Which Sat Nav ???

[Cartman]

http://www.satnaveasy.co.uk/garmin-zumo-660-i6040.html

I was looking a few weeks ago and found this, 660 for £375, but they are NOH units (newly overhauled by Garmin) bought a 220 for £275 from Amazon in the end. Matching Currys sale price.

[Rusty]

Thanks for putting that link on Cartman .... he has 44 in stock ( its now 4pm )  .... last night when I ordered he had 56 ! 

[Cartman]

No worries ;D  starting to wish I'd bought the 660 too now....

[routemaster]

Interesting if they newly overhauled by Garmin does this mean that Garmin have had problems with the 660 and customers have been returning them???

[Cartman]

Well the 3 people i know that bought 660s when they came out have had 8 between them, as they kept turning themselves off or just crashing totally.......however since the latest firmware upgrade all of them have worked flawlessly.

[fred24]

Had my 660 for 2yrs without any problem and currently using it in Spain without any problem although it does still think the speed limits are 120km/hr

[mecki]

Last month while I was riding through Holland my sat nav insisted I was riding through a rather long speed camera area with a 80km/h limit while all the signs said 100.
The warning bells nearly drove me nuts. And I had just downloaded the latest maps before I left.

[Rusty]

The Zumo 660 arrived on Monday morning ... I have just got home from work so the unit is charging up whilst I have a look through the paperwork.
4000 mile service in the morning plus wiring in the sat nav .... no more than a couple of hours if that I would think .... then start looking at " France " on the maps ......

[Lonewolf]

Rusty, if you are going to use the front connectors for the sat nav, its probably a ten minute job at most.

[Lonewolf]

Rusty, how did the sat nav perform?

[Rusty]

It did very well thanks ... wired in at the service with the cables tucked away under the left part of the fairing ( for the moment ) ... I just got used to playing around with it in France, just the very basics, " Where to ? " etc, and put some favourites into the memory ... just going to plumb it into the I Mac in the morning to register it etc and play with the maps and planning etc. We used it once for the coordinates of a campsite and it took us straight there ... better than post codes I have to say. So at the moment, still very new but an excellent bit of kit.
I have always been an anti " listen to music on the move " chap as I think it would be distracting etc ... but I really feel that the music etc is going to be a big part of the Zumo and the French trip has proved that almost everyone was listening to music etc with no problems at all ... so I think i shall get some moulded ear plugs made up and go from there ... hard wiring as opposed to wireless me thinks.