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Hmmm, you know when dogs get puzzled and they rotate their heads sideways? Maybe they have polarized lenses 😂. Polarized lenses are good at rivers, lakes, streams and the beach. They allow you to see into the water so much better. Can have an issue with some matte screen GPS’s though.

Thank you good sir!

Checking back on this. Does your DriveSmart 66 experience any lags/delays while navigating the menu? Mine does and I don't know why. When a tap some buttons sometimes it will take about 1 second for the unit to respond. I tried to reproduce this isssue on my DriveSmart 65 and the 65 was more responsive than the 66.

Yep, still using that "thing" as a backup device on my motorcycle with Osm maps. Works like a charm.. Ed.

It sucks

Nice find

Like the Up Ahead and Along My Route features. In the past was frustrated on long trips when say I searched for gas and it would show them from 10 miles back from where I just was. Yeah, I’m not going back for that. Up Ahead and Along My Route make that so much better. Still wish I could set distance parameters from the gps on Along My Route, like you can with custom poi’s and the poi loader.

Another great informative video thank you 👍🏻

i have bought the DS 65 because my 61 broke, got a really good deal on ebay, only 50$. overall i am very satisfied with this unit

Thank you for this video (and the others on the 52 that I have yet to watch. I have a 52 on its way to me now, from Amazon). I also just bought the guide book you wrote on the 52 (Kindle). Based on this video I think I am getting the right GPS for me. (After many years and many models of Tom Tom)

I used a regular mini usb plug into my Garmin 54LM. It powered on OK, but it would not find sats. Soon as i plugged in the official Garmin 12v car plug it worked fine. Is that a common problem? I wanted to share the lighter socket with a bluetooth dongle, but that caused the issue. I have another 12v ciggy socket but was just wondering if the generic usb was the issue? Thanks!

Hello, I just bought this model and I couldn't get a definitive answer from Garmin automotive support if it's free US maps and traffic. Would you happen to know? Thank you and great informative videos.

Awesome, thank you!

Great use case and would not have thought of that…..I’m going to try it out. Really is great in very familiar trips where you already know where you’re going. It allows you to overcome your selective perception and explore. Selective perception…..it’s said we only pick up on a small amount of things that are going on around us at a given time. May be as little as 5-10%. One of the best examples of this is if you are shopping for a new car. Before doing so you likely didn’t see many of that particular model car on the road. While shopping all of a sudden you see that car a LOT on the roadways. The same amount of that model car was always there. Now while shopping for it, you selectively perceive it and see more of them on the roadways. We tend to have a narrow band of what we focus on. This can expand that band.

Thanks. Great video and like the editing where you switch from the Nuvi to the Drive. I’m guessing the difference noted between the nuvis and Drive/DriveSmarts, etc., is due to processing power. The same demarcation exists in those units in the Up Ahead feature. In the nuvi’s you see just the icons for gas stations, banks, and restaurants. If you want details you have to touch the icon. In the Drives/DriveSmarts and forward, you see the actual name of the establishments in each of the three categories…..and it dynamically updates as you drive. It’s a quick update too….literally as soon as you pass the exit where a gas station was listed, it shows the next closest gas station. As mentioned previously I REALLY like that feature on long trips in unfamiliar territory. By seeing the name of the upcoming restaurant it may help gauge how rural the next area is. I recall seeing an upcoming Cracker Barrel in an area where I would have expected something like Cleets hot dog stand.

Thanks! Good info to know. Was playing around with it and oddly it didn’t do a good job finding Costco’s along the route. It DID find things where those letters were in sequence such as “Cost containment co” or similar. So search seems different in this way versus just searching “where to” on normal startup screen. Makes me wonder what the distance parameters are for “along my route”. Based on above I believe it has to be VERY close to route. Years ago before before GPS’s got much better at searching with the advent of things like Foursquare, I used to add custom poi’s ( points of interest) for things like Costco, Walmart, etc. It was then possible to set a proximity alert and choose the distance. So, if you were driving and within say 2 miles of a Walmart the gps would notify you and you could choose to go there. Funny, I’m remembering one I had setup for Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives ( aka Triple D) and with that I used a further proximity alert as they are not as common. Fun thing to have on a road trip and I may set those up again. What’s old may become new again 😀 Would be nice if you could choose your own distance of what along my route means.

It didnt work in the philippines

Can i pay you to install the usa maps on a few garmin 67i? I can send you them 1 at a time. Im sure we can work out a price that yur hapy with. I want to give my family a few of these in case of a grid down scenario. Please contact me if your interested. Thank you

Thank you. Thank you.

Thanks! Good info to know. It’s also why I prefer “Up Ahead” showing versus the turns list. I like the quick ability to see what’s coming up. I do understand where the turns list is useful as well, especially in places where you may have to make several quick turns. I like seeing all of the gas stations listed along the route. Makes it easy to locate a favorite gas station brand. Some gas stations have good eats 😅. I’m guessing there might be a way to specifically show only your favorite brand gas stations along the route. Let’s use grocery stores as an example…how would you show all Publix stations along the route?

Is it loud enough?

Thanks for the video. Is there a way, while editing the route, to enable, let's say, gas station icons so that I could select as many as needed, especially in a long route (city to city)? Also, have you found a way to enable favorite icons on the map? I'd greatly appreciate your feedback. Thank you.

Is there a way to create a route, search for gas stations along the route, add them, and save the route? I have tried in a number of ways, but I can only add gas stations closest to the starting point or to the arrival point. Nothing in between. Using a drivesmart 86. Thanks for this video, by the way. Informative and to the point.

I downloaded either Europe and Usa files. Unfortunately the zip files do not contain .img files but files with other extensions. I tried to copy them into the garmin folder of an SD card but they didn't work. Any suggestion ? Thanks

Thank you

Hi would you be able to do a uk map please. Much appreciated.

Good info to know. Nice that they can be transferred to older models.

at this point I am ready to hire a local to just point.

Thanks good info. Definitely could have used this on a long trip in unfamiliar territory when the highway was suddenly closed just before a bridge. The traffic jam became enormous. Was willing to drive a distance to another bridge and did. Unfortunately, afterwards unbeknownst to me the GPS did it’s thing where it likes to bring you right back to as close to the prior route you were on so it brought me right into the enormous traffic jam. Had I known about this and route shaping I would have had a way to avoid the probably 1.5 hours in traffic.

Ever seen the SD card slot not work? I could not update to the full NA set as it will not recognize the memory expansion.

Thanks

Do you have some kind of update for European maps?

Why does it say "File not found. Check the file name and try again?" None of them will add to my themes folder :(

Haven’t watched all of this yet and you may have touched upon this in another video. Easiest way ( to me) to add favorites to a new or used Garmin is to connect gps to computer and go into Garmin Express. Add new device to Garmin Express. Going from memory here so may be a little off…. On the bottom left hand side click on TOOLS and when that opens click UTILITIES. Scroll down and it will say COPY FAVORITES from and to. Choose the Garmin that has all of your favorites as the from, and the new to you and currently connected to computer Garmin, as the to. Click OK or Transfer and voila the favorites are now on the new to you Garmin.

After watching your newer release video on the 2699lmthd, I decided to break out my 2599lmthd and use it again on some drives. You are right, it is lightning fast in route calculations! Almost shockingly so. Definitely a plus there. An area for improvement is in the traffic display. I was using the “up ahead” traffic feature and it was showing no traffic. After getting caught in traffic a few times I I went to settings and traffic and noticed it was searching for a provider. So it was not receiving traffic signals yet it was telling me “no traffic along my route”. That’s definitely frustrating. It should have a different signal, symbol, or message when it’s not receiving traffic rather than telling you there’s no traffic. I live in an area that has both regular and hd traffic coverage. At some point I also went into Apps and traffic. In one of the screens it was showing “searching for update”. So it’s likely I had updated the software and it was searching for the update on traffic while being connected to satellite. That was after quite a long drive already so it didn’t make sense…..would have thought it would have updated prior. Please don’t tell me there’s no traffic while I’m sitting in bumper to bumper traffic numerous times. I’d much rather have a message “ no traffic signal being received” or “ working on getting traffic signal “. I’m with you that I liked that traffic symbol in an older version where it showed either the green, yellow, or red ring around the round traffic cars symbol depending if there was no traffic, some traffic, or serious traffic on the route. Perhaps something like that with an X through the cars meaning no traffic signal received. Still, it’s lightning fast. Now that’s it’s traffic is updated MAYBE it’s better. Definitely a good backup gps.

@sat103. great video, however when trying to create a new map in basecamp (11:46 into your video) I dont see my map selection (OMC EUROPE) on the bottom, I only have my original Garmin America maps? any ideas?

How do you make the map colored on the left side and real time road view on the right?

Download the maps and get the instruction manual here sat103.com

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Is there an apple equivalent? Thanks

Appreciate the info. Would have never discovered that myself.

I totally agree... its not the easiest GPS to drive. I fly aircraft that have complex functions, that are easier to work than this Garmin drive 61 I am using. All I want to do is find a page with all my waypoints or town/city routes showing together, but wow its hard. As yet its non existent. The last gps I had in my car was called Navigator or Navcom or something like that, but it was super easy to drive. It seems to me the designers , of Garmin drive really have little experience on the practical side. I always maintain if you want a good designer, use one who has actually worked in the field on such things. But as you say bro.... this one is better than nothing.

Hola , soporta agregarle mapas? gracias

So would you say from a traffic standpoint that this is equivalent to using both a GTM 36 and a GTM 60 at the same time?

I got mine at goodwill for 19 bucks. Taking it 1000 miles to the beach later this month. Didn’t have the money for an in dash screen so hopefully this’ll work out well!

Picked up a 2699 for $30 shipped on eBay a few months ago, works great after updating!

Yes, I was correct that this is 1 of only 2 6-inch models with HD traffic. The other is the DS60LMTHD, which does exist. Regular RDS traffic coverage map: coverage.here.com/rds-coverage.html HD traffic coverage map: coverage.here.com/hd-coverage.html

Thanks. The best part of this video for me was using the trip planner while having GPS simulator enabled.

Do any newer models work under heated and solar attenuated windshields?? My drive smart 61 will NOT get any satellites under this windshield!