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09-01-2021, 09:23 AM #1
Garmin RV 890
My new RV 890 came this week and we programmed all the info it asked for, dear wife helped with measuring the lengths. I entered an address across town and proceeded to see how it routed me, to my disappointment, it took me on a narrow, curvy, unstriped county road (pig path as they are called in my area).
The reason for the purchase of the RV 890 was to avoid this very situation, since my F250 factory GPS seems to love tiny little roads, regardless of the setting (shortest/fastest/eco)
The RV 90 allows me to exclude: tunnels/ferries/toll roads/ highways but not "unstriped roads". Are there any recommendations on "settings" that I might be able to choose in the RV890 to help with this situation?
We are planning an "out west" trip next June and don't want to be routed on every unstriped road along the way, like we have been around Gatlinburg on past trips.
Thanks for any input.2019 2970RL
2020 F250
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09-01-2021, 10:43 AM #2
Make sure to unselect shortest as that often takes those small roads to cut the distance. Also how is your vehicle set up from height and weight? Once we had that straight and the trailer/RV selected it changed the routes.
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09-01-2021, 10:44 AM #3
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FWIW, I never allow the GPS to determine a route without checking it out ahead of time, unless it's local.
You can download Basecamp and use it to create routes so you go where you want to go rather than where the GPS decides to send you. I have used it for
many years and it works well overall. Although the GPS can still go wonky now and again.Howard and Peggy
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09-01-2021, 10:44 AM #4
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I don't have a RV 890 or any other 'dedicated' GPS device. My DW is 'dedicated' to being our navigator and GPS device. And she does an awesome job using the resources available to her. You have to remember that the data in the unit is only as good as the human that put it there.
As with ANY GPS device you should always "Trust But Verify". Following a tech device blindly is a recipe for disaster.
I was considering getting an 890 but we don't travel enough to warrant the expense. We are weekend warriors with a few 2-3 week trips sprinkled in. Besides, it would have put one more person in the unemployment line, my DW.Mike & Lisa
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09-01-2021, 11:23 AM #5
Current settings are 12' tall, 8' wide, and 56' total length. Route is set to "fastest".
I like the GPS for the ETA shown on the screen, so I have a good answer to the question "when will we be there?" as well as the "traffic" feature to avoid sitting in gridlock. We were on I65 near Bowling Green one night when the GPS popped up and rerouted us, I chose to ignore it until my DW noticed no traffic in the oncoming lanes. We exited and went through town. Found out later that a bad wreck at I 65 / Green River (now I 165 I think) had all lanes blocked.
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09-03-2021, 06:59 AM #6
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We use a combination of Google maps and a motor carrier road atlas. The road atlas has never steered us wrong.
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I'm really happy I got my Garmin RV860. And, like you, I really like the trip information. I like the elevation info too; at least it gives some indication of the route's hills and valleys. I also like that it posts informational messages such as upcoming delays, speed changes, etc. All-in-all it has treated us well.
I always double check the route so I know what to expect and to be sure it is some agreement with what I expect.
It hasn't sent me down any bad roads - yet. You can always "shape the route" too - that has come in handy sometimes.
I held out for a long time about not getting another GPS (I've had a few in the past), but after missing 2 turns I knew to make and having to make one too many u-turns to get back where I wanted to be I figured it was time to try out the newer RV GPS's. Besides, considering what we pay for an RV another few hundred dollars for some peace of mind and route assurance doesn't seem like too much to spend on an accessory.
I set my hight at 13' 6" and 102" wide (I needed too). Maybe up your stats a bit and see what happens??Last edited by traveldawg; 03-13-2022 at 02:55 PM.
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Resurrecting an old thread - sorry. Spent 4 solid days (plus time to learn BaseCamp) trying to get a route into the Garmin RV 890. Hopeless. Even routes generated in BaseCamp imported into the 890 result in a separate routes between each via. And they are all out of order in the 890 when I look at saved routes or addresses because apparently the Garmin assigns them order by distance from start point. If I had the time, I'd map the order in which they appear and see what route it would suggest - maybe I will.
I hit the magic 29 max WayPoints early so I manually split the trip into three separate trips in BaseCamp. Again, when loading into the 890, I wound up with 50 separate trips in an absurd order.
The 890 also appends a meaningless order number even though the order numbers are already in place from pick your trip planner. So Waypoint 1 is followed by Waypoint 35 and it goes down hill from there. and the actual Waypoints might say "23. 7. Dayton KOA" for example. Each Via-to-Via location is perceived as a separate trip so I now have 40 some-odd saved trips in no meaningful order. I'm struggling to find a use for this other than just a way to insure most up-to-date caution points. Took me two evenings to plot a 4500 mile 41 stop trip on RVTW. I do wish that was integrated with a GPS device (any thoughts?).Last edited by ajg617; 03-07-2022 at 05:37 PM.
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I had a 51 stop trip last year. I used RVTW to plan all the stops and keep my notes for each stop. The evening before the next day's trip I would enter my destination on the RV890, let it plot the trip, double check that was the way I wanted to go (modified it if necessary) and followed the GPS' directions the next day.
The whole idea of trying to preload a trip into a GPS seems to be too much work for me. And if I modify my trip then it was wasted time.Larry KE4DMG
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