useful for a long time, and all manner of free content was available online. But now, as the more cynical (realistic) of us believe, they will send updates to your device that deliberately cripple it in some way (Just like Android, IOS, Windows Phone/Windows. games consoles etc). I guess you can still get Chinese sat nav's that can still be freely enjoyed for many years.

if you can hold of one its a good deal.....but I got an Ex demo garmin (cannot remember the model) but it had European maps on, and free updates, from Peter Jones in London for £15.00......the only issue I had is that it was stuck in demo mode, so took abit of time on google to get it out, but eventually got there! No that was a bargain!

The whole point is TomTom Go updates speed cameras and maps often, all in one, built in, and live traffic update via data connection means it sets useful routes, although the maps are downloaded onto the SD card but the live data needs a connection (so I set initial route first while on wifi before I leave the house to minimise data use!)

Of course I couldn't possibly comment on things like cracks!!!

On another note, how hard are these to "crack" and add free speed cams and new maps to these days?. The old tomtom's were great when you could do that.

Thanks I managed to reserve one. I am going on Holiday soon to europe and this will be a great help.

I agree, you can, but it ends up being a full time job keeping things going, insurance is a FORTUNE for younger lads now and ALL money ends up going to keeping a car running, so it must end up being a case of working JUST to run a car to be able to go to work! :-( It never was much different, but when I was in my 20's there at least seemed SOME chance of progression, a better wage eventually, and a hope of having somewhere to live... one day!

There's a lad a my local halfords and he is one of the best employees I have ever encountered. Extremely helpful and friendly, I see him changing light bulbs and wiper blades in rain and snow. He has been there for years now and is in his mid 20's with a family, but he still only has a cheap 125cc motorcycle.

I bet he isn't on more than £8 an hour and has practically no rights and hardly any holidays. (Yes on paper maybe they have certain rights and certain amount of holidays, but in reality they often exert so much pressure and instill fear into staff that it simply isn't true. This is the case for all low paid staff with insecure contracts, even those at local authorities. Even those with Union representation as Union's are so weak now.)

But, if you do your homework you can run a car quite cheaply, an old £500 diesel car of the right model year that qualifies for cheapish tax of £30-£115 per year. A Suzuki Alto, or buy a Micra and pay a little more in tax but probably cheaper parts and cheaper to fix if anything does go wrong. Do a basic oil change yourself once a year, do your homework on insurance and play about on comparison sites to figure out what is the cheapest option.

I think you should list this as separate deal. Just rang my local and the man has put it aside for us. Good timing as ours broke last week and we are going away tomorrow!

I use Android, and I have tried Sygic, Navigon and Tomtom both the original and finally the "Go" version and that has suited me best.

You can get the trial version for free on Google Play, it allows so many miles of use per month. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tomtom.gplay.navapp

I also use the MyDrive app (free) to connect it with the web page ( https://mydrive.tomtom.com/en_gb/ ) and send routes and Favourites to the phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tomtom.mydrive.eu

​which app would you recommend?

Nearest available stock to me is 427 miles away, road trip time!

UK & Ireland version available for £50 in some stores.

I checked London and it offered Inverurie or Peterhead in Scotland so I guess NOT much chance of getting one!

​lol ! yes and will it include all the border control areas between Scotland , England and Wales

Difficult to run a car on minimum wage and a zero hours contract :-(

Glove box? Well, if so, you are in the car, phone or standalone unit they both need plugging in to run Sat nav software anyway (or it will flatten the battery pretty quick). Far more use keeping a battery pack in the glove box you can carry with you if the battery on your phone might run low while out and about.

My standalone unit hasn't been used for ages, it was taking room up in the glove box and I just took it out of the car today as I am changing the car tomorrow, it still works, but it's now in a bag with stuff I WON'T be putting back into the new one. No, my new car hasn't got built-in sat nav, I prefer the Android phone as I want regular updates (cheap - very!) and it will be fully updated whenever I change my phone too; plus I don't want to look down and LEFT to glance at the screen, for years I am used to it being in the corner of the windscreen where I can reach it, so didn't spend the extra for a built in unit, which would have been the main difference in the next higher model.

Since Android and iPhones run the software now I think they have become obsolete, you can run various versions on them. For me, TomTom Go is great on Android, costs 15 quid a year all in,(if you MUST pay for it!) but it gets regular updates, speed cams the lot included. I still use Waze sometimes as it can be useful for quick updates on local speed or incident info, but Tomtom Go for routing, although I have used Navigon which I didn't care for, being used to TomTom.

Thats likely because they have first hand experience of how expensive it is to run a motor car in this country

In stock at Inverurie and Peterhead for the benefit of our europhile friends in the North.....do they really still have resistive screens in these?

Not many shop staff own cars. When my local retail park's shops shut at 8pm the crowd at the bus stop is huge.

Closest to me; Brynmawr
106.63 miles

Could someone tell me the benefits of something like this versus Waze (or any decent sat Nav) on my iPhone? Genuine question

Will the european maps work after Brexit??:wink:

Same happened to me this morning

LOL

... and any clues which store that might be? Certainly not Evesham or any store that I wouldn't need the sat nav to get to nearby.

Anyway, voted HOT, HOT, HOT! for the effort of posting

I reserved yesterday and was called this morning that they don't have it in stock, I think staff bought it onestly :disappointed: Great find by the way.

Theres also this one... only uk and Ireland maps..
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductMobileDisplay?catalogId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=165685&productId=1081971&storeId=10001

Great find op...cheers

Thanks OP. None in my area, however there are 50 Go's available with lifetime EU maps & traffic updates for £70. This is the same price as the 25 new, which I have reserved. Which is the better deal?

Cold, I mean we'll have to pay extra and get visas to make use of those maps now :stuck_out_tongue:

Whilst this is an amazing deal, cant find it in stock anywhere!!

It does come with cameras - free updates until until end of 2016, I paid 36 yesterday

this sat nav work in UK?.please advise

Should really add 'ex-display' in the title, good price though.

Not that bad of a price. I was going to grab this with my tesco double up at £90-100. But with a resistive screen, I had to get something that felt more like a smart phone and ended up with the GO 500.
Luckily I won it new of an eBay auction for £80, when it was retailing for £129 (very sale, normally £140+).