Garmin - Drive 52 5" GPS - Black

So after much investigation and testing of other brands, I purchased the Garmin Drive 52 and absolutely love it! The Garmin Drive 52 gives you spoken real time directions with street names. It is wonderful!!! It always shows your next exit or turn with mileage at the top of the screen. It is fantastic! And when you come up to your next exit or turn, it goes to split screen and shows you which lane you should be in. It is idiot proof! My wife and I travel a lot towing a 25' travel trailer (48 states in 2 years since I retired) and we need something that we can depend on. Also it has lifetime maps as well, even though it doesn't have LM on the box. I called Garmin to make sure. Also I updated the maps with the campground wifi and it only took about 1.5 hours! I couldn't believe it! So goodbye to TomTom, it was a great ride with the XL340 which we loved but after we "upgraded" to your via 1525M we did not like your "improvements" and did not feel confident or safe in your directions or the accuracy of the unit so we returned it and bought the Garmin Drive 52 and haven't looked back.

First off no gps is perfect, but this one is nice, it has nice features simple to use and operate. I personally like the trip meter/ driving time it has on the right side it's handy so far I used it for 1100 miles of driving and about 25hrs. I'm just curious how long it will hold up, looks build well, simple interface, never let me down so far so it's 10/10 for me only thing is maybe I should of got the higher model for the bigger screen, but for the price I paid no complaints at all.

This is my second Garmin. I had a Nuvi for 15 years. When it came time to replace I thought for a moment of just using Google Maps on my phone, but it was a no brainier. Garmin is by far so superior to Goggle. I like and need a device that is designed for the purpose of helping me get to where I'm going. Smart phones are okay, but sometimes an all in one isn't the best.

This GPS unit was pretty good until it stopped working less than a month after I purchased it. I left the unit in my car on a sunny April day, and when I returned, the unit would not power on. My guess is that the heat killed it. I was able to replace the unit, but I highly doubt it will survive during the summer months.

My old Garmin went on the blink, and we replaced it with another Garmin, since the old one served us well for many a year. Although my first use of it in PA gave me incorrect directions and ended up on the Turnpike and it cost me $50 because I didn’t have a ticket.

I bought this GPS to replace an older Garmin GPS that needed a map update and was starting to have battery problems. The Garmin Drive 52 solved both problems. I down loaded a copy of the Owner's Manual to make learning how to use the device easier.

I had a similar model for about seven to eight years and it finally went on me after using it every day for work so that's why I chose to use another Garmin since the quality was good and it lasted for a long time

It was easy to set up, and use. It got me where I needed to go. And I didn't have to listen to it "recalculating" every time I took a short cut close to home, it just made the changes and continued giving directions.