I've had this Garmin Zumo 550 GPS receiver for over 10,000 miles on my BMW R1200GS motorcycle. I dropped it on asphalt from about 4 feet sometime during the first few thousand miles - all it got is some scratches on the plastic - the screen is fine, and it still works fine. I've had it in blistering heat for hours (highway 50 through Nevada in June), and I've had it in thundershowers so thick, that I could barely see the taillights in front of me. It worked through all of that without any problems. Now I decided to see if it's really waterproof. Garmin says that it's waterproof to IPX7, so I submerged it in the kitchen sink to test that. Here's a video:
As you can see, it still works. I do have a few complaints about it - sometimes it'll take a minute to draw the map after turning it on or after it loses satellites - it seems that it won't draw anything at all, instead of just drawing the last position. My other complaint is that the screen is a little small and the resolution could be higher. I may just go back to using the Garmin GPSMap 378 that I used before.
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