GPS up date?

[Beorn of Ga]

I keep up with HD software updates, but the GPS data is still out of date with many things. The dealer location has sent me to non existing dealer locations on several occasions. Completely wrong locations for a selected place of business. This is beside the operation of the GPS is a lot more complicated than necessary. Wish I could convert the GPS to Garmin software.

Any suggestions?

[ISP-FL]

You would think they could at least get their dealer locations right. My selling dealer had been in their new building probably 2 years when I bought my 2016 and the mapping still has their old address.

The first time I went through this was with a new 2012 Ford Explorer. New updates came out for the mapping at a stiff price from Ford. I pulled out my trusty Garmin with free lifetime updates and stuck it back on the windshield. Before I pay Harley a couple hundred to update my mapping I will buy a mount and start running aftermarket GPS on the handlebars.

[Sully]

Yep, I use a Ram mounted Garmin GPS along with my XM Radio. Wouldn't leave home without them.

[GARYD]

I keep up with HD software updates, but the GPS data is still out of date with many things. The dealer location has sent me to non existing dealer locations on several occasions. Completely wrong locations for a selected place of business. This is beside the operation of the GPS is a lot more complicated than necessary. Wish I could convert the GPS to Garmin software.

Any suggestions?

My god. After reading this, I thought I just wrote it.

Thank god I kept my Garmin. I could write 2 pages on the crap the H-D unit has - or doesn't have. Why Harley didn't go with Garmin

(the leader in GPS) instead of some cockamamy foreign company that knows nothing about motorcycles, is beyond me - absolutely STUPID!!!

I like it that I can take the Zumo into my motel room to update my route if needed instead of sitting in the boiling heat or a thunderstorm.

I bought another Zumo last week. I was going to buy the new H-D Zumo but it didn't come with free lifetime map updates so I bough it on Revzilla for the same price with lifetime updates. Another loss for Harley. The only thing Harley's has going for it is that their unit will play through the radio....and it has the dealers locations=hahahahah.

[mirider]

Interesting experience with my Nav unit yesterday. Coming to lower Michigan from the upper peninsula, the unit kept routing me west then down into Wisconsin to take the ferry across Lake Michigan. It even did this when I was at the Mackinaw Bridge.......weird.

[2006gold]

Read an article not long ago listing items not to purchase on a new car. GPS was one, saying a cell phone would always be more accurate and up to date. Don't know myself, but with all the construction going on around my area, road and otherwise, nothing could keep up with the changes.

[dmillsr3]

Read an article not long ago listing items not to purchase on a new car. GPS was one, saying a cell phone would always be more accurate and up to date. Don't know myself, but with all the construction going on around my area, road and otherwise, nothing could keep up with the changes.

GPS from the phone is great when you have cellular coverage. Coverage is getting better but there are still large gaps in coverage "out west."

I like my Zumo 350 and with the Quick Trip App and Base Camp, trips are easy to share with your group.

[ray6576]

I just did my first and maybe my last update to the Nav system on my Tri-Glide. This was in May and took the wife on a bike vacation to Jonesboro, TN. I used Basecamp to plan some rides and on atleast on the Nav unit tried to send my on a road that did not exist. I will be taking my Garmin on our next vacation to Northern Georgia. I have found that the Nav unit on the bike is ok for point to point but not useful for route planning at all. I think that when you load a planned route into the GPS somehow it recalculates it and makes changes to it. Glad I kept my Garmin.

[Beorn of Ga]

I contacted HD Customer Service in Milwaukee (after being on hold for 15 min) about any scheduled GPS updates in the works. The lady (?) thold me that no plans were being scheduled for a GPS map / location update. She said she could send me to a department that worked with customer complaints, then I was disconnected. I didn't bothercalling back.​

[ScottUSN]

The latest Naviextras (GPS) update is: NA-My2017. If you decide to get the update, it will cost you about $150.00. My '15 Triglide came with NA-My2014 and I updated to NA-My2016 last year. I didn't notice any changes, but I'll probably do the update again before I head out for Sturgis.

Scott Smith

[nucseal]

The HD GPS BOOMBOX is a piece of crap. All wayward points have to be restarted to the next wayward point. I put my Garmin 590LM on my trike. Have to use Bluetooth or wired headset to hear the commands. Since I play Pandora through the Garmin and use Bluetooth headsets, its not a problem. If you want a Garmin to play through the BOOMBOX, you have to buy the HD Zumo Roadtech 665 for it to work. There is no workaround that truly works. HD proprietary issue, I have tired every techie way I could without results. There is a proprietary signal that HD Zumo Roadtech 665 sends to the BOOMBOX, for it drop the music and send the commands.

Nuc

[consitter]

I knew my Harley nav system was a piece of crap the first day. I had it guide me home, and it tried bringing me in through the back side of my street. My street is a dead end.

[Freewheeling Ron]

I knew my Harley nav system was a piece of crap the first day. I had it guide me home, and it tried bringing me in through the back side of my street. My street is a dead end.

Kind of like Google maps. It took me on a few miles of gravel with 2 narrow water crossings to save 4 miles of pavement. Geez. Can't we get a pavement option.

[consitter]

Kind of like Google maps. It took me on a few miles of gravel with 2 narrow water crossings to save 4 miles of pavement. Geez. Can't we get a pavement option.

Hah! There's not even a foot path at the end of my street. I could half understand it if there was.

[GARYD]

I agree 100% with ray. Damn glad I kept my Garmin, I use it 99% for all my long trips.

[oldprowler]

How many really understand and use the Harley GPS? The following is MY experiences and opinions.

I cannot count how many times I have tried and failed. I have tried to enter desired routes via the trike console and failed miserably. Not only is the human/machine interface outmoded it is also clunky and requires too many "button pushes". It only encourages errors and each error seems to result in a do over of the entire process. The one or two times that I have what I believed to be a successful route entered and saved -- was forgotten the next day when I tried to call it up to use.

I have tried the route planner on the HD web site. I never got past the first attempt to load it to the bike. The results were errors upon errors. Yes, even the errors had errors according to the GPS.

[ray6576]

There is a web site https://www.lawabidingbiker.com/ there are free and pay to watch videos about the Boom Box. I found them to be quite useful in understanding how to use it's features. They also have one on how to use the ride planer and it does work but not easily. I would like to add that you have to be careful when loading a ride plan to the Boom Box because the GPS will make changes to it.