Hi,
Does anyone know who still repairs Garmin 12xl GPS units.
Three or so years back I had link to a place that sent them to Korea or Hong
Kong for internal battery replacement and/or repairs,
this was basically a change-over service,
but I can no longer find this site, and an internet search
Hi Stu,
if you contact Garmin customer support they will be able to tell you if
your device can be repaired. I doubt it will be economical.. I had a self
inflicted issue with my 76CS and just bought another unit on ebay.
You could always get a second hander:
In my experience, it is not worth the trouble to contact Garmin in
Australia.
I have a Garmin GPS II+ (a parallel model to the GPS12xl and of a very
similar age). It had been displaying the Memory Battery is Low for a
very long time. I had contacted company reps about this at various
Don't tell me - you would also be dissatisfied if HP refused to service your
486 PC How can they service something they can't get parts for themselves
?
Matt
On 13/06/2012, at 14:00 , Terry Neumann wrote:
In my experience, it is not worth the trouble to contact Garmin in Australia.
Stu,
I looked into this a year or two back. I think there was somebody (not Garmin),
in the US who offered do something (but very expensive -$100 plus?, and
shipping on top of that) - otherwise bad luck old chap! If I remember correctly
the factory was in Thailand. Units had to go back to the
Stu
Think it may have lost date and where it is
I will find guff later on laptop but check date and UTC time and if it is
think 2005 or before. Connect to battery for a few days and then get
Hyperterminal to enter new date and time and Lat and long approx and you
may be in luck (I need to send
Stu
Back again
Read others comments but usually can be done. I forgot to say I then leave
it running ON a full week after it logs in then leave it OFF a week tor
make sure internal battery is holding charge. Trust me it is not rocket
science and just takes time. I recently got one going in a
An Australian one on ebay
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Garmin-GPS-12-box-barely-used-/221044614751?pt=AU
_Electronics_GPS
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Garmin-GPS-12-box-barely-used-/221044614751?pt=A
U_Electronics_GPShash=item337749265f hash=item337749265f
You'd do better getting a more recent
