Successor to the StreetPilot 2660?

I have a StreetPilot 2620 that I was persuaded to buy against my better
judgement, rather than the 2660 I wanted at the time. Two years experience
has shown I was right and the block-head salesman who streered me away from
the more expensive dead-reckoning 2660 was wrong.

I'm just back from Austria and Switzerland where the 2620 repeatedly let me
down when I needed it most, so I want to replace it with a dead-reckoning
unit. A quick glance at the Garmin website shows no obvious successor to
the 2660. Is there one? If not, what would people suggest? (Note that the
2660 has a full database for all of Europe pre-loaded, which is why I looked
at these units in the first place.)

Roy

Were you traveling in your car or a rental? The DR units have extra pieces
that get installed in the vehicle and aren't easily transferable.

Also, have you tried an external antenna? My 2610 works great in my car,
but awful in my wife's van. An external antenna fixed that.

It was my car, and I use a truly excellent Gilsonn external antenna.
Without it the 2620 is virtually unusable in my Land Rover (which has a
heated windshield, with fine conductors embedded in it). With it, it works
very well when the antenna has a clear view of the sky, but in very deep
mountain valleys and Swiss tunnels with complex underground junctions, even
the external antenna is entirely useless.

I am aware that the DR 2660 unit needs to be connected to the transmission,
but it will automatically switch to non-DR 2620 mode when it is installed
temporarily in another vehicle.

Roy

OK, just making sure as you didn't mention the extra detail in your original
post. Was hoping a $30 (US) fix might save you the hassle of a $1K swap.


Yup.

Roy Hann wrote:

If you drive a mobile home, a large truck or your dash is expansive
enough, then you might be able to use a Garmin Streetpilot 7500.