I have written a number of very positive reviews about the TomTom GPS unit as well as the LiveTraffic on their website. They have also been very quick to replace faulty goods, but I must say I am getting a little bit frustrated now that I am onto my third GPS in only 8 weeks.

I am not quite sure whether I had the bad luck to buy into a faulty batch, all sold by the same distributor, or they have chronic problems but I already had two faulty units. The first one stopped giving the live traffic updates and then started resetting itself all the time and that was replaced for me. The second one worked fantastically for 2 or 3 weeks until it too stopped picking up the live traffic, and then on the basis that it allegedly was not charged, refused to pick up any more of the live traffic. The problem was that I could not charge it in the first place – not via a USB port and not via the usual cigarette charger either and I am not quite sure whether it is a faulty wire in the unit or a faulty battery pack, but I read that quite a few people had similar problems on the Internet.