Third Garmin we have bought over the last 10 years, Never had a problem never got lost

size is great for car

This is, I believe, my 4th Garmin GPS unit. They all have been good, sometimes, one better than the other (depending on the programming). One earlier unit had a "Detour" command you used when you missed your turn or went the wrong direction, which was really good. I believe this command is still there, but is not as up front or convenient as it previously was (maybe I'm wrong). I am not a freeway person, but many times it seems that the unit, most often than not, is directing me there! I unchecked your "Highway" command when my wife told me the unit kept sending her to the interstate. Unfortunately, I don't have my Garmin GPS available to look at while I am writing this. I am a less "bells and whistles" person. I don't use it for traffic. I basically just use it to go somewhere. I am big on coordinates, they have been very helpful in getting me where I want to go. Overall, my Garmin units have been very helpful, but I might add, I can read a map and I use it in conjunction with the GPS unit to look at the big picture.

I've had my old Garmin since 2010 and updated it a couple of times but just couldn't seen to update it again so I bought the 53. It didn't show the neighborhoods that have been built in the past 4 years so I tried to update it but was not able to. Needless to say I'm a little disappointed. It also sends me on some weird route to part of Rapid City that doesn't make any sense at all. Otherwise, if I know an address of a business it can't find I can generally get there using the address.

Nice but could be easier to enter locations.

I like gps that's independent of my phone an doesn't rely on wifi ...

love this item

I moved to a new State. My phone maps was google based. I dont know where i was. I didn't know why. When I lost contact with my phone, I got lost. Because I had experience with Garmin, I decided to buy a new one. I consider myself safe now. Even when satellite did not map a brand new road, or a back country road, it always knew where I was. It made me free to discover my new State.

I like it, it does take getting used to if you have N,S,E and W with numbered streets. If it had AI it would probably be perfect, hence the 4 stars instead of 5. The area I use it for is City of Palmdale, Antelope Valley California, check it out, you’ll see what I mean, and I forgot to mention the “-“s between words and numbers, total curve ball for microprocessor, fix that and 5 stars every time

Bought it for my husband for Christmas and he couldn’t even Register it. We live in separate states for a little bit of time and I was very disappointed to have to bring it home and return it. It shouldn’t be that difficult