CliffsNotes: Bought a TT One 130, the speaker was defective. Got a replacement, the GPS reception died within a few hours. Got a third replacement , the speaker was defective again. Even one of the store demo units had defective speaker. Gave up and bought a garmin.
So I will be moving pretty soon and I decided to get a bare bones GPS system (my first) to avoid having a miserable time during my first few weeks. After doing a bit of online research I decided to buy a TT One 3rd edition. I went to the local retailer and saw that they already replaced the old 3rd ed. with 130s so I ignored the price difference and bought a 130. Here is the comment that I left yesterday a gpsreview.net article about the new 130,130S,330 etc.
Now, the speaker in this unit was doing just fine, although the GPS signal was a little weak compared to the first one. I didn't think much of it. This morning I started it up and .. nothing .. It wont acquire the GPS signal after 5 minutes outside the car, with a clear view of the sky in all directions. I drove around a bit, reset it to factory defaults with no luck. I drove to another branch of the same store(**) this time and got my 3rd (2nd replacement) unit. Knowing that I had to test it immediately, I went back to my car , started the unit up and was rewarded with a very strong signal and..... another defective speaker. The employees at the second store were baffled about the speaker as well. So after my third try I gave up and bought a nuvi 200.
I really liked the TT 130. I has lots of useful extra features and a better mounting system for my car. But I looked at a total of 3 demo and 3 off the shelf units. All but two of the demo units were defective (3 bad speakers and 1 dead GPS reception). That is 67% failure rate. Needless to say I am quite frustrated by the whole experience. They may be having difficulties with the first batch but c'mon.
So those of you who are about to but one of these, please test ASAP after the purchase.
Guclu
(*) - Circuit City on Akers Mill Rd @ Atlanta
(**) - Circuit City at Perimeter , Atlanta
So I will be moving pretty soon and I decided to get a bare bones GPS system (my first) to avoid having a miserable time during my first few weeks. After doing a bit of online research I decided to buy a TT One 3rd edition. I went to the local retailer and saw that they already replaced the old 3rd ed. with 130s so I ignored the price difference and bought a 130. Here is the comment that I left yesterday a gpsreview.net article about the new 130,130S,330 etc.
Tim, the site admin, responded:
After going back to the store(*) I wrote this:
Now, the speaker in this unit was doing just fine, although the GPS signal was a little weak compared to the first one. I didn't think much of it. This morning I started it up and .. nothing .. It wont acquire the GPS signal after 5 minutes outside the car, with a clear view of the sky in all directions. I drove around a bit, reset it to factory defaults with no luck. I drove to another branch of the same store(**) this time and got my 3rd (2nd replacement) unit. Knowing that I had to test it immediately, I went back to my car , started the unit up and was rewarded with a very strong signal and..... another defective speaker. The employees at the second store were baffled about the speaker as well. So after my third try I gave up and bought a nuvi 200.
I really liked the TT 130. I has lots of useful extra features and a better mounting system for my car. But I looked at a total of 3 demo and 3 off the shelf units. All but two of the demo units were defective (3 bad speakers and 1 dead GPS reception). That is 67% failure rate. Needless to say I am quite frustrated by the whole experience. They may be having difficulties with the first batch but c'mon.
So those of you who are about to but one of these, please test ASAP after the purchase.
Guclu
(*) - Circuit City on Akers Mill Rd @ Atlanta
(**) - Circuit City at Perimeter , Atlanta
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