Hello,
Guess I will throw my quite unique story here as an intro. Have had a GO 700 for more than three years. It's getting pretty tired now, both the original and quite expensive and tedious replacement batteries have died, screen is quite dim and hard to see in the daytime, original mount broke, etc.
My dad bought us a new XL 330S on sale a while back. I dabbled with whether to trade it in on a 730T for quite a bit more money, but decided that it was nice enough for our needs and decided to keep it. Love the screen, size, mount, volume and POI database compared to the old 700. Power-on to GPS lock time is amazing.
Two weeks later, it gets stolen out of the unlocked vehicle in the driveway (Thanksgiving Day). FSCK. Probably should consider locking my doors since I live in South Florida
Since I had never gotten the Operate my XL feature working in Home, I didn't have a pin set to lock the owner info. Write that one off...
So, stick the 700 back in the truck and 4 days later it gets stolen...from the same vehicle in the same driveway...with the same unlocked doors The wife was extremely to say the least. I clearly remember the words "there will not be one dollar spent on GPS systems from now on" being issued.
When I report them to the police, they tell me they caught a kid in my neighborhood with some stolen stuff and one of the items is a TomTom. Long story short, this punk was buddies with my next door neighbor and had been hitting the neighborhood for a while...laptops, phones, iPods, GPSs, you name it. It was interesting to see that most of my neighbors hadn't been keeping their doors locked either.
So, I get the old one back and start trying to figure how I am going to convince the wife that I learned my lesson and deserve to buy another one. Life goes on, right. Last night, out of the blue, I get a call from the Hollywood PD who just stopped a group of kids in a Durango that they knew were habitual troublemakers, searched the vehicle and found my 330S! I went over immediately, identified it and got it back...along with the mount and power cord (which had been separated). Still looks brand new. The kid from last night is not the kid that originally stole it.
One punk is still in jail. Both have felony convictions coming. I think I should go try my luck on the lottery...
Guess I will throw my quite unique story here as an intro. Have had a GO 700 for more than three years. It's getting pretty tired now, both the original and quite expensive and tedious replacement batteries have died, screen is quite dim and hard to see in the daytime, original mount broke, etc.
My dad bought us a new XL 330S on sale a while back. I dabbled with whether to trade it in on a 730T for quite a bit more money, but decided that it was nice enough for our needs and decided to keep it. Love the screen, size, mount, volume and POI database compared to the old 700. Power-on to GPS lock time is amazing.
Two weeks later, it gets stolen out of the unlocked vehicle in the driveway (Thanksgiving Day). FSCK. Probably should consider locking my doors since I live in South Florida
Since I had never gotten the Operate my XL feature working in Home, I didn't have a pin set to lock the owner info. Write that one off...So, stick the 700 back in the truck and 4 days later it gets stolen...from the same vehicle in the same driveway...with the same unlocked doors
The wife was extremely to say the least. I clearly remember the words "there will not be one dollar spent on GPS systems from now on" being issued.When I report them to the police, they tell me they caught a kid in my neighborhood with some stolen stuff and one of the items is a TomTom. Long story short, this punk was buddies with my next door neighbor and had been hitting the neighborhood for a while...laptops, phones, iPods, GPSs, you name it. It was interesting to see that most of my neighbors hadn't been keeping their doors locked either.
So, I get the old one back and start trying to figure how I am going to convince the wife that I learned my lesson and deserve to buy another one. Life goes on, right. Last night, out of the blue, I get a call from the Hollywood PD who just stopped a group of kids in a Durango that they knew were habitual troublemakers, searched the vehicle and found my 330S! I went over immediately, identified it and got it back...along with the mount and power cord (which had been separated). Still looks brand new. The kid from last night is not the kid that originally stole it.
One punk is still in jail. Both have felony convictions coming. I think I should go try my luck on the lottery...
