Experience with Nuvi 465T

I personally have the RM TND500 and I had the Garmin 465 previously. I would have to say hands down that in my experiences so far the RM unit blows the Garmin away. Don't get me wrong Garmin has its strong points, but there are so many features RM has over it.

Please check out the thread on RM on this forum, lots of good info there. I am very happy with mine and they are constantly updating the units (free of charge as of now) and taking input from customers and correcting things to make it even better.

Talk to Mark on the other thread.......he is very knowledgeable on RM unit.

Good Luck!

 

I have a Garmin unit from several years ago. A street pilot. The unit has worked well for me over the years. The map updates seemed a bit expensive for what it actually updated.


When the 465T was announced I was looking forward to its release. The price was a bit of a problem for me, thats a lot of money for a GPS.


I did get hold of a Goodyear branded unit, the GY500X. The unit has a few things that are good. The thing is built like a tank, very rugged case, the mount is good and the 12V plug is solid. It does come with an external antenna as well. Thats about all the good I can say about it. Very difficult to use and set up. The manual, if you could call it that, is a joke. Just did not perform as advertised. Not sure why, but it always wanted to send me to North Carolina for all the POIs. The unit was returned in short order.


I know a few people with the 465T, and talked to some others that had one. They all seemed to have problems with the units. Data errors mostly. Routes seemed to be off a few miles and somewhat less than the optimum.


I had been hearing rumors of a Rand McNally unit and had been watching for some news, then I started seeing advertisements for it.


I purchased one back in October. It has not performed well and seems to have a problem. I don't know if it is just this unit or if others are having like problems.


A potential solution to the problems I have been having are in the works. It may take a few weeks to see if this works. I hope so, the unit is not cheap.


Based on my experience with the unit so far, I can not recommend purchasing one right now.
That may change in the near future.


If they can get the bugs worked out, it has potential.

 

have you contacted Garmin about the problems? I know there have been some updates recently for most of the units. I have a Nuvi 780 that I use in the truck in conjunction with my Motor Carriers and I've had to download updates for it twice this year. Keep in mind the 465 is a new unit, there is a learning curve to it and the only way Garmin will fix problems is if they are aware of it. The exit ramp problem I think is very common with all GPS units so I normally don't worry about it.

 

I just got my Garmin this week 465T

Is there any way to increase the notification distance for scales? At this point its only 4-5 miles. this is a bit short if I need to get off a exit ramp

Thanks

 

How does the rand mcnally do in large cites like chicago or new york philly ectt..... ?