Garmin Street Pilot III Deluxe In-Car GPS $484 @ Buy.com

[bman46]

Garmin Street Pilot III Deluxe In-Car GPS Navigation System only $484 at buy.com after $15 off $200 coupon which can be found at my favorite coupon site. This is a reconditioned unit but I believe these retail at $899 and up. Heres some info on it:

In-car satellite navigation for an entire market of car owners
Select destination & Street Pilot III calculates route & displays directions
Driver can be guided with voice prompts or can see visual mapped directions
Totally portable; 16-color, high resolution display
Built-in Routable America basemap includes US highways with exit information
Indefinite memory
Includes:
Street Pilot III City Navigator CD-ROM
USB programmer
128 MB chip
Automotive mount
Bean bag mount
PC cable
Cigarette lighter adapter with speaker
Full detailed coverage of the United States & Canada (urban & rural)
90 Day Manufacturer Warranty

Happy navigating 😉

 

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[Pothead]

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[GusSmed]

Actually, you can get one of these from Amazon for $530, shipped. I purchased mine a bit over a year ago for about $800.

It works really well, and I've gotten a lot of use out of it. This remains about the cheapest car navigation system you're going to see that features voice and color maps.

It does have a few drawbacks. For one, it lacks the touchscreen that the newer Garmin car nav system that replaces it has. Entering addresses is kind of slow, because you must scroll through the letters of the name, rather than just "typing" them. I've also had some problems getting it to stick to my dash. The beanbag mount works pretty well for most cars, but my car has a sharply sloping dash. The "permanent" adhesive for the permanent mount gives up pretty quickly in freezing weather.

If anyone has any suggestions as to adhesives that will keep a one-pound object stuck to my dash, through sudden acceleration (I drive a sports car) in 10-20 degree weather, given a mount with roughly 6 square inches of surface area, I'd like to hear them. In the meantime I wedge the beanbag mount against the instrument panel hood and the windshield, and it mostly stays.

- Gus

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: GusSmed
Actually, you can get one of these from Amazon for $530, shipped. I purchased mine a bit over a year ago for about $800.

It works really well, and I've gotten a lot of use out of it. This remains about the cheapest car navigation system you're going to see that features voice and color maps.

It does have a few drawbacks. For one, it lacks the touchscreen that the newer Garmin car nav system that replaces it has. Entering addresses is kind of slow, because you must scroll through the letters of the name, rather than just "typing" them. I've also had some problems getting it to stick to my dash. The beanbag mount works pretty well for most cars, but my car has a sharply sloping dash. The "permanent" adhesive for the permanent mount gives up pretty quickly in freezing weather.

If anyone has any suggestions as to adhesives that will keep a one-pound object stuck to my dash, through sudden acceleration (I drive a sports car) in 10-20 degree weather, given a mount with roughly 6 square inches of surface area, I'd like to hear them. In the meantime I wedge the beanbag mount against the instrument panel hood and the windshield, and it mostly stays.

- Gus

JB WELD

 

[tnitsuj]

Industrial strength velcro

 

[bman46]

Originally posted by: GusSmed
Actually, you can get one of these from Amazon for $530, shipped. I purchased mine a bit over a year ago for about $800.

It works really well, and I've gotten a lot of use out of it. This remains about the cheapest car navigation system you're going to see that features voice and color maps.

It does have a few drawbacks. For one, it lacks the touchscreen that the newer Garmin car nav system that replaces it has. Entering addresses is kind of slow, because you must scroll through the letters of the name, rather than just "typing" them. I've also had some problems getting it to stick to my dash. The beanbag mount works pretty well for most cars, but my car has a sharply sloping dash. The "permanent" adhesive for the permanent mount gives up pretty quickly in freezing weather.

If anyone has any suggestions as to adhesives that will keep a one-pound object stuck to my dash, through sudden acceleration (I drive a sports car) in 10-20 degree weather, given a mount with roughly 6 square inches of surface area, I'd like to hear them. In the meantime I wedge the beanbag mount against the instrument panel hood and the windshield, and it mostly stays.

- Gus

That EZ-Pass Plastic Velcro holds virtually anything in place no matter what!

 

[GusSmed]

Thanks for the suggestions. I did a Google search and came up with a suction-cup windshield mount for $20 here. I swear, I went looking for a solution before, and didn't find this - I don't know why I found it this time. I ordered one and got it in the mail yesterday (surprisingly fast) and it works. I haven't subjected it to cold weather or really hard acceleration as yet, but I'm pretty sure I'm set now.

There's another mount I found on this site, but it was $50 instead of $20, and I was a bit put off by the fact they recommend you remove part of the Garmin mount to us it (see the instructions).

The one obvious advantage of the $50 RAM mount over the $20 Gilsson mount is that the RAM mount allows you to turn the GPS in any direction i.e. to face the driver, and the Glisson mount can't do that.

- Gus