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I bought it because it saved me wiring in my TT 400 and i thought I'd get on with it. I didn't.
Warranty for what? for the Sat Nav? I don't have it anymore and it's a standalone warranty for the NAV. I seriously doubt that unplugging a plug will void anything except the feed to the adaptor which was, afterall, the intention. I bought the Sat Nav seperately (i.e. not included in the PCP deal) The adaptor I will keep because that IS part of the bike as sold and they may want it back when and if I choose to return the bike in 3 years time. If I sell the bike later on then the buyer may want it.
Or perhaps you're talking about the warranty for the harness. Err, I'm not using it and never will. By the time I sell the bike It won't be under warranty.
There are a plethora of reasons I didn't much care for the Garmin product. Basecamp is one major one. I know there are other planning programs you can use but I quickly lost patience with trying to get EXACTLY the route i wanted to show on my satnav (yes I have spent hours looking at youtube and reading threads).
TO me, Garmin is Windows; spend hours and hours trying to get something to work; it's too clever for its own good and it thinks it is cleverer than the user.
TomTom.....well, TT just works. A bit like Apple to which I converted some 10 years ago and never looked back because in man-hours alone I have saved myself twice its price and it has lasted three times as long as any Windows computer I have ever had.
TT:
lifetime maps AND lifetime safety cameras for the whole of the EU. I have Sygic (£32) for the USA.
The camera warnings are clear and it comes up with a side bar with DTG; a rapid glance confirms that the 'bing" you heard is for the camera. It's extremely accurate too.
You can modify the DTG warning to almost any distance.
The planning software (albeit you need a connection to internet but where do you never have that?) is so easy to use, the transfer is instant and correct EVERY time.
It's easier to plan on the fly.
In TT you put a start and finish waypoint in, it then shows you a route on a map, then you alter the route by dragging and dropping (and it stays there). To do most of that on a Garmin you need to go through a number of open windows, ensure you are in the right "mode", do you have the hand tool? the pen, the elastic band? Arrggggh! I JUST WANT TO PLAN A BLOODY ROUTE.
And don't get me started on having to have EXACTLY the same settings on BC as you do on the NAV or the fact that it likes to thnk it knows better than you and proceed to reroute you on the fly because you haven't put enough waypoints in between 'c' & 'd'!!
I don't need the parameters page; oil t's and p's, tyre pressure, speed etc because I have a TFT with all of that on it already. I don't need a compass (I have that on my TT) because I don't go riding in deserts and remote areas. And to be honest, if I did, I wouldn't be rlying on an electrical apparatus for one! My phone/music comes through my F5MC via my TFT or directly fro the TT so I have control of media (via TFT), just not my NAV. But I don't control those things on the move anyway; I think it's a dangerous thing to do.
I bought it with a 20% discount and am selling it for the same money to a friend.
What is more, I am just about to set about planning my route from Valencia to Canfranc Station in the Pyrennees and back in the full knowledge that it's going to work seamlessly!!
Rant over, sorry for going off topic but you did ask.
Regards to all.