Garmin RV 760LMT any Usage Findings

shoreco wrote:

1775 wrote:

shoreco wrote:
Got mine 2 weeks ago.....so far so good.....luv it

Shoreco - I am also on LI. Will it route you on the Southern State or the Northern State or any of the parkways? I tried the Rand McNally and it routed me on those roads with a 10' height clearance put into the settings. The Rand went back and now I am waiting on hearing what the Garmin RV will do. Thanks!

I am 12'6" and even though I live 1/4 mile off Southern State,it routes me to Sunrise or LIE...

For those of us unfamiliar with your area, what does this mean? Is the GPS routing you properly?

For anyone like me that misses the 3 programable data fields plus speed that are available on Garmin units such as the 1490, they are there in most of the newer Garmins, just hidden. I like to be able to view Altitude, time of arrival & miles to arrival as well as speed.

I talked with Garmin today & after a 30 minute hold, reached a representative that showed me how to find them. Not in any documentation that came with my 3580, but go to settings, tap Map & Vehicle, scroll to and tap Dashboards, hit the right button until 4 fields appear on the bottom of the screen. hit save & they will appear on your map.

While finding this this may be a bit different for the RV 760LMT, according to the rep you can do the same thing with it.

vermilye wrote:
For anyone like me that misses the 3 programable data fields plus speed that are available on Garmin units such as the 1490, they are there in most of the newer Garmins, just hidden. I like to be able to view Altitude, time of arrival & miles to arrival as well as speed.

I talked with Garmin today & after a 30 minute hold, reached a representative that showed me how to find them. Not in any documentation that came with my 3580, but go to settings, tap Map & Vehicle, scroll to and tap Dashboards, hit the right button until 4 fields appear on the bottom of the screen. hit save & they will appear on your map.

Humm, I'm not seeing that on my unit at all. If anyone finds out if it's there on the RV 760 LMT, please post your findings !! LOL

Thanks!

The RV760 LMT unfortunately, is not a dashboard capable unit. I have a 2595 with 4 programmable dashboard areas. You can change the data on the RV7650 LMT dashboard but it is not the same as other dashboard capable units. I really miss it and the lack of dashboards in the RV760LMT may be the reason I sell it. Apparantly Garmin has a bad habit of creating nice features such as dashboards only to remove that feature on the next years units. Are you listening Garmin?

shoreco wrote:

1775 wrote:

shoreco wrote:
Got mine 2 weeks ago.....so far so good.....luv it

Shoreco - I am also on LI. Will it route you on the Southern State or the Northern State or any of the parkways? I tried the Rand McNally and it routed me on those roads with a 10' height clearance put into the settings. The Rand went back and now I am waiting on hearing what the Garmin RV will do. Thanks!

I am 12'6" and even though I live 1/4 mile off Southern State,it routes me to Sunrise or LIE...

Thanks so much for your response. For those not familiar with this area, the RV760 IS routing properly. The parkways that it is routing around have 7'10" height restrictions. The Rand McN RV unit did not do this properly and routed right on to both of those roads.

Pirate wrote:
The RV760 LMT unfortunately, is not a dashboard capable unit. I have a 2595 with 4 programmable dashboard areas. You can change the data on the RV7650 LMT dashboard but it is not the same as other dashboard capable units. I really miss it and the lack of dashboards in the RV760LMT may be the reason I sell it. Apparantly Garmin has a bad habit of creating nice features such as dashboards only to remove that feature on the next years units. Are you listening Garmin?

Sorry to get your hopes up - I guess the guy at Garmin didn't actually check to see that the RV 760 would do the same as my 3580.

I'm not at all sure Garmin listens to their users. Maybe it is just me, but it seems that with every new model series, the drop many of the most useful features or the old model and add new ones that I for one don't need or want. It may be because they are trying to simplify the device for people who don't do a lot of traveling.

Pirate wrote:

shoreco wrote:

1775 wrote:

shoreco wrote:
Got mine 2 weeks ago.....so far so good.....luv it

Shoreco - I am also on LI. Will it route you on the Southern State or the Northern State or any of the parkways? I tried the Rand McNally and it routed me on those roads with a 10' height clearance put into the settings. The Rand went back and now I am waiting on hearing what the Garmin RV will do. Thanks!

I am 12'6" and even though I live 1/4 mile off Southern State,it routes me to Sunrise or LIE...

For those of us unfamiliar with your area, what does this mean? Is the GPS routing you properly?

Yes....

Bucky Badger wrote:
You know what would be nice is if GPS's had a "direct route" mode. To me that would cure a lot of the routing issues..We have "Less Gas" "Fastest Time" or "shortest Distance" Most people use fastest time, sure the GPS most likely save us 4 seconds in that mode, but the direst route would be nice

Be careful what you wish for. Direct route can take you on dirt roads if you select that option. It would be no different than shortest distance and my 7200 will take you on dirt roads with that selected.

brobox wrote:

Bucky Badger wrote:
You know what would be nice is if GPS's had a "direct route" mode. To me that would cure a lot of the routing issues..We have "Less Gas" "Fastest Time" or "shortest Distance" Most people use fastest time, sure the GPS most likely save us 4 seconds in that mode, but the direst route would be nice

Be careful what you wish for. Direct route can take you on dirt roads if you select that option. It would be no different than shortest distance and my 7200 will take you on dirt roads with that selected.

That's the thing there is no option. There would be a time and a place to use it

brobox wrote:

Bucky Badger wrote:
You know what would be nice is if GPS's had a "direct route" mode. To me that would cure a lot of the routing issues..We have "Less Gas" "Fastest Time" or "shortest Distance" Most people use fastest time, sure the GPS most likely save us 4 seconds in that mode, but the direst route would be nice

Be careful what you wish for. Direct route can take you on dirt roads if you select that option. It would be no different than shortest distance and my 7200 will take you on dirt roads with that selected.

Rather than "Direct Route", an option I would love is "Stay on this road until I tell you to take another one." I don't know how many time while driving secondary roads my Garmins have insisted on hopping off the highway I'm on to route me to another or through a city, then back onto the highway I was on. If I want a tour of a near by city, I'll do it; I don't want the Garmin to do it for me!