Comments on: Garmin Nuvi 765T

By: Kay

Kay — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:25:49 +0000

Just FYI, The 765 comes preset to avoid u-turns. all you have to do is uncheck that box in your navigation settings.
Also make sure u also update the software on garmin website. It is supposed to fix some issues.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:29:30 +0000

Just want to add my unhappy-customer voice to the mix. Loved the 765t for 3 months. I used it to navigate all over Canada this past summer and it was priceless. But, as of 3 weeks ago–shortly after it began showing a “battery will not charge” message, it is useless! I am so irate. Even if this is covered, and I assume it is, I’ll need to buy a spare gps system to use while my original one is being fixed.

I wouldn’t buy this model again. This is not acceptable quality, and in my opinion, this model needs to be recalled/replaced by Garmin.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:10:13 +0000

Well, I have given up. I was in a relatively small town, fortunately knew where I was going. It showed going to a certain street, then turning to get on the Interstate. We were following other people so we turned long before the scheduled turn. The 765 showed us to be on the street we had been on along with all the surrounding streets (even though we had turned off it), then told us to take the ramp to access the Interstate even though we had been on it for a mile or two. THEN we were going down a remote road that had only one possible turn to get on the next highway. It told us to turn about 4 miles before we got to the turn and NEVER showed that we had not turned. That was the second time it did that.
If we had been in a city where we did not know where we were going, we would have been hard pressed to ever access the right road.
We are either going to give up on a GPS or going back to TomTom. Too frustating to deal with these problems.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:41:14 +0000

In Florida, but so far I’ve not had a problem with the mount not staying put. It’s been firmly affixed to my windshield from the day I bought it. Make sure your windshield is spotless. Wipe it down with whatever you prefer to use for glass cleaner, buff it dry. Then use rubbing alcohol and let it dry for a few minutes. Don’t forget to clean the suction cup as well.

It also helps to stick the suction cup to a flatter section of the windshield. Some windshields are very curved at the sides/edges.

Also make sure you’re pressing the mount firmly against the window while flipping the lever. It’s not enough to just depend upon the lever mechanism alone.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:42:22 +0000

I have been a TOMTOM user for a long time and switched to the Garmin Nuvi 765T because it has a function to optimise the order of the waypoints of a route.

This function seems to work fine, but navigation the city sucks bigtime. It constantly freaks out, assumably because it looses GPS coverages…

Definetely go for the TomTom devices… way better quality!!!

By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:23:01 +0000

I purchased a 765T 3 weeks ago after Sam’s Club brought them back (all their units were sent to Garmin for a software upgrade). I turned on the unit and it paired with the satellites in about 30 seconds. I connected it to my Netbook and took several voice and map correction updates (not the map itself). I have not had any problems.

This weekend when I connected to the PC, I was advised there was a “Free” map update. It took about 45 minutes to download, and another 12-15 minutes to install. never encountered any issues and the PND continues to work great! My only complaint, in the Texas 100 degree heat, the rubber mount fails about once per week. Anyone has suggestions on how to make it stay put?

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:19:28 +0000

Google doesn’t have their own maps– in North America they purchase maps from Tele Atlas for use on their site. In contrast, Garmin purchases their maps from NAVTEQ. So Garmin and Google Maps do not use the same map provider.

By: AGBreen

AGBreen — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:09:10 +0000

I have the 765T which was purchased June 23 or 24th 2009 and the only problem I have had is my wife said it shut off on her once on a trip. When she got home I went to the web updater and dowloaded everything that was there except the foreign lanquages. I had other slight problems and called Garmin (if you have the time to be on hold for about 45 min to an hour) I recomend that you take that step and tell them voice to voice what is going on. As far as the maps and updated streets and roads go they have to depend on the area mappers to turn in the information to who ever does there maps for them. Usually Google Maps. I have the same problem. My daughter moved into some new apartment that was built in 2007 and they moved in in 2008 and the last I checked about two weeks ago on Google 2009 maps they still showed the buildings still under construction with the street completed but it never made into the 2009 ver CN North America NT 2010.10 and CN North America NT 2010.10 3D which is the latest version. ( side note ) In my searching the other GPS’s I guess they get there maps from the some source. but you can check to be sure.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:59:46 +0000

I have done the free map upgrade for my 765T. It still does not have some streets listed even though they have been around for several years. Restaurants are not up-to-date either. I had a TomTom and really liked the feature of \Make A U Turn\ instead of taking me around the world to get back to the street one block back. It also seems to have a Navigation problem. We live in New Mexico and some things are remote. We were on a remote road but it told us that it was 36 miles across it. That was correct but 4 miles from the intersecting highway, it told us to turn even though there was no road. It never indicated that we had not turned but showed that the next turn was to the right just as though we had reached the highway. Debating whether or not to just return it!!

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:10:40 +0000

On your Garmin 765T did you go to the “WebUpdater” and update any of the new updates that show up except the forein language ones? Also check your “Avoidances” in TOOLS->SETTINGS -> NAVIGATION to make sure you have put a check next to any options you don’t want. Ex (Unpaved Roads, Ferries and anyother way you don’t want into the calculations. You may have to do a Factory Reset. You do this by having the unit unplugged and off. Put your finger on the lower right corner and hold, then while holding your finger on the lower right corner of the screen turn the unit on and in about 30 seconds to a minute a message will come up saying “Do You Want To Lose or Delete all data. Select “YES” (You will lose all favorites and anything else you may have stored in there including your settings).Turn unit off and go outside then turn unit back on to aquire the satilites at your location. If this is your home save it as such. I had to do all this and so far I haven’t had any problems (YET). In case you didn’t know there is a Manual that you can get from Garmin on line and download.