Garmin GPS

I've been thinking of replacing our older Garmin with their new RV 760LMT. It's currently on pre-order, so I was waiting to see reviews by others before buying.

CloudDriver wrote:
I've been thinking of replacing our older Garmin with their new RV 760LMT. It's currently on pre-order, so I was waiting to see reviews by others before buying.

Same here. Like the fact it has a audio out jack

We have owned a 465T for two years and it has done a pretty good job. There's only one aspect of using it that may be improved upon by the new RV 760 and that's what happens when a route you want to use is truck-restricted but not RV-restricted.

Sometimes truck-restricted roads are unsuitable for large vehicles, in general, so staying off them is a good thing. On occasion, however, you encounter roads that are truck-restricted because the town or whatever doesn't want commercial vehicles on them but RVs would be OK. The 465T can't make that distinction, the newer Garmin RV GPS can.

This issue did create a bit of a nuisance for us one time when it turned out that the CG we were headed to was on a truck-restricted road so the Garmin was trying to get us to the CG by minimizing the distance we traveled on that road. However, in doing so it was leading us "hither and yon" on some pretty narrow and winding roads that didn't happen to be truck-restricted. When we finally gave up and switched the GPS to "car" mode it suddenly said something like "turn at the next corner and you'll be at your destination".:S

But that was only one time in ~25,000 miles of driving so I can't get all that upset about it, not enough to replace it. The new GPS has lots of RV-related points of interest built-in, but with a smart phone these days most of that sort of stuff is readily available IMHO.

We had the same experience as docj with our 465T. I always compared the route it chose with Google maps or a paper map before accepting it as gospel. Once it refused to route us correctly to the Grand Canyon North area since those roads are truck restricted. It kept trying to make us take the back forest roads which are all gravel! Since I always made sure the route was what I wanted before we departed I never had a problem but it did make spur of the moment changes in route less likely. We used it for two years traveling all over the Southwest and Northeast before getting the RVND7720 by Rand McNally for the current trip. I like it much better though it has a very steep learning curve. It is programmed for an RV and has much better points of interest in it as well.

I purchased the Garmin 3590LMT. Only used it a few times. I find the maps on my smart phone works much better. It is auto updated more often and seems a lot more accurate. I use the "low clearance" app and "aitaonbline.com" for my tunnel and bridge clearance. Plus the truckers atlas. JMHO

The new Garmin RV GPS will be out in a few days and it has many advanced features. If you are using this in your RV get the Garmin RV or truck with RV mode (dezi) GPS.

The Garmin Nuvi 465LMT is a time tested solid unit. But unfortunately its aging. The new generation of GPS units sport all kinds of new features, functionality, and responsiveness. I was an owner of a 465 before switching to a DEZL 760(the brother to the RV 760 GPS). There is really no comparison. I agree with the other postsers, the new RV 760 GPS from garmin is probably the way to go if your not scared off by the cost difference between the 465 and the 760.

This RV GPS comparison and this forum consistenly reports that both units are best in class. So either way you should be getting the best of the best.

Actually, after looking at the link you provided I decided there isn't anything about the new GPS that makes it so much better than my 465T. The new one has voice navigation which is a "nice to have on occasion" but not a big deal and Junction View which probably is an nice asset, but not worth replacing a device over. Beyond that the quick comparison table didn't show any other differences except for the large.r screen and a much shorter battery life for the ones with the big screens. I honestly don't care about the points of interest because we use the smart phones for those 99% of the time. Thanks for the link; I just saved myself money

docj wrote:
We have owned a 465T for two years and it has done a pretty good job. There's only one aspect of using it that may be improved upon by the new RV 760 and that's what happens when a route you want to use is truck-restricted but not RV-restricted.

Sometimes truck-restricted roads are unsuitable for large vehicles, in general, so staying off them is a good thing. On occasion, however, you encounter roads that are truck-restricted because the town or whatever doesn't want commercial vehicles on them but RVs would be OK. The 465T can't make that distinction, the newer Garmin RV GPS can.

This issue did create a bit of a nuisance for us one time when it turned out that the CG we were headed to was on a truck-restricted road so the Garmin was trying to get us to the CG by minimizing the distance we traveled on that road. However, in doing so it was leading us "hither and yon" on some pretty narrow and winding roads that didn't happen to be truck-restricted. When we finally gave up and switched the GPS to "car" mode it suddenly said something like "turn at the next corner and you'll be at your destination".:S

But that was only one time in ~25,000 miles of driving so I can't get all that upset about it, not enough to replace it. The new GPS has lots of RV-related points of interest built-in, but with a smart phone these days most of that sort of stuff is readily available IMHO.

This has been exactly our experience as well. Really like the 465T, but it's inability to tell the difference between commercial truck and RV routing has led us on some pretty convoluted routes. For this reason and a few others, I've pre-ordered the Garmin RV 760LMT (not to be confused with the DEZL 760LMT). The ability to connect it to my iPhone's wifi hotspot for real time weather displays is another. Too bad it won't get here before we head out to the Tetons, Yellowstone, and Black Hills tomorrow morning...