Suppport Thread for the TND 500, TND 700 or future Rand McNally products.

It is actually the 700. Don't know why i was thinking it was the 710. The serial number is B06T7E997260. I don't have the cc receipt as it was a gift for Christmas of 2010. If needed I am sure the person who bought it for me still has it.

 

Just wanted to poke my fat lil' head in here and update a bit.

Bought a refurbished 500 back around March (I think....I can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning...you get the idea...). Really wanted to see how it worked before dropping a few hundred more on a new one. I paid $149 for this one, but it didn't come with any capability to retrieve map updates.

I've enjoyed this unit very much. Very user-friendly. Only seems to "freeze up" when I'm in what is, according to it anyway, is a cow pasture or other such uninhabited or undeveloped area (a large warehouse facility will also cause it to throw it's virtual hands up and say 'WTF??').

So, on my Christmas wish list this year is the 720. I'm optimistic that this should last for the remainder of my OTR career, which I am hoping is no more than another three years.

Mark...many thanks again for the help, advice, and information.

 

Yeah, I think that's it. But since there are no map updates available, I'll just buy a new one. The original reason for purchasing a refurbed model was to give it a "test-drive", and I've done that. But now I'm finding more roads a little more often that I haven't ever run (or last ran long ago) that have changed, and newer info is becoming more important. But I just got the OK from wifey for the purchase, so it looks like the 720 will be adorning my dashboard in a few weeks...

 

Dang, could have sworn it said something about lifetime maps. So how do I go about getting an update to the map? Looked around the RM website and didn't see any SD cards with maps for sale.

 

Hi Mark,

I went to GPS Data like you said and here is what it says:

Device Status: No Signal
GPS State: No
Speed: 0 mph
Altitude: 0 ft
Heading: 0 Geg
DOP: 60.00
Satelilites Used/Seen: 0/13

Nothing extra in the cab except AM/FM radio,no satellite radio or cb. Had it outside for 30 minutes sitting on the fence, 50 from anything.

I did try it at numerous loactions, keep getting no signal.

Purchased the unit last year in December.

Rahn

P.S. It does very between 12 and 14 satellites the it sees. So it is seeing them.