Originally Posted by
d-shark
Ordered a TomTom Rider GPS today.
Have just had it with Garmin's poor customer support, poor mapping software (base camp) and awful map updating software. Had a Quest 2 which was OK. After a couple of years decided to upgrade the maps. Garmin site sad YES, there is a map update for your GPS. Paid the 50 bucks and then it said SORRY, not enough memory in your unit. Made the mistake of replacing it with the Nuvi 550 which for the money was not bad. Guess what happened recently when I update the maps. That's right, Garmin took my 50 bucks and then SORRY, not enough memory. Well this time I was able to install an SD card which Garmin was too cheap to provide. After several hours I finally got the Garmin upgrade software to load the purchased maps on to the SD card (a nightmare). Well 1,500 miles later at night somewhere out in the middle of Alabama the 550 can not access the 50 dollar map upgrade (corrupt file I guess). Right now I'd rather stick needles in my eyes than give Garmin another dollar.
I like the idea that TomTom uses Tyre planning software that is Google Maps based and that regular map updates are included in the reasonable purchase price (reasonable compared to Garmin prices). Just wondering if others have made the jump to TomTom ???