{"id":742,"date":"2009-02-07T00:53:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T07:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/?p=742"},"modified":"2010-03-21T00:55:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T07:55:57","slug":"go-garmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/2009\/02\/07\/go-garmin\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Garmin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a Garmin Zumo 550<\/a> GPS unit that I bought in summer of \u201807 for my trip back to Colorado<\/a>. It\u2019s really a great unit \u2014 it does the GPS thing, obviously, and it also plays MP3s, so I have about 2 gb of music loaded on it with a plug running from the headphone jack to the input on my Harley\u2019s radio. It also does Bluetooth for a cell phone or for helmet speakers if I had them, but I get enough crap from the guys for riding a Goldwing as it is. I like to joke that between the fairing, the speakers, the cup holder, the cruise control, the GPS, and the heated vest, all I need now is cable TV.<\/p>\n

Aaaaanyway\u2026 So I got the Zumo back in July of \u201807 and it\u2019s been great. I use it every time I ride the bike, and it came with a separate car mount so I can use it there too. It\u2019s been great. Until recently, when it went haywire.<\/p>\n

The touchscreen started acting up and got worse and worse until it was virtually unusable. So I called Garmin and found out that they warranty these things for a year, which was great, only I had bought mine a year and a half ago so I was six months out of warranty, which was bad. But the guy on the phone said they\u2019d cover it anyway, which was great again. So I shipped my Zumo off to them, felt naked without it for a week or so, and they sent me a \u201cnew\u201d one back (I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s new or refurbished and I don\u2019t care) and now I know where I\u2019m going again.<\/p>\n

So that was pretty cool. And the coolest part is that on top of them covering it even though I was out of warranty, the new unit also had the updated maps for 2009. Score!<\/p>\n

Garmin gets two thumbs up from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a Garmin Zumo 550 GPS unit that I bought in summer of \u201807 for my trip back to Colorado. It\u2019s really a great unit \u2014 it does the GPS thing, obviously, and it also plays MP3s, so I have about 2 gb of music loaded on it with a plug running from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}