Strange voice warning, (Are they coming from my head) ?

Steve,
Thank you very much for your reply. The motor home is at the dealer for several other discrepancies. (I can't believe the way she has been treated and some of the things the dealership has tried to pull on her) I would not recommend this dealership to anyone.

Anyway, once the moho comes.back, I will take your advice and do a check of the SD card and program updates.

I have the same Back-Seat Driver that drove me nuts. It is especially annoying when you are wide awake and driving the same route for the 100th time. I don't need to be reminded of every twist and turn and hill along the way. However, some of the settings can be useful especially when you are navigating unfamiliar roads.

Our unit is a Winnebago installed Xite 9" Infotainment Center with the Rand McNally RVGPS Navigation and Routing for RVs. The first thing you need to do is install the Rand McNally Dock on a computer and take the SD card from the unit and do an update. Almost certainly that by the time the RV is in the owners hands, several updates have been issued. I will bet that a detailed instruction manual was not included; you can download one from Rand McNally. The one I am refering to is RVND 7730. Yours may be the same or similar. My unit got so screwy that I just set the whole thing to factory default and then from there explored all the settings and features. I find the system not very intuitive and awkward to use, but I am used to it now.

I seem to recall hearing something like the RV Violation warning. I think some of the information about the roads are 'Crowd Sourced' like on 'Waze'. If you are carrying propane, you can't use some bridges or tunnels. Some roads have lane restrictions or are closed to all but passenger cars. I'm a little mad about how my GPS told me to stay right and go through a toll plaza that was only for commercial trucks. Once there I could not leave until I paid a toll based on the class of the chassis and how many wheels were on the ground. Not cheap. In the set-up menu, you can enter the type and specifications of the RV. You can tell the unit how you want to be routed; car, RV or truck. There are settings for speed, hills, turns, bridges and tunnels and all sorts of stuff. You can set thresholds or turn off certain features. You just have to go into the menus and see what is there and make changes to suit your situation. For example, I have the speed warning set to Limit + a little extra to keep from speeding. If your GPS knows how big and heavy your RV is, it will tell you that the bridge ahead is a bad idea. One time before I had the RM RVGPS in I tried to get across a river from New Jersey to Pennsylvania and avoid a toll on the Interstate. As I approached the bridge, I saw a sign, "Weight Limit 5 Tons". If I had any thought of crossing that bridge, it went away when I saw a parked patrol car with eyes on traffic. I turned around, got on the Interstate and was a few bucks lighter. Foiled again! It was such a good plan. The GPS did steer me away from going down a road with a killer railroad bridge that would have taken everything off the roof of my Navion.

ok, I contacted Rand McNally Customer Technical Support, and theyhave never heard of this warning either.
Why am I not surprised by this ? :R
The lady I spoke with could only suggest removing the SD Card from the unit,... going online for instructions on scanning for corrupted files, and possible "Repair" of "corrupted software".

I asked if there is any local authorized Rand McNally Service Centers or technicians that I could have look into this, and her reply was "No, We donot have anything like that", and then suggested matbe taking it to Camping World to see if anyone there could help.

Not what I would expect to hear from a companies Customer Tech Support. GRRRRRrrrrrrrr .

well we have confirmed "the voice from above" is coming from the Rand McNally GPS. I looked up some instructional video's and set the speed warning down to 42 mph, (as low as it would go). Travelling above 42 did give a speed warning in the same voice she had previously heard before, but the verbiage was different.

We have not figured out what the "You are in RV violation" warning is all about. She just returned from her second trip in the new rig, and she told me that it did give that warning a few times during the trip.

I have looked at the entire menu for setting the warning parameters, and I can not find anything that would indicate what this warning might be referring to.

I plan to get a hold of Rand McNally Technical Support, and see what light they might be able to shed on this.

Thanks for all the suggestions (And laughs too).

glennts wrote:
How long do you think it will be before driving your RV in violation is a reason to void a warranty.

I don’t think it would void warranty but there could be automated posts to rv.net tattling on driver.

How long do you think it will be before driving your RV in violation is a reason to void a warranty.

It is always nice to have a travel companion :)
I am with the others thinking the nav system or onboard Big Brother.

Check your hearing aid battery. Probably dead.

As long a I take my medications I don't hear the voices anymore.

"speed warning...speed warning" perhaps the robotic voice of the GPS causes "speed" to sound like "rv" at the speeds the vehicle would be traveling for it to activate.