Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great GPS! It has all the bells and whistles. Great for going on trips or just driving around town. A little pricey but well worth the money. I would highly recommend

I have always been well pleased with Garmin products. This GPS is no exception. It has all of the features that you could want and works great without any problems. This is the fourth Garmin GPS that I have purchased through the years and they have all worked well. I have also been well pleased with Garmin watches also. I have owned several and they have all worked well.

What a great upgrade from my old 5” Garmin Nuvi! My old unit served me well for many years but this new one is a welcome upgrade. The large display is so much easier to see and the audio is improved also. Very happy with my new GPS!

We recently planned a vacation that was 2000+ miles round trip driving. I've used Garmin GPS units for 20yrs and our older Nuvi was getting a little old and cumbersome to use so I decided to upgrade to the Garmin DriveSmart 86 8" Pros: 8" Display is bright and crisp WiFi enabled for updates along with traditional USB cable Faster than older models Satellite based system means it works everywhere Cons: Still uses antiquated interface Touch display is still laggy Searching is still awkward Still slow overall Smart Notifications are intrusive Smart phones are now just as capable if not more Mounting system is proprietary and windshield compatible only Summary: Many years ago, we tried to use Apple Maps and it was horrific and I swore I'd never use it again and stuck with my Garmin at the time but clearly times have changed and Apple has gotten their act together and then some. While on our way to our destination, my daughter kept insisting we use Apple Maps, so we ran Apple Maps on her iphone 11 in tandem with the Garmin and found Apple Maps to be just as capable if not more along with being faster to adjust and giving more detailed in the moment instructions than Garmin (IE, "Go past this light." "Do not turn here", etc...) little quality of life improvements that made a difference real time. The Garmin got confused a few times which ended up confusing us but Apple Maps was able to offer the correct route. Apple Maps responded to changes and rerouting real time incredibly quick vs the Garmin. I was so impressed with Apple Maps vs Garmin that I put the Garmin in the glove compartment and used my iphone the entire time we were on vacation and for the entire ride home (1000+ miles) and it was near flawless. I found the Smart Notifications intrusive on the Garmin and pairing it with your phone just seemed to introduce a lot of redundancy that wasn't needed. It seemed out of place layered on top of Garmin's old school interface system. Another bug was you had to keep turning off Smart Notifications as it would re-enable itself every time you turned your Garmin back on. The iphone, even the iphone 11 which is several years old, ran circles around the Garmin in regards to speed and responsiveness. Another issue was the mounting system. While it works great on the windshield, it did not work at all for dash mounting in our Nissan Rogue. I ended up using a $10 maglock compatible mount for my iphone that worked on every surface including my dash perfectly. In the end, I am going to return it and just stick with my iphone with Apple Maps. It proved itself more than capable for my use case. After 20+ years, I never thought I'd see the day I'd prefer my smart phone over a traditional tried and true Garmin GPS yet here we are. I will revisit Garmin when we finish getting our RV ready for seriously extended road travel as that is where Garmin reportedly shines and potentially separates itself from the pack but for normal day to day GPS use? Smart phones are officially good enough for GPS.

I Love the large screen! Considering getting a 2nd!

My Garmin is perfect in my little 2010 car! So helpful and much improved upgrades since the days of old Garmins of yesteryear! So much better, easy to operate and loud enough to hear clearly.

It's a nice item with lots of functions, but is a pain in the butt to set up, the first time I used it, it ran me in circles, cost me an extra 5 hours on a 547 mile drive, I can't imagine how a person that isn't familiar with these things will ever be able to figure it out. Once I got it up & running properly, it was everything I hoped for & more.

Absolutely wonderful product. I tells you to turn left or right instead of go east ro west. I don't know directions so left and right turns notices is best.

This one beats all the others with easy to use and accurate features. When used with the right attachments in your vehicle it becomes an asset to get to where you have to be easily.

Size of screen is good but ease of operation is not. It would be nice to have a paper owner manual to read while trying to figure out the many things the GPS can do. I printed out the book which I down loaded it still is way to complicated for the average person my age. We need bigger screens not more bells and whistles.

Good Quality and easy to navigate, the only problem is connecting to Google crome for updates it takes to long but it's easier to update maps trough wi-fi

it great navigation system w/ easy to understand features

This is a window gps that can be seen and heard, It works well and does what I need it to, Really like the Bluetooth aspect of it and the wireless connection to my home internet. Only complaint is that on the route planner it does not work well when you deviate from the route, you have to go back and restart it to get this proper line to follow.

Excellent GPS I can setup a border around NYC so it won’t route me over the GWB and dealing with ridiculous toll rates. Easy setup free updates and maps they have improved their product over time.

The GPS was very valuable during our last trip. We were able to avoid roads they would have lengthened the time.

Love this garming has everything you need tincluding Bluetooth , traffic reports free map upgrades and Alexa .

Bought for my father in law but he is stuck in the 70’s. Worked great easy to use and setup was a snap. Hooked into phone as easy as 123.

After completing a 5,000 plus mile trip to multiple states we could not have achieved this smoothly without the expertise of the garmin which lead us through thick and thin traffic. This item is a MUST!

Very nice GPS compared to our much older (10+ yr) Garmin. Nice display, nice directions when the GPS tells you the turns. Like I said, our last Garmin GPS we bought over 10 yrs ago, so this new one is really a big improvement.

Great replacement for my 5 inch version. I like the larger screen and increased map