On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:13:41 +0000, Lobster wrote:

only to find to my horror that for some bizarre reason, it wouldn't take
any power from the hire car and didn't work at all.

Blown fuse in the hire cars ciggy socket. Don't TomToms have an
internal battery or was that flat/have very short run time.

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Cheers
Dave.