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Posted by ColinC
Garmin Nuvi range

Does anyone have any experience of the new Nuvi GPS units from Garmin? They are compact, feature rich and getting rave reviews in the USA and UK and I'd like to hear from anyone who may have some hands-on experience.

Posted by Guest
Re: Garmin Nuvi range

i have it great unit best buy i ever made, great features if you are thinking of buying......do it!

Posted by Guest
Nuvi300

Brought mine 3 weeks ago and great unit
Fits in car beside door pillar hidden out of site
I looked it up on usa sites best contrast in its range
easy to read
friend saw it and also brought it
there is a $50 refund voucher if you purchase it in may-june
I paid 920 less 50 = $870 cash :D

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Posted by quietguy
Re: Nuvi 310

bemad54 wrote:
Great little unit. Battery life min 4 hrs .. enough to walk and play. Purchased this in MEL set it up in my car and in La Trobe St (city) had sat fix in few minutes (tho about 200 metres off untill I got moving). Arround suburbs got me where I wanted to go, no probs, but as this is unfamiliar city can't rate performance.



While I know what you mean, I think that the real test is if the Nuvi gets you where you want to go in a city you are unfamilier with, that is good performance. I bought mine in Wagga and set off for an address way down the peninsular in Melbs outer suburbs - it took me right to the front door of where I needed to go.

On another trip to the ACT things were a little more complex, as I missed a few turns because the Nuvi called out too late, and on a couple of occasions I didn't tune in to the 'distance to turn' info.

One really annoying 'feature' I encountered was not knowing which way to turn when exiting shopping centre carparks - Nuvi might say 'proceed 1.6 km North on xxxx street' but as I drove out of the car park (at night or in city canyon) how the hell could I tell which way was North?

But I love my Nuvi

David

Posted by Guest
Re: Nuvi 310

Lloyd wrote:
Purchased one of these a couple of days back, up graded the software to version 2.9

The one main problem I have with it so far is that I cannot get it to ignore the Moggill Ferry, yes I have the 'Avoid Ferries' opyion selected. Any trip south of my residence and it goes the ferry, ignores Mt Crosby and Kenmore routes.

I have also tried using the shortest and fasted but no difference.

Is there an Australian Garmin tech support? or do I have to contact the states?


Have had the same problem today on my Nuvi 660 for the Moggill ferry too. The ferry closes at something like 5:30, so you simply cant cross. You put in "Avoid ferries" but you are taken to the ferry regardless. You read the list of instructions and it still says "board ferry". Was extremely inconvenient. I also had the same question regarding tech support. I will contact sensis and see if the problem is coming from their end.

Posted by guest0999
nuvi 310 probs

Hi All,
I tried to update my nuvi 310 map and now i get a message 'no map data available' when i try to put in an address.....It doesnt work!!
Can anyone assist?

Garmin



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