[Az-Geocaching] Garmin repair?

[Bob Renner]

You should definately contact Garmin.  Some time ago
they had a problem with the internal batteries in one
of their models (I'm not sure if it was the 12XL or
not), and they were repairing all of them even if they
were out of warrenty.  It's worth an email to find
out.

Bob Renner


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>  On Behalf Of Scott
> Sparks
> Sent:	Monday, June 16, 2003 2:16 PM
> To:	az-geocaching@listserv.azgeocaching.com
> Subject:	[Az-Geocaching] Garmin repair?
> 
> Does anyone know of a local shop that can repair a
> Garmin 12XL GPS
> reciever?  Mine has been giving me fits lately.  It
> keeps losing all
> it's data (i.e. all the waypoints and routes that I
> painstakingly enter)
> when I turn the unit on. I get error messages like
> "ALL DATA LOST"  and
> "MEM BAT LOW."  I believe the unit has an internal
> lithium battery it
> uses to power the volatile memory (so the data isn't
> lost when you
> change the main batteries) but I can see no easy way
> to open the unit to
> replace the internal battery.   The unit is more
> than two years old so
> warranty repair is out of the question.  I'm looking
> for a local shop
> that can do the repair so I don't have to ship it
> off for God knows how
> long.  Or, has anyone had the exact same repair done
> and how much did it
> cost you to ship it back to Garmin to have it
> repaired?  Somebody at the
> event cache Saturday told me it cost $70 to ship
> theirs back for repair
> but that's about half the cost of a new unit.  It's
> also about twice as
> much as this type of repair ought to cost.  I could
> do it myself if I
> could get the case open without destroying it.  Any
> thoughts or inputs?
> 
> -- Team Sprocket
> 
>
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