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Old 03-23-17 | 02:41 PM
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njkayaker
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From: Far beyond the pale horizon.
Originally Posted by mattbur
You and others have mentioned "issues" involving the various Garmin's. What would be an example of an issue?? ie. software, hardware, programming?
"Software" and "programming" are the same thing.

Keep in mind that I'm talking about navigation. There can be cases of the "turn guidance" not working.

On the Touring (from my experience), the "turn guidance" would stop working fairly regularly. That wouldn't be so bad if you could restart the navigation. But (from my experience), the navigation would get stuck at the beginning of the course. You could still follow the magenta line (so it wasn't a complete disaster).

The issues appear to be more related to software issues. It appears that it can take Garmin a while to fix things.

Originally Posted by mattbur
And, it seems, according to some things I've read, that some of the Garmin's are more apt to have more problems than the others.
It seems that newer units have more issues. The 810 should be reasonably OK (but I don't have enough experience say that it is).

Originally Posted by mattbur
Wouldn't it seem the best for a companies reputation to fix their problems as they arise and not allow problems to continue?
You should probably talk to Garmin about this. I'm stuck providing advice on the way things are (rather than the way the should be but aren't).

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