Quest Question....

[Dave T]

Hi there,
From a bit of reading in here, it seems that there are two versions of the Quest 1. A European one with ~243mb memory, and US one with about half of that. So.... when buying used, how do you tell one from t'other?
Answers on a postcard please. (Or posted below if you prefer!).
Thanks as always,
Dave.

 

[Bumpkin]

Hi there,
From a bit of reading in here, it seems that there are two versions of the Quest 1. A European one with ~243mb memory, and US one with about half of that. So.... when buying used, how do you tell one from t'other?
Answers on a postcard please. (Or posted below if you prefer!).
Thanks as always,
Dave.

Hold down the OK button whilst pressing the power button to power the unit up. This will enter a diagnostic screen. At the bottom of the first page it will tell you which basemap is installed, this should read as 'Atlantic Autoroute' followed by a version number (1.0 in my case) for the European version. This has the full 243MB of free memory. If it reads, ISTR, 'Pacific Autoroute' then that'll be a US 115MB model.

You can use the page key (two overlapping rectangles) to go through the other diagnostic screens if you like, not much apart from pretty patterns though. Turn the unit off and on again use as normal.

 

[Bumpkin]

Alternatively zoom out until you can see a clustered group of rectangles (300m. on the scale should suffice), then traverse the cursor to an area within Europe outside of those rectangles (they're the currently loaded map tiles). Now zoom in to a populated area and you should start to see some roads. If you don't zoom all the way out to 500m. and traverse over to the States and zoom in on a city again. Where there are roads shown outside of the loaded mapping you'll be seeing the base map. Roads in Europe = Atlantic Basemap = 243MB of memory, Roads in USA = Americas Basemap* = 115MB of memory.

* I got it wrong in my previous post, the US and South America has it's own basemap (W180 to W30 Longitude, S60 to N75 Latitude). The Pacific basemap covers Asia, Australia, and Oceania (E60 to E180 Longitude, S60 to N75 Latitude)

 

[Dave T]

Bumpkin,
Ta v. much!!!
Dave.

 

[Bumpkin]

Bumpkin,
Ta v. much!!!

No problem.

The most important thing to look out for when buying a Garmin unit second-hand is the yellow slip of paper with the unlock code, without this you'll practically just be buying a paperweight.

It's also worth asking the previous owner to advise Garmin that he has sold the unit to you to allow you to register with them for future mapping updates.