[Aus-soaring] Garmin 12 xl repairs / GPS wanted

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 searc

Re: [Aus-soaring] Garmin 12 xl repairs / GPS wanted

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: http://www.ebay.com/ctg/Garmin-GPS-12-Ha

Re: [Aus-soaring] Garmin 12 xl repairs / GPS wanted

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 fie

Re: [Aus-soaring] Garmin 12 xl repairs / GPS wanted

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. >

Re: [Aus-soaring] Garmin 12 xl repairs / GPS wanted

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 fa

Re: [Aus-soaring] Garmin 12 xl repairs / GPS wanted

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 y

Re: [Aus-soaring] Garmin 12 xl repairs / GPS wanted

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 Cam

Re: [Aus-soaring] Garmin 12 xl repairs / GPS wanted

An Australian one on ebay http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Garmin-GPS-12-box-barely-used-/221044614751?pt=AU _Electronics_GPS &hash=item337749265f You'd do better getting a more rece

Re: [Aus-soaring] Does this work?

So do it once, outside of facebook, and then post the link inside facebook as well. (unless I'm missing something...?) On 12/06/2012, at 9:39 AM, Raj Bholanat wrote: > Like he said > " Which is a bugger cos there are a few facebook things like that I want to > send to non facebook friends.