No directions sound on tracks

[VeeBee]

When following a track on XT2 there are no audible directions. It's quite dangerous looking down trying to follow a thin line without any directions whilst keeping an eye on the road.

Anyone know how to:-
1. get the sound on for tracks
2. make the coloured track line thicker.

[gwilki]

In my admittedly limited experience with theXT2, turn by turn audible directions are only available on routes.

[VeeBee]

That seems a bit stupid to me. So if lost somewhere and wanting to backtrack, it must be done without turn by turn directions whilst in an unknown area with unknown roads but also need to keep watching the screen to follow a thin line. What goes through the designers heads! I can't see why they would do this, but Garmin devices seem nowhere near as intuitive as Apple Carplay devices.

[gwilki]

There are people here much more knowledgeable than me, who may have some options. Other than that, your issue is with Garmin.

I don't quite know how to address your unknown are and unknown road issue. I use Basecamp to plan my routes. Many of the roads that I travel are unknown to me. The Zumo still talks to me turn by turn.

[smfollen]

Routes provide turn-by-turn directions. Tracks do not.
Routes can be recalculated either manually or automatically, depending on your configuration in settings, if you go off-route.
Tracks are fixed - they will never change.
There are advantages and disadvantages to each.
It is possible to convert a track to a route (aka trip), but the resulting route has some limitations - e.g. it can not be recalculated.

[Oop North John]

Have you tried googling the answer to the track width?

When I tried this: "adjust width track xt2" the AI answer looked correct.

[jfheath]

Routes provide turn-by-turn directions. Tracks do not.
Routes can be recalculated either manually or automatically, depending on your configuration in settings, if you go off-route.
Tracks are fixed - they will never change.
There are advantages and disadvantages to each.
It is possible to convert a track to a route (aka trip), but the resulting route has some limitations - e.g. it can not be recalculated.

Excellent answer from @smfollen as always. But I'll add to the last sentence.

The Track Converted to a Route on the XT2 - which I started calling a Track-Trip on the XT1 - is something that a lot of people use. It has no intermediate route points - only a start and an end point. But the Zumo will not change the route under normal circumstances, and it does give instructions.

However, if you go off route, then it it is able to find a way to get you back onto the route. It cannot aim for the next route point - as there aren't any - so what it does instead is head for the closest point on the route that has not yet been traveled.

So it deletes any of the route behind you - so it cannot take you back the way that you have come. It then finds the closest point of the remaining route from your current position and plots a route to join at that point. This combined route then becomes your (new) route - most of the original is left intact.

It has a couple of small drawbacks with this method - which are easily manageable if you know about them.
1. If it gets into a situation where it decided that the closest point can be best reached by going back a little bit, and you decided to continue ahead - then it will get into a RUT situation just like an imported route does.
2. If you have a 'circular route' which is more like a long thin elipse, and you deviate from the route heading into the elipse - then it might spot the return part of the route as being closest. That is because the new part of the route to get you to the closest point is now behind you. You ignore it and it will keep trying to get you to go back as that is the closest point, and although you came that way - this is the new route and as far as it is concerned, you haven't ridden that part yet.

I've never tried turning off autorecalculate with Track-Trips. I guess that it doesn't do anything to get you back onto the route if you deviate.
But thats a guess. I don't know.