My Magellan GPS is going tits up...

[Av8er]

Are you able to load .GPX routes into the autombile GPS?

[Bighutch14]

The handlebar ram mounts work great too but I wanted my gps in the center and up near the bottom of the windshield if you dont mind it on your bars then it is a good option

[Bighutch14]

Are you able to load .GPX routes into the autombile GPS?

I have never learned or tried to load routes. I would assume you can but not positive. I would like to learn how to bulld and load a custom route. Maybe during the winter I can dink around with that.

[crossbowme]

I have a Garmin Zumo 660 and drove thru 2 days of constant rain without any problems. Still runs great.

[willtill]

...I just figured out yesterday what was wrong with my Magellan (I think)

Rust

The power connector to the side of it seemed to have some discoloration; I had examined it closer yesterday and started cleaning it with WD40. Seems that some surface rust was present.

Plugged it back in and it didn't misbehave at all for the entire day of riding. So I think that the unit was not getting a good supply of juice and that's why it was going bonkers.

What makes matters worse is that I ordered and received a replacement Garmin Drive 51 LM 5 GPS yesterday Now I gots two

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/garmin-...=ref:212,loc:2

I'm going to clean both of the male and female power connection areas with some electrical contact cleaner today, and then follow up with a nice glob of dielectric grease to protect it. Should have known to protect that connector from the elements; after all this GPS is not "weatherproof" as was aptly demonstrated to me.

[choptop]

A guy can never have enough GPS's !

[willtill]

A guy can never have enough GPS's !

Apparently not. To my horror... the CRC Electrical contact cleaner JUST MELTED a portion of my Magellan's plastic case

Not for use on plastics.

Another word to the wise from stoopid here... do not use electrical contact cleaner on a plastic GPS case

[choptop]

I stand corrected, I guy can actually have to many partially melted GPS's.

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It was an $89.00 Costco special a little over 3 years ago.. now it (with more frequency) is starting to suddenly shut off and reboot; showing bars on the screen and all of that nonsense. And then it sometimes comes back. The little hole in the back to reset it doesn't seem to have much effect either now.

I think that the jarring from the F6B's front end over rough road has started to do the little guy in. It always was a familiar friend right in front of me... guiding me to places I've never been.

Be hating to deep six it....

....but will be on the prowl for another cheap GPS very soon. I'm not dropping hundreds on a motorcycle GPS... the economical automobile GPS seem to work just as well.

The environment for a GPS on a motorcycle is much more harsh than a car. I am wondering though... if a GPS made for a motorcycle is actually "hardened" against more transmitted road shock while in use?

Of course they are. That's the whole premise of a moto gps.

You get what you pay for.....mostly.