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Had Garmin GPSR's from the Streetpilot 3 and this is the first one where I've had to think about work arounds for the routing algorithms we have been inflicted with when using a downloaded route, which has a way / via point.. Buy an XT2? Seems more like throwing good money after bad. I suspect that ...

I would have thought that as your GPS hasn't been calibrated, then anything it shows, is only an opinion, and not evidence?

I've only ever been able to transfer routes to a SD card, not waypoints. So, if there's a new waypoint I can see why it won't show in the "Favourites" tab on the XT, but will show in the route when it's imported.

My observation of the 3 u-turns then routes sensibly is based on a route that previously it would take me within a couple of miles of the destination, still wanting me to u-turn, and do about 8 miles back along the same roads I'd come along. My examples went on with U turn request until I was withi...

My observation of the 3 u-turns then routes sensibly is based on a route that previously it would take me within a couple of miles of the destination, still wanting me to u-turn, and do about 8 miles back along the same roads I'd come along.

Has the u-turn madness been modified by Garmin? I had a small route with a via / waypoint in which it would repeatedly ask me to do a u-turn even when it would double the journey length. Same route now seems to recalculate sensibly after about three u-turns requests. IIRC the SP3 took so long to rec...

I think the Zumo XT is actually fairly fast. Try using a Zumo 396 sometime. A buddy of mine has one. The route calculation time is glacial. It actually feels slower than the old 660... I have a 396 and in its defence, at least it can recalculate a route that is sensible if you go off an imported ro...

Like many, I'll not be rushing out to buy the XT2 that may have all the faults the similar lookung XT

After last summers problems of repeated u-turns in Montenegro I've bought a 396. It has its peculiarities, it also prefers faster roads, but doesn't go into the u-turn meltdown of the XT.

Looking at the Garmin video embeded in the article below, there doesn't seem to be a map scale bar or north arrow when routing along a road

https://www.thedrive.com/guides-and-gea ... n-zumo-xt2

Will they have sorted out the routing algorithms compared to the smaller XT?

To me it looks like a Tread rebadged as an XT.