Stolen Beanbag

 

My beanbag and cradle were recently stolen, rendering my nuvi 650 useless. I would like to buy a new unit that has a cradle that will also fit my 650(I use the MP3 player all the time). Anyone know of a backward compatible unit like that?

check garmin

Garmin may be able to sell you a replacement cradle. Check there.

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eBay

A search on eBay suggests to me that the cradle was specific to the nuvi 6x0 series. [More knowledgeable folks--correct me if this is wrong. I half-expected it to work with the nuvi 7x0 series but this expectation was not correct.]

As Boxcar suggests, replacement cradles are available. I see 28 on eBay right now (about $15 with free S&H):

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p3984.m570....

I doubt that any new nuvi model will be backwards compatible except for the old 6x0 series.

Garmin also has them new for $18 + S&H:

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=15403

Replacement Cradle

ralphy1 wrote:

My beanbag and cradle were recently stolen, rendering my nuvi 650 useless. I would like to buy a new unit that has a cradle that will also fit my 650(I use the MP3 player all the time). Anyone know of a backward compatible unit like that?

Your cradle that was stolen will fit the 600 series ONLY, NONE are backwards compatible. The 700 series has a different cradle. Many of the new units don't even have a powered cradle, 12V power cord plugs directly into the unit. I myself prefer a powered cradle.

For sure I would look for one on Ebay.
Here is the specific one CraigW suggested for 15.00, it's a genuine Garmin.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Garmin-Nuvi-680-670-660-650-610-600-...

As for the beanbag only buy a NEW ONE, I got a used one on Ebay in a package deal with a cradle for my 660, the cradle was fine, the bean bag was worn and sucked big time. Constantly slipping around.

The bean bag prices are constantly changing,I bought a new one at Amazon for 15.78, today it's 21.95.
If your patient the price will drop.

BTW you won't find a new unit capable of playing MP3's, they did away with that feature some time ago along with the audio out jack.

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How sad

It's amazing what people will steal these days...

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