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660 LM appears to have died
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 12:19 am
by jeff in ferndale wa
After sitting idle for four months in the motorcycle mount on my Goldwing(indoors and with a cover on the bike) my 660LM will not power up.
I did all the suggestions from the Garmin web site,then on the suggestion of Garmin tech support, replaced the battery.
Still no joy.
After another online chat with Garmin,they are suggesting that it is dead,and are offering a 595LM for 489.99.
They said Garmin will not repair it.
Are there any places that will repair? Would it be worth the repair?
The 660 did everything I ever needed,so don't really need an upgrade.
Or is my best be to buy the 595LM?
Thank in advance
Jeff in Ferndale WA
Re: 660 LM appears to have dies
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 8:15 am
by kernowing
It may be worth a call to these people if you're in the USA
http://www.palmdr.com/cart/garmin-zumo- ... p-337.html
Re: 660 LM appears to have dies
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 4:31 pm
by jeff in ferndale wa
Thanks, just sent them an email.
Re: 660 LM appears to have died
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 5:54 pm
by jeff in ferndale wa
Emailed this (Saturday) morning and Chris replied in less than an hour.
He seems confident it can be repaired but can't give an estimate until he sees the unit.
I'm putting it in the mail today.I will let you know how it goes.
Re: 660 LM appears to have died
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 5:58 pm
by kernowing
That's a good start then Jeff. I read loads of good reviews for Palm Doctor on the old Zumo forum. Hopefully he'll sort it for you.
Cheers, Pete.
Re: 660 LM appears to have died
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:06 am
by carolinarider09
He repaired by Zumo 550 and I am very blessed with the work and the price was not bad. Nice to have Chris around.
Re: 660 LM appears to have died
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:00 pm
by jeff in ferndale wa
Chris got back to me this morning:
"Unfortunately the problem was not the power chip but the flash memory chip which is much more involved and none of your trips/favorites will be able to be saved. The repair would be $118.90 plus return shipping."
I told him to proceed. I will let you know how it turns out.
Re: 660 LM appears to have died
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:31 am
by advnzer
i hope you did a backup of the zumo before you sent it away
Re: 660 LM appears to have died
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 3:17 pm
by rbentnail
advnzer wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:31 am
i hope you did a backup of the zumo before you sent it away
This could be a good reason to keep your Library on SD cards & on a PC and NOT solely in internal memory of the gps. Computer file management 101- multiple copies in different places.
Re: 660 LM appears to have died
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 4:31 pm
by jeff in ferndale wa
advnzer wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:31 am
i hope you did a backup of the zumo before you sent it away
It was completely dead, so could not backup anything. I did have some things on an SD card(can't recall what exactly) and have all my waypoints saved on my computer.I did remove the sd card before sending away.