Garmin C510D

AdeJ · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 09, 2007 Posts: 2

Hi Everyone,
Any help appreciated.

Bought a C510D over Xmas from Halfods to use mainly in our motorhome for UK and a couple of Eurpeon trips planned for the summer. Seemed a great offer at £199 and seeing it reccomended in a Motorhome mag last year took the plunge and invested.
Inital tests in my car proved the unit operating fine, uploaded a POI data base, Speed cameras and purchased the low bridge dtatbase from lowbridges.com

Now all set and ready to go I started playing with some routes from my home and I have soon get really dissapointed with the units route choice!!

I have selected the vehicle as a Bus and a Truck, asked it to avoid Uturns and more importantly Unpaved roads (due to the motorhome size). I have selected the fastest route not the shortest and it still insists on routing me down very narrow unpaved roads that I don't use even in the car. There are proper paved roads (that I use daily) with almost no increase in route length or time.
I am now really concerned that this unit is going to be any use to me at all and that I am going to be fighting down country lanes in a 24 ft motorhome!!
Am I doing something wrong? Or have I bought the wrong Satnav??

Yours,
Ade (puzzled)

dicko-1 · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:05 am Post subject: c510d

hi ade

i use the i3 which is a simler unit in a truck and i have to be very carefull as to where it is sending me, I am lucky i know biggest part of the country well but these devizes do tend to take you down narrow lanes but with a bit of common sence you will be ok.

manufactures have not brought one out for truck drivers & motorhomes
when one of them does they will make a fortune as there are a lot of new young drivers coming into the profesion now and i do not think they can use a map or a2z and rely on sat navs totally.

PS sorry about some of the spelling?

hope this helps you?
I still they are a good thing i would not be without mine now

steve

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