Garmin Nuvi 57LM 5-Inch GPS Navigator (Certified Refurbished)

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Product Specifications

This Certified Refurbished product is tested and certified to look and work like new. The refurbishing process includes functionality testing, basic cleaning, inspection, and repackaging. The product ships with all relevant accessories, a minimum 90-day warranty, and may arrive in a generic box. Only select sellers who maintain a high performance bar may offer Certified Refurbished products on Amazon.com
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Free lifetime Map updates

Product Description

Style:57LM With bright 5” dual-orientation displays, spoken turn-by-turn directions and innovative features, the value-priced nüvi Essential Series are easy-to-use, dedicated GPS navigators that do not rely on cellular signals and are unaffected by cellular dead zones. nüvi arrives preloaded with detailed maps; select models offer free lifetime map updates1. Spoken Garmin Real Directions guide like a friend, using landmarks and traffic lights. Foursquare data adds millions more points of interest, so you can discover new and popular restaurants, shops, services and more in your area. Direct Access simplifies navigating to select complex destinations, like malls and airports. Lane assist with junction view helps you navigate interchanges with ease. nüvi displays current street, speed, speed limit and arrival time, and cautions with school zone alerts that you see and hear.

Product Reviews

Very Satisfied

Fast delivery , great product and a great price. I am so happy that I am not trying to use my cell phone as a GPS anymore. One of the great features I did not know about surprised me yesterday. The Garmin started beeping. When I looked at the Nuvi I realized there was an upcoming school zone and I was being alerted. Great Feature.

Garmon 6 inch is big hit.

Nothing negative at all! I had one that was about 5 years old and there were 4 or 5 things that I wished they would improve upon and it’s like Garman read my mind. Everything is perfect with this one. I especially like the larger screen, school zone warnings, easy labeling sites, and split screen at exits.

Upgraded my Garmin

I’ve been using a Garmin navigator in my car for years, but decided to upgrade to new Garmin technology since the 65LM (reconditioned) with its 6” screen was less than one hundred dollars. The unit arrived in perfect condition with all cables. My old 4” screen was useless, the new 6” screen is much better, the voice is better, satellite acquision is faster. I especially like having the arrival time in the lower right hand corner (this can be changed). Also nice is hitting the upper left corner allows the complete route to the destination to be shown. The 65LM fit on my old Garmin beanbag mount.One annoyance that still exists is if skip a turn, you get an nearly endless series of spoken messages to take the next turn, however, at least the annoying “recalculating” is largely gone. I wish there was a mute function to stop this, but alas the only way I see to do it is hit the power button to put the unit asleep. However, the endless “recalculating”I’ve been playing with options. I started with restaurants, gas stations, etc displayed on screen all the time, but soon found the screen was so cluttered (at least near a city) that I couldn’t see the route, so I turned this off. I experimented with ‘North UP’, but found on a quick glance I could not tell which way the car was pointing because the on screen car symbol is too symmetrical, so I am back to Track Up.One continuing annoyance is that Recently found list fills up too easily with junk addresses. I gather from the online manual there is a way to delete an individual entry, but it is not intuitive, and I haven’t yet been able to do this. There’s lots of spare memory, so downloaded the online manual (.pdf) onto the LM65. Unfortunately .pdf files are not supported, and I don’t see anyway to access the manual.——————-(update) For a long time I used the ‘Recently found’ list for my addresses, but this list has gradually filled up with junk, so I put a lot of time into trying to delete individually entries. By fooling around I was able to delete one or two, but I couldn’t delete a lot of them and in doing this I inadvertently added new addresses making the problem worse. .I’ve now given up trying to use the ‘Recently found’ list, but I have a work around. Pull your address from the ‘Saved’ list.The advantage of the ‘Saved’ list over the ‘Recently found’ list is that it will have far less junk, because it will only have address that you (not Garmin) have specifically saved. To populate my Saved list, which was empty, I called up the addresses in ‘Recently found’ that I wanted to keep and individually Saved them. (“i” leads to Save button.) I then deleted all the entries in the ‘Recently found’ list. New addresses will automatically be entered by Garmin into the ‘Recently found’ list, so periodically those I want to keep I can easily move into my ‘Saved’ list.

This thing had a bit of a learning curve to …

This thing had a bit of a learning curve to it but we recently made a trip to LA & I would never attempt it again w/o this in the car. It saves a lot of headaches when driving cross country from Nebraska.

Works as good as the Garmin that it was replacing

So far it has worked OK. I have only used it several times. The only thing I encountered was when I first got it the resolution/screen brightness was at minimum. I thought there was something wrong. After I got in a darker room and could just make out the display. I got the brightness turned up and then all was OK. Works as good as the Garmin that it was replacing. I do kind of like the split screen function it goes into when there are multiple lane options.

I like the ability to see signs for food and gas …

I like the ability to see signs for food and gas stops. The audio is good and tells you which lane you need to be in when you are on the highway and ready to exit. The menu is easy to use. The display is nice and easy to follow while driving.

Great Garmin with decent 6” screen and responsive software.

This Garmin boots up almost instantly and receives the satellite data much quicker than my older model 1350. Also, the display is better, the touch screen more responsive, and the general feel of the software more sophisticated. All in all, a good unit that is easy to use. And compared to a built-in navigating display in a new car for $1000+ ($2000+?), this is an incredible bargain.

Great buy

This GPS is a steal for the price. The initial update is a little time consuming, but once the maps are downloaded, you’re on your way. The GPS calculates your speed, gas usage and finds the quickest route. The only thing I didn’t like was that the unit didn’t come with a manual, but you can easily download one from the website. All in all, I’m happy with my purchase.

Garmin Nuvi 55LM

First time purchase of a refurbished Garmin. I love it. Great value.

Four Stars

product work good, will do the job.

Five Stars

Excelente

Five Stars

I Love It!

Great value!

For the price you can’t beat it. I bought this for a road trip and it worked out great. 7000+ miles and no complaints.

Easy enough for a 9 yr old to use!

If you don’t have a good smart phone, or are traveling in areas of spotty service - or have poor service in general, having a dedicated GPS Navigator is really, really nice.

Upgrade to Nuvi

This unit replaced an older, smaller version Nuvi that would lock up when you needed it the most. Many improvements have been made and this unit is larger than the old.