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4.5 stars
"Great Unit, 12v speaker/adapter sucks"
Pros: Been running OTR with it for years
Cons: Had to buy a speaker/adapter every year
Summary: I've logged neigh onto half million miles running under the StreetPilot III Delux. B2B, C2C, several Can Provinces, up the Alcan to Fairbanks and Anchorage. First year I wore the beanbag mount out, replaced it with a RAM window mount. Mostly it's a very sturdy tool. I mean I'm a talkin all day every day. Only a few times it didn't know where I wanted to go, but a few times it told me I wasn't where I was. Digital maps have some accuracy problems too. In a prior life I made USGS Topo Maps, fur bout 28 years. Most the time I'd leave the speaker din plug unplugged. Had a preference fur Sat Radio, and CB was always on case someone needed sumtin. Tween that and the Sat Radio I didn't need voice prompts, (which many times came too late to be helpful), it could get a tad distractin in my cab. I wished they'ed revised maps at least anually. But my main complaint was I had to replace the durn 12v speaker/adapter at least once a year every year. I think I've got 6 of um in a box. If you leave it plugged in the same vehicle it works great, but too fragile to be a pluggin and unpluggin all the time. Also, invariably the durn thing would recalc the route just when I needed information for my next interchange and more than once I'd have to exit and get back on going the way I really wanted to go. I hear they fixed this in the later versions, but I'm too cheap to upgrade units, only maps. It's been a good unit, and I may have used it more than any other user. I'd give it a 10 if it wasn't for the crummy adapter plug.
