I paid over $700 for this unit.. Garmins tend to be the standard for GPS units. Mine is connected to an Interphone F5 bluetooth unit in my helmet which is great. I bought it for the weather capability and the traffic available via Sirius radio which is another $300 a year along with the sat radio music.. weather, etc..
My Garmin was fine last year.. I plugged it in last night and as expected a large update was needed.The update downloaded to the unit (almost an hour) .. I unplugged the unit and it turned off, then turned on automatically.. The screen said "instaling updates".. then it turned off.. Then the thing won't boot.. It tells me that the operating system is missing.. I plugged it into my computer and the desktop can no longer see it... I went to the Garmin site and guess what.. closed until Monday.. Not that anyone that buys their product may want to use it on a weekend.. I Googled.. the screen message and there are a ton of threads on this bug going back to 2010.. so I now have a $700+ paperweight.. a permanent installation on my 650.. and no tech support until "normal business hours".. so that means I will have to spend some of my workday sometime on the phone with some tech support jerk.. who will , no doubt, mess up everything else on my computer so I can get his piece of crap to work on it..
THis sort of insanity can not be tolerated.. I cannot believe that in all my research I wasn't aware of this.. and now I find it everywhere.. For the number of times I have used it, I could have bought a Nuvi.. used it once, thrown it away , bought another and thrown that away after one use.. and I would still be ahead..
Today I have the 1st reasonably long trip of the season , no GPS .. and I'm out about $1,000.. Congrtats Garmin you win.. yiou ripped me off and you have no customer service available when needed.. :cherry:
My Garmin was fine last year.. I plugged it in last night and as expected a large update was needed.The update downloaded to the unit (almost an hour) .. I unplugged the unit and it turned off, then turned on automatically.. The screen said "instaling updates".. then it turned off.. Then the thing won't boot.. It tells me that the operating system is missing.. I plugged it into my computer and the desktop can no longer see it... I went to the Garmin site and guess what.. closed until Monday.. Not that anyone that buys their product may want to use it on a weekend.. I Googled.. the screen message and there are a ton of threads on this bug going back to 2010.. so I now have a $700+ paperweight.. a permanent installation on my 650.. and no tech support until "normal business hours".. so that means I will have to spend some of my workday sometime on the phone with some tech support jerk.. who will , no doubt, mess up everything else on my computer so I can get his piece of crap to work on it..
THis sort of insanity can not be tolerated.. I cannot believe that in all my research I wasn't aware of this.. and now I find it everywhere.. For the number of times I have used it, I could have bought a Nuvi.. used it once, thrown it away , bought another and thrown that away after one use.. and I would still be ahead..
Today I have the 1st reasonably long trip of the season , no GPS .. and I'm out about $1,000.. Congrtats Garmin you win.. yiou ripped me off and you have no customer service available when needed.. :cherry: