Retarded

Thats exactly what i do,,tho my 350 has never missed a beat i still bring my 320 throw it in the glove box for a backup hey these units are still electronics that could fail at any time.

also an old fashion road map is with me at all times too!!

I don't like to use old, chancey, or out dated things for a backup. Especially to take on trips. I figure if it is not good enough to use every day, it is not good enough for a backup.

Unless he is having some sort of problem with his 2820 I doubt he is taking any real chance with it. I still use both my 2720 and 2610 and I've never run into any problems with either of them. In fact neither of them has ever had any problems.

So you have replaced your donut spare tire with a full size one? It's brand new and never been on the ground? I understand what you are getting at Evert but you're wrong. Just because it isn't the latest and greatest doesn't mean that you are taking a chance by depending on it for a spare.

Have you tried deleting your trip logs and other data? When my 750 becomes slow to boot, that fixes it. Don't ask me why a full trip log makes it slow but it does seem to.

I never accepted those donut spares. They may be ok for spares in town but in Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota I can be a long way from service should a tire give out. And the travel could well be over secondary/gravel roads.

When I buy a set of tires I get five tires and the spare gets rotated along with the rest.

Tires age with time even in the trunk. So an old donut tire should be replaced even if it has never been used.

Actually my 2820 is a better GPS then the 855, the only thing the 855 has over the 2820 is a bigger and brighter screen. I've said for quite some time that Garmin blew it. They should have kept the electronics of the 2820 and put the display of a Nuvi on it, they would have had a hell of a GPS. In all of the time I've had the 2820 I've never had a problem with it, which I sure can't say about the 855, and from the posts I've read on this site so have a bunch of other Nuvi owners with several of the Nuvi models.

>>I don't like to use old, chancey, or out dated things.

My wife thinks I'm old, stuck in my old ways, with features that sometimes don't work. Maybe she should trade me in for a younger, more up to date model.

But Ev, I, too, disagree with you. I've been a GPS freak since day one. I have suffered from a disease called "buy-a-new-GPS-even-though-my-old-model-is-working-flawlessly-because-I-need-the-latest-model."

My Garmin I5 will probably outlive me ... It's bullet-proof and yes, I carry it as a back-up GPS and keep several other replaced-before-they-needed- to-be GPS's hidden in my various vehicles in case I need them ... with my 1450 as my primary.

I admit, I'm addicted and obsessed with GPS's ... which is another reason my wife should probably replace me with another model.

Well, I will be 73 in a few days and I have two stints in my heart, a titanium cage in my neck, radioactive seeds in my prostate, two repaired ruptures, a repaired belly button and knees that are getting iffy. I have more places in my body that hurt than don't. The F84F that I worked on in 1955/56 is in a museum.

So that makes me an old, refurbished museum piece. But I can not do anything about that. If I could have a new body I would get one and would not use the old one for a spare.

Now that does not mean that I don’t keep old Garmins. I still use an old plain Etrex when I go on my Phase 3 cardiac rehab walks. I use it to monitor my walking speed, time spent walking, and distance traveled etc.

But no way would I use it for a backup for my 285W when I go on long trips, although I would consider using my 255W.

I guess one would have to ask themselves “would the old maps and features (or lack thereof) work ok for me given the specific use I intended to have a backup for”.