sin_loki
Techno Geek
i ran into the best of luck today, one of my riding friends gave me his Zumo 550 for FREE! :yahoo:
but with all things free, there be some catches.
the story: a few months back my riding buddy got tattooed by a prius when riding his venture, he walked with a broken collar bone and wife broken knee. As of now his collar bone is healed and his wife is just about finished with therapy. he has since then bought a new venture and new toys to go with it (including a new Zumo 550). he wanted to sell his old Zumo but it was working oddly, i asked what he wanted for it and he more or less gave me the box and said "it doesn't work and you good with this type of shit so take it, it's taking space in my garage." now it sits in my hot hands.
whats wrong with it. after a short ride in my truck to pinpoint what is the matter with the unit, it seems that is self shuts down when you enter a specific address. after putting in the street number and hitting done it shuts down, 100% of the time. the unit is updated to 4.30 with 2008 maps loaded on it.
what i think is up with it. it acts like the search function software has a major bug in it, but it will find and guide you to city's. since this unit was involved in a crash (no, the unit stayed in the M/C cradle and was not "ejected") i am thinking it could be that the main or one of (if any) sub processors may have cracked internally and when it tries to "find/process" your input it sorts out and causes it to shut off.
what i have done so far... i have contacted Garmin on this issue. I have seen that since this it out of warranty it would cost $200 to repair it +taxes and shipping
all and all i still think i got a awesome deal, even if it cost me 200 to get it fixed.
now does any one think any different? and think i may be able to repair this my self?
but with all things free, there be some catches.
the story: a few months back my riding buddy got tattooed by a prius when riding his venture, he walked with a broken collar bone and wife broken knee. As of now his collar bone is healed and his wife is just about finished with therapy. he has since then bought a new venture and new toys to go with it (including a new Zumo 550). he wanted to sell his old Zumo but it was working oddly, i asked what he wanted for it and he more or less gave me the box and said "it doesn't work and you good with this type of shit so take it, it's taking space in my garage." now it sits in my hot hands.
whats wrong with it. after a short ride in my truck to pinpoint what is the matter with the unit, it seems that is self shuts down when you enter a specific address. after putting in the street number and hitting done it shuts down, 100% of the time. the unit is updated to 4.30 with 2008 maps loaded on it.
what i think is up with it. it acts like the search function software has a major bug in it, but it will find and guide you to city's. since this unit was involved in a crash (no, the unit stayed in the M/C cradle and was not "ejected") i am thinking it could be that the main or one of (if any) sub processors may have cracked internally and when it tries to "find/process" your input it sorts out and causes it to shut off.
what i have done so far... i have contacted Garmin on this issue. I have seen that since this it out of warranty it would cost $200 to repair it +taxes and shipping
all and all i still think i got a awesome deal, even if it cost me 200 to get it fixed.
now does any one think any different? and think i may be able to repair this my self?
